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The Nifty future closed negative with losses of 0.03% at 21033 levels on Thursday. India VIX was down by 7.77% from 13.74 to 12.67 level.

OpenAI, saw a 55% increase in shares. In comparison, shares have increased by 55% in 2023, according to Bloomberg report. "Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels

Ashutosh Tiwari, Managing Director and Head of Institutional Equities at Equirus believes Budget 2024 may be balanced, along with growth orientation, and it will also include populist measures with a focus on rural and lower strata of society which has been under distress post Covid. In an interview with Mint, he says NDA's win in the 2024 General Election will not trigger any sharp rally in the market.

WhatsApp is testing a "View Once" feature for voice notes. This feature is currently being tested for Android and iOS users who are using the beta version of the app. WhatsApp introduced «View Once» for photos and videos in 2021 to add another layer of privacy to your messages.

Meta is rolling out end-to-end encryption for calls and messages across its Facebook and Messenger platforms, the company announced Thursday. Such encryption means that no one other than the sender and the recipient — not even Meta — can decipher people's messages. Encrypted chats, first introduced as an optional feature in Messenger in 2016, will now be the standard for all users going forward, according to Messenger head Loredana Crisan.

SJVN with a 'buy' rating, pointing out the stock's capacity to yield strong returns of two to three times over a three- to five-year period. The brokerage believes there is a potential upside of 48% for SJVN stock from the current market price of 84 and has set the target price for SJVN at ₹125.

Radico Khaitan, revising its price target to ₹1,965. The brokerage also projects a 17.66% potential upside in the stock from its current market price of ₹1,670.

Tata Power jumped nearly 10% to the day’s high of Rs 322.25 on the NSE on Thursday following an upgrade by brokerage firm JM Financial. The rally ensured that the company’s market cap crossed the Rs 1 lakh crore mark, thus making it the sixth firm from the Tata stable to achieve the coveted milestone.

Ircon International share price slumped over 8% on Thursday's session following the opening of the two-day offer for sale (OFS) today. The engineering and construction company said in an exchange filing on Wednesday that the central government plans to sell up to 8% of its stake in IRCON International through an OFS, with a floor price set at ₹154 per share, as previously reported by Mint.

₹1,015 apiece on BSE. According to Rajesh Bhosale, Equity Technical and Derivative Analyst, Angel One, Bharti Airtlel is in a strong uptrend, but this week, while there's a strong broad base buying in the market, this stock has not participated in the rally and in fact has slipped lower this week.

HDFC Bank and Sun Pharma as well as on HUL. Meanwhile, Morgan Stanley recommended an Equalweight rating on Paytm. We have collated a list of recommendations from top brokerage firms from ETNow and other sources: Macquarie on HDFC Bank: Outperform| Target Rs 2110 Macquarie maintained an outperform rating on HDFC Bank with a target price of Rs 2110.

Delta Corp, Indiabulls Housing Finance, The India Cements, Steel Authority of India (SAIL) and Zee Entertainment Enterprises (ZEEL). The F&O contracts of any stock enter the ban period when the open interest (OI) on it crosses 95% of the market-wide positions limits or MWPL. The ban on it is reversed only if the open interest falls below 80%. Traders who trade in indices do not encounter a situation of security ban.

Paytm, tanked 20% to the day's low of Rs 650.45 on the NSE in Thursday’s trade after the company informed exchanges that it will issue fewer sub-Rs 50,000 (about $600) personal loans weeks after the central bank tightened rules on consumer lending after a surge in demand. The fintech lender said it will expand its portfolio of higher-ticket personal and commercial loans to lower-risk and high-credit-worthy customers, expecting «good demand» for loans of more than Rs 50,000. This comes after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently raised the amount of capital that banks and non-bank lenders need to set aside to cover potential defaults when giving out personal loans. The RBI tightened its rules, after a surge in such small-ticket loans, particularly of those less than 50,000 rupees, and an increase in delinquencies. Paytm is getting «ultra-conservative» in this segment, a Reuters report said, quoting Bhavesh Gupta, the company's president and chief operating officer, on a call with analysts. «On the back of recent macro development and regulatory guidance, in consultation with our lending partners, we have decided to reduce less than Rs 50,000 loan distribution,» Gupta said. This, he estimated, will lead to a near 40%-50% drop in the volume of loans Paytm issues through its post-paid product, but will have a minimal impact on revenue growth. Paytm's postpaid loans accounted for about 56% of total loans in the July-September quarter, per company data. The sub-50,000-rupee loans, in particular, account for about 38% of Paytm's total loans, estimated Rahul Jain, financial analyst at Dolat Capital. «We expect a negative impact of about 15% quarter-on-quarter on the (total) value of loans distributed by Paytm… but

