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Read the full story here.)Shares of Torrent Pharmaceuticals, Cochin Shipyard, Engineers India, Great Eastern Shipping, Goodyear India, Quess Corp, Automobile Corporation Of Goa, Banaras Beads, Carborundum Universal, Clean Science and Technology, among othres will be in focus when the stock market opens on Monday, February 12. (Read the full story here.)After witnessing a sharp sell-off on Thursday, the Indian stock market shifted into a sustainable upside bounce from the lows and closed higher on Friday.

Buy or sell stocks for today: After witnessing a sharp sell-off on Thursday, the Indian stock market shifted into a sustainable upside bounce from the lows and closed higher on Friday. The Nifty 50 index gained 64 points and closed at the 21,782 level, the BSE Sensex went up 167 points and closed at the 71,595 mark while the Nifty Bank index shot up 622 points and finished at the 45,634 level.

kiwi dollars were subdued in holiday thinned trade on Monday, while traders looked ahead to a central bank speech in New Zealand that could make or break market bets for another hike given the huge shift in market pricing last week. Most of Asia including China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam and Malaysia are closed for holidays.

Kuwait, seven of the eight Indian navy veterans who were sentenced to death on 'espionage' charges, heaped praise on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying they wouldn't have been freed had it for the sustained diplomatic efforts at his behest to secure their release. Their death sentence was later commuted to an extended prison term following sustained diplomatic interventions and legal assistance from New Delhi. Relieved to finally walk free, the seven former Navy officers raised chants of 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' after arriving at the Delhi airport in the early hours of Monday.

Oil prices fell in early Asian trade on Monday after Israel said it had «concluded» a series of strikes in southern Gaza, slightly easing concerns about supply from the Middle East. Brent crude futures were down 43 cents, or 0.5%, at $81.76 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures were 46 cents, or 0.6% lower, at $76.38 a barrel at 0135 GMT.

By Riju Mehta & Rohit Shah If you are planning on buying a car this year and your budget is above Rs 40 lakh, then here are five exciting new launches you should know. ET Wealth and Cardekho.com are here to help you with your car buying decision with the line-up of the most-awaited launches in 2024.

Walt Disney Co and Reliance Industries (RIL) are in the last leg of negotiations to finalise their mega stock-and-cash merger to create India’s largest media and entertainment business, said people in the know. Under the terms of the talks, Viacom18 looks set to be the single largest shareholder, with 42-45% in the combined entity, they said. Parent RIL is expected to invest up to $1.5 billion cash in the new entity and pick up a stake directly as well. As a group, Mukesh Ambani-led RIL will own 60%, with Walt Disney owning the remaining 40%.

By Riju Mehta & Rohit Shah Tata Punch EV TATA HAS INTRODUCED its first offering on its new Acti.EV platform. Punch EV is an all-electric version featuring a refreshed fascia to match Nexon’s styling. Other exterior revisions include updated tail lights and aerodynamically designed alloy wheels. Changes to the cabin include a two-spoke steering wheel, revised dashboard layout, and a new touch-enabled climate control panel. It gets a 10.25-inch touchscreen, 10.25-inch digital driver’s display, ventilated front seats, six airbags, and a 360 degree camera. Safety tech includes electronic stability control and an electronic parking brake with auto-hold.

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accounts were written. The money was kept in separate paper envelopes, marked as milk, kirana, vegetables, and such. At the start of the month, salary was allocated to these various covers. Everyday accounts were written in the notebook. Mom and dad did not go to sleep before tallying all balances. Despite the daily reinforcement, that habit died with them. None of us kept track of our daily accounts. Maybe we wanted to rebel and be different. Or, perhaps, we were relatively more prosperous and did not have to keep accounts. Or, maybe, it was a bit of both. We were the generation that had positive cash balances in the bank before the next salary arrived. Our parents struggled to pull through the last week of the month. They needed tight control on expenses on an everyday basis. We could relax and care about large-ticket items, and not sweat over small details. However, we were living in denial about our finances, and couldn’t be bothered by the financial crunch that hit us every now and then. Spend when you have the money, stay at home when you don’t, was the overall rule. Those were the days when personal loans and credit cards were not widely available in the retail market. We seemed content with the yoyo state of our household finances, but did not write accounts or make budgets. Many of our friends did not either.

investors continue to pile on to this runaway train. But the market watchdog Sebi is sniffing some potential for trouble brewing within this heated space. As per reports, it has called for extensive stress tests of all mid-cap and small-cap equity funds. Essentially, the regulator wants to ascertain whether mid-cap and smallcap funds will be able to withstand sudden outflows in case of steep correction in stock prices, without incurring heavy impact cost.

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Coal India, ONGC, Honasa Consumer, Divi's Labs among others will be in focus due to corporate results and various other developments. Coal India, HAL, NHPC, SAIL Shares of Coal India, HAL, NHPC, SAIL will be in focus as the companies will announce their third quarter results today.

Zomato last week indicated restaurant additions on its platform as a significant contributor to the 27% year-on-year growth in the gross order value (GOV) at its food-delivery business, considering that the company is witnessing a broader slowdown in discretionary spending. A look at Zomato's total number of food-delivery restaurant partners over the last eight quarters shows that the Gurugram-based company has stepped up onboarding of new restaurants on the platform.

Satya Nadella, chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation. Emphasising the role of artificial intelligence in driving increased productivity, the Hyderabad-born technocrat said it gives him “tremendous optimism” that it (AI) will further accelerate India’s growth as it races towards its goal of becoming a developed nation by 2047. “At the end of the day, what's the difference between being a developed country and a developing country? It’s just the rate of growth over long periods of time,” 56-year old Nadella told ET in an interview, last week. He cited the example of the digital public goods, which when “scaffolded or daisy-chained with a large language model” can create several innovative solutions for various sectors of the economy.

NEW DELHI : The final report on farm laws by a government-appointed committee will only be ready in a few months, said a member of the panel, as farmers geared up for a protest this week to press long-standing demands over MSP and other farm-related issues. The member who did not wish to be named said the committee that was constituted two years ago to address farmers’ grievances, including on minimum support prices (MSP), is trying to forge a consensus at the earliest. Because of the delay, farmers from Punjab and Haryana are planning to march to Delhi on Tuesday.

(Reuters) — Shares of New Zealand's SkyCity Entertainment slumped the most in nearly two months after the casino operator said its ‍Skycity Casino Management Ltd (SCML) unit will face a proposed lawsuit for alleged breaches anti-money laundering laws.

Stocks on Wall Street closed higher on Friday to notch another winning week as the S&P 500 ended above the key 5,000-point level for the first time ever amid an ongoing rally in mega-cap tech shares.

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Tornado warning for southeastern Texas, encompassing areas like Houston. The watch indicates the potential for a couple of tornadoes, along with the risk of large hail and destructive winds, as per a Fox report. Severe thunderstorms are forecasted to occur from southeastern Texas to parts of the lower Mississippi Valley and central Gulf Coast states on Sunday. These storms bring the possibility of large hail, damaging wind gusts, and tornadoes as potential threats, the report says.