Asian markets opened lower on Thursday, after fresh losses in US technology stocks that weakened investor confidence across the region. Overnight losses on Wall Street weighed down sentiment, even as US stock futures showed modest gains. Hong Kong’s HSI was down 1.2% or 340 points to 26,506. In Japan, Nikkei shed 604 points to reach…
Stock market today (AI image) Stock market today: Nifty50 and BSE Sensex, the Indian equity benchmark indices, opened in red on Thursday. While Nifty50 went below 25,750, BSE Sensex was down over 150 points. At 9:16 AM, Nifty50 was trading at 25,723.25, down 53 points or 0.20%. BSE Sensex was at 83,666.28, down 151 points…
Around the crack of dawn, a line begins forming at a strip mall in Hyattsville, Maryland, as residents ranging from students to delivery workers and federal contractors wait to sign up for food assistance.“Right now, it’s a lot — paying rent, buying food,” said Shirleyann Desormeaux, a chef supporting four children in her household.Even with…
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SEBI chief Tuhin Kanta Pandey (PTI photo) MUMBAI: Sebi chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey Wednesday expressed his disappointment at the fact that more Indians know about cryptocurrency than about corporate bonds. “Sebi’s investor survey shows awareness of corporate bonds as an investment product is only about 10%, well below deposits, insurance, and small savings. Even cryptocurrency…
Mukesh Ambani (right) and Larry Fink MUMBAI: Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani on Wednesday said that India will be self-sufficient in the energy sector with reasonable investments in the next 20-30 years. “In the next decade, India will not import 80% of its energy,” he said.“We have a path and God- willing, like with technological…
Chip Kaye, Chief Executive Founder, Warburg MUMBAI: Warburg Pincus’s global chairman Chip Kaye said India is one of the ‘best constructive ecosystems’ that the PE giant has built over the last 30 years that the US-headquartered private equity major has been in the country.In this period, Warburg Pincus had made 80 investments in India. In…
Sriharsha Majety, group CEO, Swiggy Swiggy MD & group CEO Sriharsha Majety has said that budget’s announcement to introduce City Economic Regions, will accelerate urbanisation and formalisation beyond the metros, while expansion of organised economic activity into Tier-II and Tier-III centres will be a key driver of incremental GDP creation over medium term.“Targeted investments in…
MUMBAI: A tech sell-off on Dalal Street on Wednesday—that came on the back of Anthropic’s launch of a new AI-led app that could potentially challenge existing business models of Indian software exporters—wiped off about Rs 1.75 lakh crore worth of market value. The sharp slide in sector leaders like TCS, Infosys and Wipro, also left…
MUMBAI: The rupee slipped 17 paise to close at 90.44 against the dollar on Wednesday, retreating after a sharp 124-paise surge in the previous session that followed news of a trade deal being finalised between India and US.Dealers said the rally lost momentum as the market failed to see follow-through demand, particularly from foreign institutional…
