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JPMorgan quant strategists have identified “a plethora of similarities” between the current rally in US stocks and the dot-com bubble, despite common dismissals of such parallels due to the distinct «irrational exuberance» of the latter period.

NEW DELHI : The Union government is discussing a proposal for state-run cooperatives to procure maize, or corn, from farmers from the next Rabi season to meet its ambitious ethanol-blended fuel target, a top official said. If the proposal goes through, the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (Nafed) and the National Cooperative Consumers’ Federation Of India Ltd (NCCF) will procure maize from farmers at state-set guaranteed prices, Union food and public distribution secretary Sanjeev Chopra told Mint in an interview. Currently, biofuels such as ethanol are made primarily from sugarcane and grains such as rice and maize.

The flow of money moving across borders is rebounding from a record low as investors prepare for interest-rate cuts globally, according to the world’s largest custodian bank.

Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs. So are Macy’s and Wayfair. But one retail worker is still in high demand: Walmart superstore manager.

Companies are having to get their workforces up to speed on artificial intelligence, and fast. And it’s looking like AI itself may be teaching the class. Online teaching provider Coursera’s training includes an AI-powered chatbot that can provide personal feedback to students.

ALSO READ: Wall Street week ahead: Investors’ major focus on Fed rate decision, big tech earnings The US central bank is widely expected to keep interest rates unchanged, but investors and traders will look for signals from the Fed meeting outcome and chairman Jerome Powell’s press conference whether the central bank will start cutting interest rates at its next monetary policy meet in March. On Friday, the S&P 500 slipped 3.19 points, or 0.1 per cent, to 4,890.97. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 60.30, or 0.2 per cent, to 38,109.43.

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foreign interference program.The Immigration and Refugee Board ruled that Jing Zhang had worked for the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office (OCAO), which it said conducts espionage in Canada.While immigration officials did not argue that Zhang committed espionage, the Refugee Board found that as an 11-year OCAO employee, she had contributed to its efforts to pressure the Chinese diaspora.According to the 32-page decision, the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) uses the OCAO to silence dissent overseas.The organization “was and remains involved in espionage against the PRC‘s targeted individuals and groups in Canada,” the IRB added.“The OCAO conducting espionage, surveillance or covert monitoring of Chinese and ethnic Chinese dissidents or minorities in Canada is against Canada, and contrary to its security interests.”The decision to deport Zhang for security reasons was handed down on Aug.

₹1.10 trillion, was now controlled by the state. How are these two events connected? Finance Commissions and their work might seem remote from the concerns of most citizens, but in fact they are highly contentious. Most of the controversy centres around how taxes are shared with states, and how certain types of taxes, such as surcharges and cesses, are kept out of the shareable tax pool.

Punjab National Bank (PNB) on Monday approved the sale of shares to raise ₹7,500 crore of funds through Qualified Institutions Placement (QIP)/Follow-on Public Offer (FPO) during 2024-25. The decision in this respect was taken in a meeting held on January 29.

The Fed's monetary policy meeting this week is being closely watched by global markets as macroeconomic data keeps undermining the need for the US central bank to start lowering rates in the first semester of the year already.

Heartbreak High," is gearing up for a second season, set to premiere on April 11th, 2024. Following its successful debut in September 2022, the series has managed to capture audiences globally, and as anticipation builds for the upcoming season, here's a comprehensive look at what we know so far.

Gold and silver kicked off the new week on the front foot, with the former rising above $2030 and the latter reaching $23.00 by early European trade.

LONDON (Reuters) — IKEA is investing in price cuts on some products across a range of countries, including Belgium, Canada and India, as the furniture retailer aims to unwind increases it introduced in 2022.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday accused the Opposition BJP and JDS of attempting to provoke people of Mandya district over the removal of a saffron flag (Hanuman Dwaj) with an eye on the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. He hit out at former CM HD Kumaraswamy saying the JDS leader participating in the protests betrayed his intentions to exploit the issue politically. He also targeted BJP leader R Ashoka and said the two leaders were playing up people against the government because of the LS polls. The district administration would not have removed the flag if the people who hoisted it had adhered to the conditions that came with the permission, the CM told the media, and added that there was no government’s failure in this. Kumaraswamy, being a former CM, had resorted to telling lies and had become a BJP spokesperson while claiming to represent a secular party, he said. The CM said he was also a Hindu who loved people of all religions as he believed in the Constitution and in the values of co-existence and tolerance. Deputy CM DK Shivakumar also endorsed the CM’s views saying the BJP was instigating people to establish its political base in Mandya.

'Echo' was assumed to be a single-season show when it was first announced. After all of its five episodes were released on the streaming services on Tuesday, January 9 at 9 p.m. ET., there has been no word on its continuation. In this backdrop, the Director of Photography said on whether Season 2 is in the works for Alaqua Cox’s Maya Lopez. Talking to 'Direct', Echo cinematographer Kira Kelly shared her thoughts on a possible Season 2 and working with the characters from Netflix’s Daredevil.

Vodafone Idea Ltd on Monday reported that it has managed to trim its consolidated net loss to Rs 6,986 crore in the quarter ended December, from Rs 7,990 crore a year ago, and Rs 8,738 crore a quarter ago. Consolidated revenue from operations rose a marginal 0.6% year-on-year (YoY) to Rs 10,673 crore, but it declined 0.4% sequentially.

budget Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present on February 1. From cutting down subsidies to slowing down capital expenditure to control fiscal deficit to targeting different voter groups with welfare measures, Amid all the expectations and demands from the budget and speculation and expert commentary about what all the budget might contain, what Sitharaman herself has been saying recently, not necessarily related to the budget, can yield good pointers to the direction of the upcoming budget.

The NSE Nifty index ended the session 385.0 points up at 21737.6, while BSE Sensex rose 1240.9 points to 71941.57. In the Nifty index, Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd.(up 7.89 per cent), Reliance Industries Ltd.(up 7.02 per cent), Coal India Ltd.(up 6.01 per cent), Adani Enterprises Ltd.(up 5.92 per cent) and Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd.(up 4.40 per cent) stood among the top gainers.

Nifty Bank bounced back on Monday and rose more than 500 points to reclaim 45,000. The Nifty Bank rose 576 points to close at 45,442. The Nifty50 rallied 387 points to close at 21,739. The rally in the Nifty Bank was led by gains in IDFC First Bank, Bank of Baroda, Kotak Mahindra Bank, PNB, and Federal Bank while some profit-taking was seen in AU Small Finance Bank. The Nifty Bank bounced back after retesting 200-DMA on the daily charts last week and the momentum continued in the Interim Budget week as well. If the momentum continues, the next target is seen around 46,000, suggest experts. “Bank Nifty is in the process of retracing the fall it has witnessed from 48,300 – 44,500 and hence the pullback can continue till 46,000 – 46,200 from a short-term perspective,” Jatin Gedia – Technical Research Analyst at Sharekhan by BNP Paribas, said. “On the downside 45,110 is the crucial support from a short-term perspective,” he added.

skilling into education curriculum and upskilling a large chunk of the existing workforce into future-relevant skills on the back of a transformative journey in skill development in India in the last decade. According to the report, released on Monday, the push to mass skilling since 2014 has begun to pay dividends. «The employable percentage of final-year and pre-final-year students increased from 33.9% in 2014 to 51.3% in 2024,» it said citing the findings of the online Wheebox National Employability Test.