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From the moment Anant and Radhika were in Jamnagar, the city enveloped them in a festive atmosphere. The airport was decorated with vibrant floral arrangements and traditional banners that added a touch of grandeur to the occasion.

₹45 trillion (if fiscal deficits could make countries rich, then no country would be poor), reversing the shift from revenue spending to capital expenditure (improving productivity requires allocating even more than last year’s high of ₹10 trillion), or crowding out defence and police spending (about ₹8 trillion) with welfarism. The next budget should pray to the one god of formal non-farm jobs with five non-fiscal interventions that will raise the productivity of formal, non-farm employers.

Unit-Linked Insurance Plans (ULIPs) combine insurance and investment. In ULIPs, a portion of your premium goes towards providing insurance coverage and the remaining is invested in market-linked funds.Non-insurance savings options include bank deposits, post office schemes, mutual funds, and stocks. Bank deposits are safe and offer fixed returns.

Sheldon Kimber sees a lucrative opportunity in bottling sunshine. The 46-year-old entrepreneur is installing hundreds of giant batteries the size of shipping containers around sun-soaked Texas and California. The batteries charge up during the day when solar power is abundant.

Gold prices jumped to an all-time peak on Wednesday, driven by mounting hopes of a U.S. interest rate cut in September after recent comments from Federal Reserve officials. Spot gold was up 0.5% at $2,479.75 per ounce, as of 0158 GMT, after hitting a record peak of $2,481.09 earlier in the session. U.S. gold futures gained 0.6% to $2,482.00.

HSBC Holdings Plc said on Wednesday it appointed Georges Elhedery as its group chief executive, with effect from Sept. 2, making him the third CEO in less than eight years for the global lender. Elhedery is the current chief financial officer and will replace outgoing head Noel Quinn in September. Since 2020, Elhedery had been the co-head of the Global Banking and Markets business, the division that houses HSBC's trading and investment banking advisory businesses. Lebanon-born Elhedery, who began his career in banking as a rates trader before joining HSBC in 2005, was named the surprise successor to Ewen Stevenson as CFO in October 2022, just weeks after returning from a sabbatical.

Union budget presentation on July 23, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu is on a two-day visit to Delhi to push for the demands raised by him for his state with central ministers. Naidu, a key ally in the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, met Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday evening. He is slated to meet other Union ministers on Wednesday. At his meeting with Shah, Naidu raised the issue of his state's fiscal condition. Naidu apprised Shah that he will be releasing a white paper on this on Thursday — his government's fourth since assuming power last month. Naidu took to microblogging site X and said, «Today in New Delhi, I met with the Hon'ble Union Home Minister, Shri @AmitShah Ji, to apprise him of the devastating condition of finances that Andhra Pradesh had slipped into over the past five years. I also discussed the findings of the four White Papers released, outlining the staggering debt accumulated between FY 2019-24 that spiralled our State's finances out of control. Economic incompetence, gross mismanagement, and rampant corruption by the previous government have caused irreparable damage to our State.»

retail sales proved to be firmer than expected, but was still soft enough to keep expectations intact for a rate cut from the Federal Reserve this year. U.S. retail sales were unchanged in June, topping expectations of economists polled by Reuters for a decline of 0.3%, as a drop in receipts at auto dealerships was offset by strength elsewhere, a show of consumer resilience that boosts economic growth prospects for the second quarter.

Ola Electric is expected to launch its public offering for subscription in the next few weeks at a discounted valuation of around $4 billion, a decrease of about a fourth from its last private funding round, multiple people aware of the details said. In September 2023, Ola Electric had snagged a value of $5.4 billion when it raised $140 million in a round led by Singapore's Temasek. The proposed listing will be among the largest new-economy IPOs this year, signalling a revival of public market debuts by technology-first companies. Ecommerce firm FirstCry is gearing up to launch its IPO soon while Swiggy has confidentially filed its draft papers with the markets regulator.

ashwagandha go into Catwalk and are brewed over a few months using monk fruit as a sweetener and is produced and bottled in Ahmedabad. A sizable number of companies across India, big and small, including Catwalk, Sober, Sobriety Sips and the bigwigs in the beer industry are now experimenting in creating non and low alcohol spirits, including beer, wine, gin, whisky and others. What's driving this trend is a cohort of drinkers who are now looking to cut down on their consumption.

Read | F&O trading: Sebi to discuss ways to tighten the screws on retail speculation In addition to their net short index futures positions, client is cumulatively net short index call options by 594,605 contracts and index put options by 375,215 contracts. FIIs, along with proprietary traders, have net purchased index calls sold by client, while the former has purchased index puts sold by client and prop traders, data shows.

Mint explains. Food inflation shot up to 9.4% year-on-year in June—the highest in six months—from 8.7% a month earlier, led by a sharp increase in the prices of vegetables (up 29.3%), pulses (16.1%) and cereals (8.8%). For vegetables—short-duration crops and price-wise the most volatile component—a prolonged heat wave in May and June led to a supply shortfall and higher prices.

It’s an introspective week on Wall Street as a slew of banks and brokers report their second quarter earnings. Financial advisors, of course, are taking note as well, deciding whether they want to be buyers or sellers of some of their competitors shares.

Even as the wealth management operations of the wirehouses benefit from a record breaking stock market, a stumbling block in the way of higher profits is emerging: the amount they are paying clients in interest for certain cash advisory accounts.

The price of bitcoin (BTC) turned slightly lower early Tuesday afternoon after crossing the $65,000 level in late trading Monday.

Off-channel communications have topped investment advisors’ list of ongoing compliance concerns, dethroning the SEC’s Marketing Rule, according to new survey report.

US Secret Service continues to under fire for its alleged security lapses during the Trump rally at Butler in Pennsylvania. The Republican party’s official presidential nominee was shot at by an assassin. The failed assassination attempt on Trump has raised questions regarding the protocol followed by the US Secret Service. Its Director Kimberly Cheatle is in the news yet again for all the wrong reasons. In an interaction with ABC News, she refused to step down and attributed bizarre reasons for the failure to prevent the assassin. She also indulged in a game of blame game and accused the local law enforcement agencies of neglect.

In preparation for the launch of its MMA fantasy fighting Play-to-Earn (P2E) game, Fight Out is migrating its $FGHT token from Ethereum to Polygon.

$BRETT, the most valuable meme coin on the Base chain, is headed for a $2 billion-plus valuation as the crypto complex prints a bottom and recovery mode sets in.

While many across the United States and the world, including President Joe Biden, are urging Americans to lower the political temperature in the country in the wake of a failed assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump, some stocks on Wall Street looked upbeat this week.

Go First airline are set to move towards liquidation of the airline after finding no headway between banks and the two prospective bidders, five months after bids were formally received for the Wadia Group-owned carrier, said people familiar with the matter. Lenders are putting final touches to a voting proposal seeking liquidation of the airline after both the bids — from a consortium of EaseMyTrip CEO Nishant Pitti and SpiceJet chairman Ajay Singh, and from Sharjah-based Sky One Aviation — were below their expectations. The voting proposal may be put up before the committee of creditors this week, the people said. «Some processes like selection of proposed liquidator, calculating the cost of liquidation and funding of liquidation are being done, after which the proposal will be put to vote this week,» said one of the persons, who did not wish to be identified.