Reliance Power, TBO Tek among top 10 small cap stocks bought by mutual funds in March
INDIA MUTUAL FUNDS | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 10:00AM IST
Here are the top 10 small cap stocks bought by mutual funds in March, according to a report by ICICI Direct Research.
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Smallcaps say 'Thank you Trump' as over 100 stocks log double-digit weekly gains. Will this sustain?
INDIA MARKET | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 9:59AM IST
Indian equities rebounded strongly, driven by a pause in US tariffs, with the Sensex gaining over 4%. Small caps surged, offering relief to investors after months of pressure. Banking stocks led the gains, supported by a favorable monetary environment and reduced deposit rates. FIIs returned with strong buying, and analysts advise focusing on domestic themes amid global uncertainties.
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Explained: What are rolling returns in mutual funds and why do they matter for investors?
INDIA MUTUAL FUNDS | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 9:56AM IST
Rolling returns offer a more consistent evaluation of mutual fund performance by analyzing returns across various timeframes, eliminating biases from specific periods. This method reveals a fund's consistency, aids in comparing funds, and helps assess risk by identifying performance patterns. Investors can use rolling returns to make informed decisions based on long-term sustainability.
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White House changes COVID.gov to page blaming China lab for pandemic
INDIA MARKET | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 9:37AM IST
The origin of Covid-19 has been one of the most debated topics since the pandemic began
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INDIA MARKET | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 9:21AM IST
From daily Vipassana meditation to consistent running and gratitude journaling, Jhawar has built a disciplined wellness routine that not only fuels his productivity but also shapes his leadership and company culture.
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INDIA MARKET | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 9:21AM IST
From daily Vipassana meditation to consistent running and gratitude journaling, Jhawar has built a disciplined wellness routine that not only fuels his productivity but also shapes his leadership and company culture.
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Q4 results today: HDFC Bank, YES Bank, ICICI Bank among 5 companies to announce earnings on Saturday
INDIA MARKET | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 9:16AM IST
ICICI Bank, YES Bank, and HDFC Bank are set to release their Q4 earnings, with HDFC Bank anticipated to show a net profit increase between 2.5% and 7%. ICICI Bank is projected to reveal a double-digit net profit growth, potentially rising by 10-15%. Brokerage firms have provided estimates for both banks' net interest income, indicating positive growth.
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Wall Street Week Ahead: Busy US earnings week confronts market grappling with tariff fallout
INDIA MARKET | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 9:08AM IST
U.S. stock market faces a crucial week as major companies report earnings amid trade policy uncertainties sparked by President Trump's tariffs. Investors are on edge, with recession odds rising and volatility remaining high.
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Trump studying whether to fire Fed Chair Powell, adviser says
INDIA MARKET | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 9:05AM IST
White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett indicated that President Trump is still considering firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, despite concerns about the central bank's independence and market stability. Trump has repeatedly criticized Powell for not lowering interest rates, accusing him of playing politics.
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Do not look for growth, build a portfolio for a market that is not growing: Kenneth Andrade
INDIA MARKET | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 9:00AM IST
Kenneth Andrade of Old Bridge Capital Management suggests that the global economy is heading towards stagflation, with the US facing tariff-driven inflation and the rest of the world grappling with deflation due to inventory surplus. He advises investors to build portfolios focused on companies that are self-sustaining and have strong balance sheets, rather than chasing growth.
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2 top stock recommendations from Rupak De for next week
INDIA MARKET | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 9:00AM IST
So, overall sentiment looks very positive and till the time Nifty remains above 23,300 the sentiment might remain positive and buy on dip strategy will be favoured and on the higher end Nifty might move towards 24,100.
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India may become best-performing market in 2nd half of FY25: Mayuresh Joshi
INDIA MARKET | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 9:00AM IST
Amidst a mixed earnings season, the IT sector faces headwinds from discretionary spending uncertainty and pricing challenges, potentially delaying recovery. However, domestically focused sectors like agrochemicals, healthcare, and banking show promise. Valuations are currently fair, with expectations of a stronger second half in FY25 driven by consumption and government spending.
