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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Credit investors often talk in euphemisms. The safest bonds, with the highest credit ratings and hence the lowest yields, are almost always referred to as “high-grade" rather than “low-yield".

Zomato, Paytm, Jio Financial, and 52 other companies will be in focus on Friday after the leading exchange, BSE, revised the circuit limits. Other major names include LIC, Adani Total, Angel One, DMart, Cyient, PB Fintech, Union Bank of India, IRB Infrastructure, Oil India, Indian Bank, and JSW Energy. The price band limits have been adjusted to 10% for 46 stocks, including prominent names like Zomato, YES Bank, Varun Beverages, Tata Elxsi, Paytm, Oil India, Nykaa, and NCC. Additionally, four stocks will now have a 5% circuit limit, while five others will see their limits revised to 2%.

buy call on LTIMindtree with a target price of Rs 7,400. The current market price of LTIMindtree is Rs 6182.7. LTIMindtree, incorporated in 1996, is a Large Cap company with a market cap of Rs 183268.24 crore, operating in IT Software sector. LTIMindtree's key products/revenue segments include Software Development Charges & Other Services for the year ending 31-Mar-2023.

debt levels, a handful of India's top 500 companies managed to deliver stellar returns to investors in the current fiscal year. An analysis by ETMarkets showed that 16 companies, which saw their debt-to-equity ratios increase in FY24, still outperformed, offering returns above 50% up to 114%. Rising debt levels aren’t always a red flag, especially when companies maintain a safe debt-to-equity (D/E) ratio. Most of these 18 outperformers have a D/E ratio around or below 1, which is seen as healthy by market participants.

iron and steelmaking processes. The development is significant as the Maharatna firm remains committed to transforming traditional iron and steelmaking practices by adopting advanced, sustainable technologies, the company said in a statement. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by SAIL with John Cockerill India Ltd (JCIL), it added.

NSE SME platform on Friday. Ahead of the listing, the company's shares were trading and had no GMP in the grey market. This implies a flat to negative premium on debut. However, it is important to note that grey market premiums are just an indicator as to how the company's shares are stacked up in the unlisted market and are subject to change rapidly.

Australia has imposed a sweeping ban on social media for children under 16, one of the world's most comprehensive measures aimed at safeguarding young people from potential hazards online. But many details were still unclear, such as how it will be enforced and what platforms will be covered. After sailing through Parliament's lower house on Wednesday, the bill passed the Senate on Thursday with bipartisan support. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said that it puts Australia at the vanguard of efforts to protect the mental health and well-being of children from the detrimental effects of social media, such as online hate or bullying. The law, he has said, puts the onus on social media platforms to take «reasonable steps» to prevent anyone under 16 from having an account. Corporations could be fined up to 49.5 million Australian dollars (about $32 million) for «systemic» failures to implement age requirements.

Mayuresh Joshi, Head Equity, Marketsmith India, says valuations of IT stocks may be expensive but they continue holding a few stocks like Coforge, Infosys, Persistent in their global portfolios. Also, within the Adani group, Adani Ports is one stock that investors can keep on the watch list. The IT sector is taking quite a bit of beating today. Infosys is down 3.5%. L&T Tech is down over 3%. HCL Tech, Tech Mahindra have run up quite a bit in the last three to four months, but what is the expectation from hereon on IT? Mayuresh Joshi: Two things are happening here. One, from a results perspective, a large part of the midcap IT basket has performed really well. So, even on a higher base, the expectation in terms of how revenue growth will be in constant currency terms was very stable. The margins were very stable and the commentaries were surprisingly very robust over the next few months and quarters as well.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Every Friday, Plain Facts publishes a compilation of data-based insights, with easy-to-read charts, to help you delve deeper into the stories reported by Mint in the week gone by. Foreign investors have sold over ₹2 trillion worth of shares in this fiscal year so far.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The relief rally fizzled out sooner than expected. The heaviest selling by foreign investors in more than three weeks, amid rising US bond yields and a strengthening dollar, brought the markets crashing more than 1.5% on Thursday, leaving investors poorer by ₹1.55 trillion.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) are set to witness a scramble for talent beginning Sunday, as some of the world's top artificial intelligence and algo trading firms arrive to snap up their best and brightest. Some of the top offers this year are close to a couple of crores, placement cell executives said, as the older IITs get ready to kick off their annual placement season.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Information technology services companies including LTIMindtree Ltd, Coforge Ltd, Sonata Software Ltd, and Happiest Minds Technologies Ltd do not traditionally provide full-year revenue guidance, but that has not stopped them from setting aspirational revenue goals. Analysts say such targets are aimed at investors.

President-elect Donald Trump declared a win on stopping illegal immigration through Mexico on Wednesday after talking with that country’s leader. But Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum suggested Mexico was already doing its part and had no interest in closing its borders.

The New Mexico Court of Appeals has upheld state regulations aimed at cracking down on emissions from the oil and natural gas industry

Cyber Monday 2024 is shaping up to be a highlight of the year for online shoppers. This much-anticipated event offers exclusive online discounts, continuing the shopping frenzy initiated on Black Friday. With just days to go, consumers are gearing up for another round of incredible deals.

Canada’s biggest credit union outside of Quebec, Vancity, has historically marketed itself as being “Main Street, not Wall Street” — member-owned, values-led and locally focused.

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Renters rejoice, relief may be on the way.

America, marking the beginning of Christmas shopping. Like Halloween and Thanksgiving, it's catching on in India, providing producers and retailers another calendar event to move the needle in lifestyle consumption. While nowhere close to Diwali sales, the bargain hunt phenom helps global brands to speed up premiumisation.

In a written reply in Rajya Sabha on the question of Congress MP Neeraj Dangi, MoS Singh informed that the fee for international student visas was increased by the Government of Australia from AUD 710 to AUD 1600 with effect from July 1, 2024. He acknowledged that the steep increase is expected to create financial difficulties for Indian students aspiring to study in Australia.