Meta Platforms will add invisible watermarking to its text-to-image generation product imagine with Meta AI chatbot in the coming weeks to enhance transparency, the Facebook parent said on Wednesday. The social media firm rolled out products infused with artificial intelligence (AI) for consumers, including bots that create photo-realistic images and smart glasses that answer questions, in late September. «We aim to bring invisible watermarking to many of our products with AI-generated images in the future,» Meta said in a blog post, adding that it is resilient to common image manipulations like cropping, and screenshots, among others. The success of ChatGPT — Microsoft-backed OpenAI's chatbot — has led firms to leverage the power of large language models in creating AI-powered products to attract new investors, push for innovation, retain old customers and engage new ones. Meta made Meta AI using a custom model based on the powerful Llama 2 large language model that the company released for public commercial use in July. The company is testing more than 20 new ways generative AI can improve experiences across its social media platforms, including Instagram and WhatsApp. The Menlo Park, California-based company is expanding access to imagine outside of chats, making it available in the U.S.

₹750 to ₹790 per equity share of face value of ₹10. DOMS Industries IPO date of subscription is scheduled for Wednesday, December 13, and will close on Friday, December 15.

The floor price is 75 times the face value while the cap price is 79 times. Investors can make an application for the issue for a minimum of 18 shares and in multiples thereafter. The company is offering a discount of Rs 75 per share to the eligible employees of the company. Ahead of the issue, the company's shares are demanding a premium (GMP) of Rs 330 apiece in the grey market. The company plans to raise Rs 1,200 crore from the public issue with fresh equity aggregating to Rs 350 crore and an offer for sale (OFS) of Rs 850 crore. Under the OFS, promoters Fabbrica Italiana Lapis, Sanjay Mansukhal Rajani and Keta Mansukhal Rajani will offload shares. The offer is being made through the book-building process, where 75% of the offer is reserved for qualified institutional buyers, 15% for non-institutional investors and 10% for retail investors. The funds raised through the fresh issue are proposed to be utilised for the part funding of the cost of establishing a new manufacturing facility and for general corporate purposes. Doms Industries designs, develops, manufactures, and sells a wide range of 'stationery and art' products, primarily under its flagship brand 'Doms', in the domestic market as well as in over 40 countries internationally. Its core products such as pencils and mathematical instrument boxes enjoy high market shares — 29% and 30% by value in FY23 respectively.

Meta Platforms will add invisible watermarking to its text-to-image generation product imagine with Meta AI chatbot in the coming weeks to enhance transparency, the Facebook-parent said on Wednesday. The social media firm rolled out products infused with artificial intelligence (AI) for consumers, including bots that create photo-realistic images and smart glasses that answer questions, in late September.

Stocks that were in focus include names like Angel One, which rose 6.67%, Sobha, which fell 1.2%, and Tata Chemicals, whose shares increased 3% on Wednesday. Here's what Riyank Arora, Technical Analyst at Mehta Equities, recommends investors should do with these stocks when the market resumes trading today. Angel One — Bullish The stock is trading in a rising wedge pattern and is consistently seen to be making higher highs and higher lows. With the overall trend being positive it is expected that Angel One should touch the 3300 mark.

Meta Platforms will start fully encrypting messages on Facebook and Instagram by default, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The social media giant this week will begin automatically shifting Facebook users to end-to-end encryption for their messages, rolling out the change over the course of weeks, the WSJ reported.

Boris Johnson faced intense scrutiny over his handling of the early stages of the pandemic in an appearance before the Covid inquiry in London. Johnson insisted that he was not adequately warned about the severity of Covid-19 in early 2020, attributing the lack of urgency to a prevailing sense of complacency within the government. He expressed regret for mistakes made but argued that some errors were unavoidable given the prevailing mindset at the time.

Adani Ports will meet on December 12 to consider a fundraising proposal through the issuance of non-convertible debentures and non-cumulative redeemable preference shares. «A meeting of the Board of the company will be held on December 12 to consider the proposal for issuance of non-convertible debentures and issuance/renewal of non-cumulative redeemable preference shares, on private placement basis/ preferential basis,» the company said in a filing. The fundraising will be done in one or more tranches. Shares of Adani Ports rallied over 23% in the last five days after the group received a shot in the arm on a Bloomberg report that quoted unnamed officials in the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) as saying that the allegations by Hindenburg Research were not relevant. The US agency had recently announced funding of $553 million for the Group's port business in Sri Lanka. In November, Adani Ports recorded strong cargo volumes of around 36 MMT, a robust 42% year-on-year increase. Growth was witnessed across all three broad cargo categories – dry bulk (over 60% YoY), containers (over 26%) and liquids and gas (over 23%). In the eight months of FY24 (April-November 2023), the company handled around 275 MMT of cargo, showing a healthy 21% YoY growth.