The Indian market's high valuations have been supported by the price-agonistic buying behaviour of domestic non-institutional investors that remain extremely confident of making high returns at all price points.
India becomes the fourth nation to achieve space docking through its indigenously developed 'Bharatiya Docking System.' ISRO Chairman S. Somanath announces the launch of the NVS-02 satellite and emphasizes the significance of docking for the Chandrayaan-4 mission, with multiple space missions planned for 2025.
Adani Enterprises on Monday announced its decision to fully exit its 44% holding in Adani Wilmar, in a bid to shift focus on its infrastructure platforms. The exit will take place in two phases with the first being a stake sale to Wilmar International’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Lence Pte Ltd, and a partial divestment to meet public shareholding requirements.
The Nifty remained volatile during the session, oscillating between 23,600 and 23,900. The overall outlook remains negative for the short term, with potential downside risks. On the lower end, support is seen at 23,400, while resistance is expected around 23,870 in the near term
Large language models (LLMs), SLMs can generate human-like language but are trained on smaller datasets with fewer parameters. They are said to be easier to train and use, consuming less computational power, more cost-effective and better suited for specific tasks. The year 2024 saw launches of a slew of lightweight models, from Microsoft’s Phi family of SLMs to Google’s Gemma and a smaller variant of Meta’s Llama model.
India's digital economy faces increasing compliance burdens due to overlapping cybersecurity laws from various regulatory bodies. Companies are challenged with inconsistent requirements in breach reporting, audits, and vulnerability assessments. Experts call for harmonization under a single governance body to reduce complexity and costs, especially urging the Data Protection Board under the DPDP Act to take on this role.
While New Year's Eve is among the best days in a year for food delivery platforms, quick commerce and dining out categories also witness a surge in consumption on this day. During this high-demand period, delivery platforms offer incentives for gig workers to operate.
Zomato and Swiggy are focusing on monetising their growing loyalty programme subscriber base, which drives significant food delivery orders. Both platforms offer exclusive benefits to subscribers to increase engagement and improve margins, though high discounts and free deliveries impact profitability. They are exploring personalized products and ad revenues for long-term sustainability.
Cyber threats will increase as AI makes scams more sophisticated. Deepfake tools and voice cloning will become harder to detect. Cybersecurity will be crucial for companies. Scammers will use advanced AI for convincing deepfakes. Audio deepfakes will rise. Expect more complex attacks. Adopting AI securely will be beneficial for businesses. Stay vigilant about security.
Artificial intelligence is expected to revolutionise gadgets by 2025. AI phones will predict user needs, smart glasses will enhance visual experiences, and satellite internet will bring connectivity globally. Upgraded AI-powered smart speakers and Google's quantum computing chip, Willow, promise significant technological advancements, offering unprecedented speed and efficiency in data processing.
SIPs have been a convenient way for retail investors to put small amounts into mutual fund schemes every month. Of this, 90-95% went into equity-oriented funds. The numbers speak about their popularity.
What followed, instead, delivered another humbling to Wall Street prognosticators who have been caught off guard by the market's twists and turns ever since the end of the pandemic.
Based on the account number and IFSC code, the customer will be able to fetch the beneficiary's account name from the bank's core banking solution (CBS). The facility will also be available to remitters visiting branches for making transactions.
AEL plans to offload its nearly 44% stake in Adani Wilmar Ltd (AWL) in two parts. It will first sell about 13% stake to meet public shareholding norms. The promoters currently hold 88% of the company. Wilmar will acquire the remaining 31% stake, which will increase its holding to nearly 75% from 44%.
The report, published on Monday by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), forecast the economy will expand 6.6% in FY25, in line with the forecast given by outgoing governor Shaktikanta Das announcing the last monetary policy on December 6. GDP growth had retreated to 5.4% — the slowest in seven quarters — in the three months to September.
Confederation of Indian Industry president Sanjiv Puri suggested a seven-point agenda to propel growth, including employment generation, integrating India into global value chains, increasing capital expenditure and a target to reduce government debt to 50% of the GDP.
In a bid to decode the storm of enterprise, aspiration and innovation expected next year, ET sought out views, opinions and data from leaders and doers across sectors from technology, digital commerce and policy to healthcare, banking, philanthropy and more.
India has been an expensive market in terms of valuations compared to its regional peers. Though global investors have been uncomfortable with this aspect of equities here, they grudgingly admired India because of the strength of its corporate profitability in addition to superior economic prospects.
Analysts said that overseas investors are likely to remain cautious on India until clarity on Donald Trump's policies emerges and third-quarter earnings witness a revival. However, they expect foreign inflows to come back in the second half of 2025.
The way 2024 is ending for large-caps is very different from how it began. At the start of the year, large-caps were mostly seen as stocks that had failed to deliver returns. The reason for this perception was the much better performance of mid- and small-caps. But in the last few months, large-caps have been able to cover some of the valuation differential with mid- and large-cap stocks. But if one looks at the long-term average, there is still scope for mean reversion. As an investor, even in a bull market... Читать дальше...
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Himadri Specialty Chemical Ltd breaks out from the neckline of an inverse Head & Shoulder pattern, indicating a bullish trend. Experts suggest short-term traders with a high-risk profile to aim for a target of Rs 675-690, with key support at Rs 530. The stock's daily RSI and MACD indicators support the bullish outlook.
The arrival of a New Year is actually a time to create some pretty unique and creative social media templates to eventually enhance the festive posts.
