Nasdaq slides: Index posts steepest weekly drop since April; AI rally doubts weigh on tech stocks

Representative image (Picture credit: AP) The Nasdaq Composite ended slightly lower on Friday but posted its sharpest weekly loss since early April, as investors questioned how long the artificial intelligence boom could sustain recent market highs. The index slipped 0.21% to 23,004.54, bringing its total weekly fall to around 3%, while chipmakers and technology shares…

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Four new Vande Bharat Express! PM Modi to flag off Bengaluru-Ernakulam, Varanasi-Khajuraho, Lucknow-Saharanpur & Firozpur Cantt-Delhi trains; check time-table

Indian Railways launches four new Vande Bharat Express trains Four new Vande Bharat Express trains! Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Saturday flag off four new Vande Bharat Express trains on important Indian Railways’ routes. Vande Bharat Express trains have become the face of new age railway travel in India, with an aim to offer…

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At close, Groww IPO subscribed 18x

MUMBAI: The Rs 6,632-crore IPO for online financial services platform Groww was subscribed 17.6 times at close on Friday, with institutional investors leading the bidding. However, with the stock market witnessing sharp volatility, the grey market premium (GMP), the mark-up over the upper band of the offer price in the unofficial market for stocks, fell…

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Fat loss drug top pharma seller, Augmentin no 2

NEW DELHI: Weight-loss therapy drug Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro has become the top selling brand in the domestic pharma retail market with sales of nearly Rs 100 crore in Oct, indicating the huge popularity of such treatments across India.Mounjaro has overtaken GSK’s widely prescribed antibiotic and long-established market leader, Augmentin, which totalled sales of Rs 80…

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On Swiggy’s plate: 10,000 crore through QIP

Mumbai: The board of Swiggy on Friday cleared the company’s plan to raise up to Rs 10,000 crore through a qualified institutional placement (QIP), the firm said in an exchange filing. The move follows rival Zepto’s $450 million (close to Rs 4,000 crore) funding which has stoked competition in the growing 10-minute delivery space as…

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T Rabi Sankar: Frauds up since July, battle on

MUMBAI: RBI deputy governor T Rabi Sankar said the fight against digital fraud is far from over, noting that the decline seen earlier this year reversed in July, with cases rising again.He said fraud levels had been falling since the start of the year before showing an uptick mid-year, suggesting that such trends may be…

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Automatic rejection: Donald Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee leaves job-hunting Indian students in US in limbo; ‘like a slap in the face’ | Business

The Trump administration has recently hiked the application fee for the much sought after H-1B visa to a mind numbing $100,000! Indian students in the US who were looking at bagging lucrative jobs are facing a big shock – Donald Trump’s H-1B visa fee hike has left them in a lurch as companies automatically reject…

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‘It’ll be something cool’: Elon Musk promises of moon buggies, humanoid robots after $1 trillion Tesla payday

Tesla CEO Elon Musk celebrated shareholder approval of his record-breaking $1 trillion compensation package with a flurry of ambitious promises, from humanoid robots performing surgery to building vehicles for missions to the Moon and Mars.The vote, which saw over 75% of investors back the deal, clears the path for Musk to expand his stake in…

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‘Some kind of idiot’: Zerodha’s Nikhil Kamath on MBA students; claims ‘colleges are dead’

NEW DELHI: Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath has questioned the value of traditional higher education, especially MBA programs, saying that, “colleges are dead.”Speaking during Zerodha’s 15th anniversary discussion, co-founder Nithin Kamath said that formal education is being rapidly outpaced by open and digital learning platforms.“Colleges are dead. If you’re 25 and still going to an MBA…

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