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05.02 / 11:13

UPS Progressive Entertainment Strategy wellness love Relationships When your loved one has a new loved one (and it’s AI)

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It started as an innocent hobby. To entertain and distract herself while going through a divorce, Erika Acheson used Anthropic’s Claude to build a bot that generates images based on prompts from her and her friends.

05.02 / 11:13

markets UPS ETF Software Research Trade reports How the AI trade went from market savior to saboteur

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Artificial intelligence may still be in its infancy, but this mainstay of the stock market rally now has investors worried it will be its downfall. Investors suddenly see numerous areas of tech and other sectors are vulnerable to AI and its big funding needs, leading them to look elsewhere.

05.02 / 11:13

markets UPS Citizens Election wellness country MGNREGA to VB-G RAM G: The overhaul of India’s rural job guarantee needs field trials before its full rollout

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The recent budget marks a shift in India’s approach to short-term state-backed employment support. It has reduced funds for the scheme under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which is expected to be phased out, to ₹30,000 crore from last year’s spending of ₹88,000 crore and allocated over ₹95,000 crore to the new Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission-Gramin (VB-G RAM G) scheme that will replace it.

05.02 / 09:53

markets UPS economy wellness President country Indonesia is tightening capital controls and other emerging markets could follow suit

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Back in the day, when a country’s currency was under pressure, the worst thing it could do was impose capital controls. Stopping money from leaving might work temporarily, but it would cause investors to lose faith and shut the country out of financial markets in the long run.

05.02 / 09:53

UPS Gap Sustainability Trade reports Commentary Pidilite’s upbeat growth prospects come with expensive valuations

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The stock of Fevicol-maker Pidilite Industries Ltd is 7% away from its 52-week high of ₹1,574.95 seen in September. Pidilite's decent December quarter (Q3FY26) result and upbeat management commentary bridged the gap to some extent, with the stock up around 3% in the last two trading sessions.

05.02 / 08:35

Blockchain UPS Provident Digital Trade Bitcoin Inside The great crypto reckoning: Wake up and get real about this class of pseudo assets

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A year ago, the most pro-crypto president in US history had just returned to power after pandering to clueless retail crypto investors and receiving massive financial backing from semi-corrupt crypto insiders. Donald Trump’s second coming was supposed to be a new dawn for crypto, leading various self-dealing evangelists to predict that Bitcoin would become ‘digital gold,’ reaching at least $200,000 by the end of 2025.

05.02 / 08:01

UPS Southern Boxing wellness film audience stars Has southern cinema fallen prey to Bollywood’s high ticket pricing?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Unreasonably high ticket pricing, long seen as a tactic used largely by Bollywood film-makers to bolster openings, has now crept into southern cinema, with disappointing results. According to media consulting firm Ormax, footfall in Telugu cinema declined to 181 million in 2025, from 213 million in 2024 and 242 million in 2023.

05.02 / 03:41

markets UPS security social reports International Gold at record highs but this stock is near its 52-week low

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In 2024, gold delivered 20% gain compared with the Nifty's 8.7% gain. In 2025, the upward momentum continued with gold rising 78% while the Nifty was 10.5%.

05.02 / 02:15

markets UPS Gap Strategy economy Align stage High-level committee on banking: What it should focus on to strengthen India’s financial system

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the formation of a “high-level committee" on banking in her budget speech for 2026-27. While she offered no details, the FM did say that this panel would be tasked with reviewing the banking sector and aligning it with India’s next phase of growth.

05.02 / 02:15

COST UPS Gap Trade show Mint Quick Edit | India-China trade swelled in 2025: Will this remain a largely one-way story?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For all the talk about either restraining or rebalancing trade with China, India’s dealings with it are rising. In 2025, trade reached a record $155.6 billion, up 12%, according to Chinese ambassador Xu Feihong.

05.02 / 02:15

UPS Platform security Avid Research performer Interviews The world’s first viral AI assistant has arrived, and things are getting weird

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Avid futurists have promised the world AI assistants for years. Now, a real one has finally arrived, and things got weird really fast.