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INDIA MARKET | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 9:00AM IST
While he cautions that equities may face pressure and deliver subpar returns in the near term, he believes the current environment presents a rare window for bargain hunters to accumulate high-quality stocks at reasonable valuations.
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Gold price climbs 10 to 97,590, silver declines 100 to 99,900
INDIA MARKET | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 8:11AM IST
The price of 22-carat gold rose 10, with ten grams of the yellow metal selling at 89,460
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EM assets set for best week since March as China concerns abate
INDIA MARKET | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 8:10AM IST
With most markets closed for Easter, the MSCI emerging markets index rose on Friday, taking its weekly advance to 2.2%. Currencies of commodity-linked countries including South Africa outperformed this week, sending the benchmark near a six-month high.
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Once-hot Wall Street funds unravel fast with no one to save
INDIA MARKET | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 8:04AM IST
In the grip of the tariff fallout, 90 of the top 100 best-performing exchange-traded funds of last year are down in 2025, with an average loss of 13%, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. At the same time, dormant trades of all sorts have staged a comeback: Nine of the 20 worst-performing equity mutual funds of 2024 are posting positive returns this year.
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MCA, Sebi plan investor camps for faster transfer of unclaimed shares, dividends
INDIA MARKET | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 7:56AM IST
These and other planned initiatives follow a directive by finance and corporate affairs minister Nirmala Sitharaman to take swift remedial measures amid complaints of delay in transfers, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Nippon MF portal yet to be restored after cyber attack
INDIA MUTUAL FUNDS | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 7:47AM IST
Nippon Mutual Fund has assets of 5.5 lakh crore under management, and a large retail base. Investors cannot make any fresh financial transaction - a purchase, redemption, or starting a new SIP (Systematic Investment Plan) or SWP (Systematic Withdrawal Plan) through the website now.
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US tariffs set off rush to get Bitcoin mining gear from Asia
INDIA MARKET | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 7:41AM IST
In the frenzy that ensued, Sealion helped charter five aircraft while overseeing dozens of trucks and barges to ship $330 million worth of equipment from Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia to the US.
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Reliance Board may consider fundraise via NCDs on April 25
INDIA MARKET | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 7:37AM IST
However, the company did not give any details of the amount to be raised. The company will also present its fourth quarter and full-year results post the board meeting, along with an analyst and media briefing.
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Investors should cut US positions, favour Europe, China, India: Wood
INDIA MARKET | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 7:29AM IST
The US Treasury is considered among the world's top safe-haven assets, as investors usually pile up these American government bonds in times of crisis as part of their shift to safety. The purchases lead to a fall in yields on the US Treasury and the dollar strengthening.
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Delhi building collapse claims four lives
INDIA NEWS | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 7:20AM IST
At least four people lost their lives after a building collapsed early Saturday morning in the Mustafabad area of Delhi. Officials said that several others may still be trapped under the debris.Rescue teams from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Delhi Police quickly arrived at the scene. Efforts are still going on to pull out anyone who may be stuck inside.— ANI (@ANI) An eyewitness at the site said, "Two men and two daughters-in-law stay here. The oldest daughter-in-law has three children, second daughter-in-law has three children... right now we don't know anything. They are nowhere to be seen."— ANI (@ANI) This tragic incident happened just hours after Delhi saw heavy rain and thunderstorms on Friday night. The sudden weather change affected many parts of the city.— ANI (@ANI) Sadly, this is not the only recent case of a building collapse in the city. Just last week, a wall of an under-construction six-floor building fell near the Madhu Vihar police station during a dust storm. In that case, one person died and two others were hurt.Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Vineet Kumar had said, "Around 7 pm, we received a PCR call. When we reached the spot, we found that a wall had collapsed during the dust storm. One person had died, and two were injured. They were taken to the hospital."
