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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The White House granted a temporary reprieve for many of its tariffs on Canada and Mexico last week, but a similar pause seems less likely for revamped global steel and aluminum tariffs set to go into effect Wednesday. President Trump’s team has repeatedly said there would be no exceptions or exemptions from the 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum.

Trump is obsessed with winning the Nobel Peace Prize, which is one reason why he’s pushing Ukraine and Russia so hard toward cease-fire negotiations. The way the US president is going about it won’t earn him any favor in Oslo, though, because so far he mainly seems to be coercing Ukraine to capitulate.

Realty developer Omaxe will invest Rs 600 crore in developing 1.5 million sq ft of retail space in Faridabad, a senior executive said. The development is part of Omaxe World Street, 27 acre of which is already operational and has over 250 brands. Spanning over 120 acres, the project has future development potential as well.

Ben Powell, Chief Middle East and APAC Investment Strategist, BlackRock Investment Institute, says we at BlackRock are still very much on board with the India bull story, while being respectful of the short-term sell-off which clearly has fed on itself. India is on a journey to exist as a standalone investment destination and that is going to become more and more the case in the quarters and years ahead. We have discussed the US. We have discussed China. Where is India? Did I miss it? Ben Powell: India is doing very well. I am here in the UAE. We had a huge cricket event over the weekend. India was triumphant. India, I still think is in this temporarily tricky spot of risk slightly feeding on itself. You have had a market which perhaps got a little bit ahead of itself several months ago and that was ripe, it turns out, for a little bit of a downdraft and that is now feeding on itself to some degree.

ADSEZ) is well positioned to benefit from India's long-term growth due to its strategic business model and alignment with the country's development goals, according to a report by Macquarie Equity Research. The report highlighted ADSEZ's diversified port operations, strong cargo mix, and integrated logistics network as key factors supporting its resilience and long-term expansion. The report said, «ADSEZ is well positioned to capitalise on India's long-term growth potential due to its businesses' thematic alignment with the nation's development».

"SBI is certainly within the public sector framework, it is the best within the lot. But if my choice has to be there, today I would prefer to go with Kotak and ICICI," says Deven Choksey, MD, DRChoksey FinServ Pvt. Ltd. What are your thoughts on IndusInd Bank? What is it that you have made of these discrepancies in their accounting balances, estimating an adverse impact of nearly about 2.35% on their net worth as of December 2024. We have of course seen the stock take quite a bit of hit yesterday itself when Sumant Kathpalia’s extension got shortened to one year and not three years. But other than that, now that it seems that in the interim IndusInd Bank is not going to be really the preferred one, which of the private banking names do you prefer right now if you were looking to add positions in this current market? Deven Choksey: It is a challenging activity business-wise for most of the banks. On one side, they have to cope up with the technology front for reaching out to their customers and efficiently processing the loans and collecting the deposits.

Michael Vaughan was all praise of the Indian cricket team's bench strength after they lifted a historic third Champions Trophy after beating New Zealand in Dubai on Sunday. Taking to social media platform X, Vaughan said that even India's second sting side could have made it to the final of the Champions Trophy. “Jaiswal, Varma, Sharma, SKY, Pant, Reddy, Sundar, Chahal, Arshdeep, Bumrah & Bishnoi… This team would have made it to the final as well IMO. The strength in Indian cricket in white-ball is off the scale,” he wrote.

Apple Inc. is preparing one of the most dramatic software overhauls in the company’s history, aiming to transform the interface of the iPhone, iPad and Mac for a new generation of users. The revamp — due later this year — will fundamentally change the look of the operating systems and make Apple’s various software platforms more consistent, according to people familiar with the effort. That includes updating the style of icons, menus, apps, windows and system buttons. As part of the push, the company is working to simplify the way users navigate and control their devices, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the project hasn’t been announced. The design is loosely based on the Vision Pro’s software, they said.

Deepak Shenoy, Founder, Capital Mind, says from April 2nd, universally the reciprocal tariffs are in place. Given that, the next month is going to be volatile regardless of what happens. But I find that in markets, price uncertainty affects badly. That means markets just go down regardless of what the fundamentals might turn up. Stability will come only with some layer of certainty. We should look at the rest of this month and maybe the first few days of April as going to be tumultuous in the markets regardless. What do you make of the markets right now because the week gone by has been really good, but then comes Monday. Indeed, a volatile trading session. But given this weakness that we are seeing right now, what is your sense? Is this volatility here to stay? And what is the long-term trend that you are focusing on? Deepak Shenoy: There is a weakening trend in general. The rupee has weakened as well today, 20 odd paisa. There has also been a reversal in the market. But I feel this is mostly related to the uncertainty at a global standpoint because nothing meaningful in India has changed so far. One of the biggest threats right now is tariffs and what we will do to perhaps address them.