05.02 / 01:29

markets UPS economy wellness Trade country Can emerging markets’ stellar run continue?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For much of the past 20 years emerging markets (EMs) have seemed doomed never to emerge. The world’s up-and-coming economies were supposed to offer daredevil investors a shot at outsize returns: the chance to profit from the superior growth of middle-income countries as they caught up with rich ones.

05.02 / 00:39

markets UPS Citi Manufacturing Platform hospital reports How startups are turning India’s home interiors into a DIY marketplace

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI: As Indian homeowners become more involved in choosing how their homes look and what goes into them, investors are beginning to back startups that focus not on designing entire interiors, but on helping consumers directly discover and buy materials, bypassing traditional interior designers and full-stack execution firms. Early-stage investors see the materials-led interiors segment as a large, under-utilized opportunity, estimated at about $14 billion, with rising consumer spend and no clear market leader.

05.02 / 00:39

markets UPS FIVE Manufacturing Mobile electronic guidelines Chip(per) ambitions: Electronics majors weigh semiconductor leap on policy push

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: India’s top listed electronics manufacturers Syrma SGS and Dixon Technologies are reassessing plans to enter semiconductor and chip component manufacturing after the Union budget for 2026-27 announced India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) 2.0, a new incentives programme aimed at building deeper chip capabilities. The second mission, expected to follow the ₹76,000 crore chip incentive scheme launched five years ago, will focus on developing a more comprehensive semiconductor components ecosystem.

05.02 / 00:39

UPS Booking CEO Research Trade 2020 reports Why Vinay Tonse's final stint at SBI matters most as Yes Bank's new CEO

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: When Vinay M. Tonse takes over the reins of Yes Bank Ltd, the private lender would be significantly different in character and strength from where it was about six years ago.

04.02 / 16:59

UPS Platform security Pool Trade information NSDL glitch stalls trade settlement for several investors

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Several investors who initiated trades on Tuesday were yet to get their shares or funds credited to their accounts by Wednesday night due to a settlement glitch between India’s top two depositories. The problem cropped up at National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL), but impacted the entire settlement process on Wednesday, four brokers told Mint.

04.02 / 14:17

UPS Research Bitcoin performer stage Why silver’s monstrous rally may be a head fake

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Silver is staging a spectacular recovery, leaving behind gold, stocks, Treasuries, and Bitcoin. But before chasing the rally, investors should take note of its past.

04.02 / 14:17

UPS Discover President rights Iran plays hardball with the US to throw it off balance

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Iran’s abandonment of a planned meeting with U.S. and regional officials in Turkey in hopes of holding more narrowly defined talks in Oman is right out of the regime’s hardball playbook—a last-minute curveball aimed at leaving everyone else off balance.

04.02 / 14:17

markets UPS CEO Strategy Food President International Pizza Hut reset in focus as Devyani International appoints new CEO

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. BENGALURU : Quick service restaurant (QSR) operator Devyani International Ltd is planning to turn around its loss-making Pizza Hut business, which has proven to be an Achilles’ heel for the company over several quarters. Manish Dawar, the incoming president and chief executive, said the company will add zero net new Pizza Hut outlets in calendar 2025 and 2026, shifting attention instead to fixing the fundamentals.

04.02 / 12:11

markets UPS IPO Enterprise wellness performer reports Today, the AI story is not well understood in the Indian market: Fractal CEO

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : Squeezed out on the valuation Fractal Analytics sought for the initial public offering (IPO), its founder feels that public market investors have yet to fully understand the AI sector. The management is citing investor scepticism towards AI complexity and the need for market education as it prepares for a market debut at a lower valuation.

04.02 / 11:51

UPS ETF Extreme wellness Experts performer International How multi-asset funds diversify portfolio, smoothen swings

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. After a blistering rally over the past year, gold and silver prices are beginning to see sharp corrections. Gold ETFs have fallen over 12% since 29 January, and silver ETFs have slumped over 24% as of 4 February.

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