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Lawsuit challenges Trump administration crackdown on international students
INDIA MARKET | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 6:52AM IST
The suit filed by several American Civil Liberties Union affiliates seeks to represent more than 100 students in New England and Puerto Rico
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Trump to reclassify many federal workers
INDIA NEWS | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 6:43AM IST
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday his administration is set to change the employment classifications of tens of thousands of federal workers, a move governance experts say will make it easier to carry out more mass layoffs. Trump said on social media that moving forward, career government employees who work on policy matters will be classified as "schedule policy/career." This change would ensure the federal government will finally be "run like a business," Trump said. Trump's announcement, putting into action an executive order he signed on his first day in office on January 20, will likely strip vast numbers of the 2.3 million-strong federal workforce of their job protections by effectively making them employees at will. By deeming anyone involved in "policy" as part of this new category, the pool of people that could potentially be fired expands enormously, because nearly everyone in government touches policy in one way or another, said Don Moynihan, a professor at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Trump ordered the reclassification of many government workers at the end of his first term, known as Schedule F, which former Democratic President Joe Biden rescinded on his first day in office in 2021. Estimates then were that Schedule F could make at least 50,000 federal workers vulnerable to being fired. The new order is broad enough that hundreds of thousands of people could be reclassified, Moynihan said, before firings begin. Over 260,000 federal workers have already been fired, have taken buyouts, retired early or have been earmarked for termination since Trump took office, according to a tally by Reuters. The reclassification comes as Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency continue their drive to cut the size and cost of the federal workforce. They claim it is bloated and full of waste and fraud. Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, the biggest federal workers' union with 800,000 members, decried the move by Trump. "President Trump's action to politicize the work of tens of thousands of career federal employees will erode the government's merit-based hiring system and undermine the professional civil service that Americans rely on," Kelley said. Matt Biggs, president of the International Federation of Professional & Technical Engineers, which represents 90,000 workers, said Trump's move will make federal employees "essentially at will employees. So they can just go ahead and fire them." Biggs said his union will fight the move.
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Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard
GLOBAL NEWS | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 6:40AM IST
An official on the administrations antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
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US will 'pass' on Ukraine peace talks if parties make it difficult: Trump
INDIA MARKET | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 6:27AM IST
Despite the warning, Trump expressed cautious optimism about securing a deal
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Fixed vs. floating interest rate?
INDIA BUSINESS | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 5:35AM IST
Choosing what works best for you
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Move against cheap imports hurts Electronics Inc
INDIA NEWS | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 5:30AM IST
New Delhi: The Centre's move to shield consumers against substandard and cheap imports, especially from China, has had an unintended negative consequence: Supply chain risks for electronics manufacturing and exports. Aluminium, steel, copper and other high-volume base metals come under the ambit of New Delhi's quality control orders (QCO) covering a large swathe of industries as diverse as automotive and large electrical appliances, which are prone to input-quality risks. But a small percentage of high-precision, expensive metals and polymers covered under quality control orders are also major inputs into electronics manufacturing, and blanket import curbs are posing sourcing challenges, industry executives said, risking India's export competitiveness vis-a-vis regional rivals in emerging Asia. "Supply chains are spread across the world, including China, Japan, South Korea", said an executive at a leading global electronics major. "When a broad-based QCO is implemented on a base metal product like copper or aluminium, the electronics sector also gets unintentionally hurt, leading to supply and sourcing constraints," the executive said. The industry said since electronics products are already covered under the compulsory registration order (CRO) scheme II and undergoes testing and certification, the materials and inputs for making such products ought to be exempt from the QCO curbs.120415501As per the electronics industry, QCOs serve an important purpose for high-volume-low precision sectors, such as aluminium and steel, which do not require the same standard of refinement as electronics products. Electronics makers require very high-grade raw materials that are both niche and technically complex in nature and, currently, India does not have reliable internal supplies of such raw materials and inputs.To be sure, QCOs have gained increasing prominence in India that's wary of potential dumping in light of the escalating tariff spat between the two biggest economies on the planet.PLI RISKSAnother executive said that some of the materials covered by these QCOs are crucial to components and sub-assemblies in the manufacturing of mobile phones and other gadgets being made in India under the production linked incentive (PLI) scheme. "These materials need to be imported to meet high technical standards and precision requirements and are integral to maintaining the high quality of products being manufactured in India," the executive said. The India Cellular and Electronics Association (ICEA), too, has written to the government that the imposition of QCOs could potentially halt manufacturing due to unavailability of inputs. "This would further disrupt supply chains, impede production targets, and hinder the ability of India-made products to integrate into global value chains (GVCs)," ICEA said in its letter to the government, seeking exemptions for electronics products.Further, an industry executive pointed out, the imports of such materials and inputs were meant for specific purposes and the volume was miniscule as compared with the overall imports of products in categories subject to QCOs.