Mayuresh Joshi, Head Equity, Marketsmith India, says three triggers could lift Reliance out of a 52-week low. One, any de-merger news of either the telecom or the retail operations might act as a trigger for the stock. Second, the Street would like to see if the telecom ARPU increases can be sustained going forward. That will create a huge leverage in the individual telecom balance sheet, as well as retail. The maturity of Reliance Retail stores with consumption expected to make a big comeback, after the tax cuts starting from the first half of the next financial year, can be a huge boost for the retail operations. Third, both in terms of the oil to petchem business and some hope of Chinese recovery in terms of downstream product prices, might prop up the overall ROEs provided equity levels stay at manageable levels. These two-three things might work in favour of Reliance over the medium term. What is your current take on the chemical pack because that is one of the export-related plays and what has been happening in Europe, give us some sense that what are you picking up within the chemical basket as well as anything in particular that is looking interesting to you right now? Mayuresh Joshi: Two things, there is one part of the chemical basket which is highly commoditised including players in the soda ash space, for example, where China has a huge dominance and the other spaces which in reality belongs to the specialty chemical space as well where there are niche players and where the expectations in terms of core applications are limited to those niche players.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Even though policymakers in Beijing may be putting up a sanguine show, not all is well with China’s economy. Its latest official data reveals that prices in China fell 0.7% from a year earlier in February, marking the first time in more than a year that the economy is in the grip of deflation.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. THE SELL-OFF shows no sign of stopping. America’s S&P 500 index dropped by another 3% on March 10th, leaving the world’s most watched stockmarket down by almost 9% since its peak last month.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Physics Wallah is building small language models (SLMs) to solve questions in physics, chemistry, mathematics and biology, as the edtech major seeks to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) for scale and efficiency. “Our chief technology officer Devesh Mishra has dropped all his other responsibilities to focus on building SLMs for Physics Wallah," company founder and chief executive Alakh Pandey told Mint in an interview.

«With about three crucial weeks to go, it may go up to ₹66,000-67,000 crore this fiscal if all goes well, way above the revised estimate of ₹55,000 crore,» he said. The collection had hit a record ₹63,749 crore in 2023-24. The entities include all the non-financial central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) and those in which the government holds minority stakes.

Moana 2 has performed well at the box office and will soon be available for streaming. The movie has earned over a billion dollars globally and continues to generate revenue. It will likely hit its final box office milestone before its release on Disney+.

He tries to remember. But sleep is like a black hole. A well that reveals nothing of its contents. At least I didn't dream about the bulls, he thinks. Then I would have been hot and sweaty, as if I had suffered through a fever during the night. This time the bulls left me in peace. He lies still in the darkness and listens. His wife's breathing at his side is so faint that he can scarcely hear it. One of these mornings she'll be lying dead beside me and I   won't even notice, he thinks. Or maybe it'll be me. Daybreak will reveal that one of us has been left all alone.

Election Commission Monday said the matter related to duplicate voter identity card numbers is a «legacy issue» with such cards being issued even between 2008 and 2013 when the BJP-led NDA was not in power. The EC had in the past during annual electoral roll updation also been directing states to remove all discrepancies in elector photo identity card (EPIC). The poll body had recently clarified that irrespective of EPIC number, an elector can cast a vote only at their designated polling station. To allay any apprehensions, all cases of duplicate EPIC number will be resolved within three months time by ensuring a unique EPIC number to the existing electors having duplicate EPIC number and for future electors as well, the EC had said.

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«Barring quick commerce, everywhere else clearly the TAM is established, the unit economics are established and you have a bunch of companies which are hugely profitable and are dominating their respective market segments,» says Nilesh Shah, MD & CEO, Envision Capital. The other thing that you have been backing was the platform related companies, that is the sector that you used to like. Give us some sense what has been happening and how do you see the recent correction in some of these stocks because though there are near-term concerns regarding their profitability, so how do you see the unit economics panning out and the consolidation in the sector and any segment or rather any stock where you have gone ahead and actually increased your exposure in the recent correction? Nilesh Shah: So, platform companies essentially now has become a much wider bouquet. There are essentially the food delivery platforms and then there is the quick commerce space and then there is the travel space, insurance, capital market plays, these are basically a very wide variety of companies which are there in digital platforms.

«It is quite possible we may go through some bit of consolidation as we grapple with global macros, as we grapple with local macros, but post that we should be in a pretty much a sweet spot,» says Nilesh Shah, MD & CEO, Envision Capital. Is the market going to be a winner or not? Have we sold out enough? Nilesh Shah: Yes, India will remain a winner, be it sports or be it the Main Street or be it the Mint Street, India remains a long-term winner. Yes, there would be a bit of upheavals here and there. Like in sports, you lose one match or so, but ultimately what matters is winning the trophy, winning the tournament. I clearly believe India will continue to win this trophy of being the star in emerging markets.