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Asian shares mostly rose after U.S. stocks closed broadly higher with gains in Big Tech companies offsetting a skid in oil-and-gas stocks

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Grammy award winning singer Erykah Badu was honored with the “fashion icon” award at the 2024 Council of Fashion Designers of America fashion awards Monday night

Suzlon Energy stock will be in focus on Tuesday after the company reported a 96% jump in its September quarter consolidated net profit at Rs 201 crore versus Rs 102 crore reported by it in the year ago period. Company's revenue from operations during the quarter stood at Rs 2,093 crore which was up 48% over Rs 1,417 crore reported in the corresponding quarter of the previous financial year.

HDFC Securities has buy call on ICICI Bank with a target price of Rs 1,370. The current market price of ICICI Bank Ltd. is Rs 1294.35. ICICI Bank, incorporated in 1994, is a banking company with a market cap of Rs 884615.36 crore. ICICI Bank's key products/revenue segments include interest & discount on advances & bills, income from investment, interest on balances with RBI and other inter-bank funds and interest for the year ending 31-Mar-2024.

mutual funds invest in treasury bills, commercial papers, certificates of deposits and so on to take care of their liquidity needs. They also invest in corporate bonds, government securities, among others. According to the Sebi mandate, short duration funds can invest in debt instruments which have maturity between one and three years. That means these schemes are meant for short-term investments of up to three years or more. They are somewhat in the middle when it comes to interest rate risk. They are riskier than liquid, ultra short term, and low duration funds. However, they have a lower risk compared to medium duration and long-term funds. Also Read |Best medium to long duration funds to invest in October 2024

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₹1,621 crore from anchor investors. The IPO, valued at ₹5,430 crore, is set to remain open until today (Tuesday, 29 October).

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s reliance on imported crude oil is getting worse. The latest government data shows that the country imported 88.2% of the oil it consumed in the first half of 2024-25, up from 87.6% a year earlier.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Due to a series of events that weren’t supposed to lead me to Diljit Dosanjh’s iconic Dil-Luminati show in Delhi, I went to the concert alone. The evening of the show, my cousins told me they had a spare ticket—but it wasn’t in the same enclosure as them.

Gold prices held steady on Tuesday as investors looked forward to a slew of U.S. economic data for clues about the Federal Reserve's interest rate outlook.

yen languished near a three-month trough on Tuesday as the loss of a parliamentary majority for Japan's ruling coalition in weekend elections raised uncertainty about the nation's political and monetary outlook. Elsewhere, the dollar eased a touch, though remained not too far from its recent high ahead of major U.S. data releases later in the week that could determine the path for Federal Reserve policy.

Oil prices edged up on Tuesday, after a sharp plunge in the previous session, as a U.S. plan to purchase oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve provided support while investors remained focused on developments in the Middle East. Brent crude futures climbed 44 cents, or 0.6%, to $71.86 a barrel by 0025 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was at $67.83 a barrel, up 45 cents, or 0.7%.

Maruti Suzuki will be in focus as the company will report its second quarter results later today. Analysts estimate the will report muted numbers for the July-September 2024 period, mainly due to decline in the volumes. Revenue from operations are likely to remain flat year-on-year, according to an average estimate of four brokerages. Net profit for the quarter is seen falling up to 5% year-on-year, the estimates revealed.

earnings season is underway and as many as 139 companies will announce their quarterly numbers for the July-September 2024 period today. Key results to watch out include that of Maruti, Adani Enterprises, Adani Ports, Cipla, Canara Bank, SBI Cards, Hudco. Apart from the above, Apar Industries, APL Apollo Tubes, BCL Industries, Blue Jet Healthcare, Container Corp, Edelweiss Financial, Force Motors, Goenka Business, Kaka Industries, Vedant Fashions, Star Health and a few others will announce their quarterly results.

US election and key economic data that will set the stage for the next Federal Reserve decision. Shares rose in Sydney while Tokyo stocks were little changed and futures pointed to gains in Hong Kong. US futures were steady after most major groups in the S&P 500 gained at the start of the busiest week for corporate earnings.

«We expect the truncated week to remain sideways amid a mixed Q2 season, monthly FNO expiry and continued selling by FIIs. Key results to watch out for tomorrow will be Maruti Suzuki, Adani Enterprise, Adani Ports, and Cipla amongst others,» said Siddhartha Khemka, Head — Research, Wealth Management, Motilal Oswal.

import quotas to electronic hardware manufacturing companies that can step up domestic production under the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for information technology (IT) hardware, said people with knowledge of the matter. In a meeting with stakeholders last week, government officials asked all companies to provide concrete production plans for the next fiscal year for products such as laptops, tablets, all-in-one personal computers, ultra-small form factor computers, and servers. “The idea is that companies must increase the domestic value addition for their products,” an official said. “All (companies) have been given enough time and we must look for ways in which it (domestic value addition) can be improved without any major business disruptions.”

Quick commerce platforms are seeing a surge in Diwali gift orders as they seek to increase their market share during the festive season. Zomato-owned Blinkit, Swiggy Instamart and General Catalyst-backed Zepto have rolled out features like equated monthly instalments (EMI), postpaid options, 10-minute returns for clothing and footwear, and expanded their inventory with popular festival-related products. The ultra-fast delivery model aided by discounts has been the key driver for these platforms, with a shift toward quick commerce in the last week of festive sales, according to ecommerce consultancy Datum Intelligence. These platforms have created a separate Diwali section on their apps, featuring categories such as puja essentials, Dhanteras items, gifting, home decor, party supplies, fashion, electronics, sweets, and dry fruits.

artificial intelligence (AI) revolution – this was Nvidia founder and chief executiveJensen Huang’s clarion call to India Inc at ET Conversations in Mumbai last Friday. The Indian market is currently dominated by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. But are there any domestic players that are equipped to take on the three global hyperscalers? There are local alternatives, such as E2E, according to Pratik Desai, founder of agricultural AI startup Kissan AI – which uses Azure as the primary cloud provider and AWS as a secondary cloud provider – but they are catching up in terms of cost and integrated services.

The U.S. Treasury Department, seeking to keep the Chinese military from gaining an edge in advanced technologies, issued a rule Monday to restrict and monitor American investments in China in artificial intelligence, computer chips and quantum computing