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INDIA BUSINESS | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 5:30AM IST
Amidst Trump's disruptive tariff policies causing global economic instability, Indian B-schools are leveraging the chaos as a valuable learning opportunity. They emphasize the need for future managers to adapt to uncertainty, develop scenario planning skills, and understand the impact of political decisions on business.
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INDIA BUSINESS | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 5:30AM IST
Indian banks, including HDFC Bank and SBI, are strategically reducing savings account interest rates by 25 basis points to protect profitability amid declining CASA ratios. This move aims to lower the cost of funds and improve net interest margins, even as deposit growth faces challenges. Experts anticipate limited fund migration despite depositors shifting towards higher-yielding term deposits.
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INDIA BUSINESS | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 5:30AM IST
Eli Lilly's new oral weight-loss pill, orforglipron, shows promise in late-stage trials across countries like India and the US. Participants experienced an average weight loss of 7.2 kg with the 36 mg dose over 40 weeks. While less potent than injectable Wegovy, orforglipron offers a needle-free alternative, potentially easing distribution, especially in emerging markets.
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Margin Call: Banks cut rates to boost profits
INDIA MARKET | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 5:30AM IST
Indian banks, including HDFC Bank and SBI, are strategically reducing savings account interest rates by 25 basis points to protect profitability amid declining CASA ratios. This move aims to lower the cost of funds and improve net interest margins, even as deposit growth faces challenges. Experts anticipate limited fund migration despite depositors shifting towards higher-yielding term deposits.
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U.S. Adds Fees for Chinese Ships in Effort to Boost Shipbuilding
GLOBAL NEWS | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 3:32AM IST
The new fees are aimed at countering Chinas dominance of the shipbuilding industry, but critics say they will simply raise prices for American consumers.
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Don Mischer, Master of Live Television, Is Dead at 85
GLOBAL NEWS | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 2:48AM IST
He produced and directed major events like the Oscars, Emmys and Tonys, as well as Super Bowl halftime shows and Olympic opening ceremonies.
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CJR Editor Sewell Chan Is Fired
GLOBAL NEWS | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 2:21AM IST
Sewell Chan, who started as executive editor of the publication in September, said his firing after several staff complaints was baffling.
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Protect the Dolls T-Shirts Become a Viral Symbol of Trans Support
GLOBAL NEWS | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 1:24AM IST
The designer Conner Ives hoped to do some good with his Protect the Dolls T-shirt. Worn by celebrities, and sold out online, the shirts are raising money for a trans cause.
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I.R.S. Head Is Ousted in Treasury Leader Bessents Struggle With Musk
GLOBAL NEWS | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 1:24AM IST
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained to President Trump that the acting commissioner had been installed without his knowledge.
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Head of I.R.S. Is Ousted in Treasurys Power Struggle With Elon Musk
GLOBAL NEWS | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 1:10AM IST
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained to President Trump that the acting commissioner had been installed without his knowledge.
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Cybersecurity adoption measures: Sebi tells banks to share updates
INDIA BUSINESS | Sat, 19 Apr 2025, 12:37AM IST
SEBI has requested banks to provide updates on their progress in implementing the Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience Framework (CSCRF). Banks are required to share details on the adoption of CSCRF controls and any challenges faced. While the initial deadline was extended twice, SEBI has emphasized that there will be no further extensions beyond June 30, 2025.
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