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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, by Lawrence Wright. Probably the best-written account of the terrorist group’s origins and the nexus of radical personalities at its center, Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning account is mostly a painstaking record of bureaucratic fa

US inflation remained stubbornly hot in August, adding to pressure on the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates next week. The consumer price index rose 3.4% year-over-year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, jumping 0.4% from the month prior. Gasoline drove more than

Listen to this article in summarized format The central bank on Friday said that it would conduct OMO sale auctions of government securities in three tranches. The first one of Rs 50,000 crore will be held on September 17. There will be two more OMO sales of Rs 25,000 crore each

Bending Spoons just announced a definitive agreement to acquire Miro at a $1.355 billion enterprise value. Five weeks ago it announced Airtable at $1.285 billion, and that one just closed. Two of the better-known B2B brands of the last decade, sold to the same Milan-based rollup,

Roughly half of the $664 billion in its backlog is expected to convert into sales within the next 36 months and much of its newly contracted revenue will not require its own capital, Oracle said, as it relies on client prepayments and customers' own chip supply to build out capac

Indian stocks fell for a fifth straight week on Friday as a widening war in West Asia sent crude oil prices soaring, stoking inflation concerns, while rising US bond yields raised expectations of interest rate hikes by central banks. The benchmark Sensex fell 2.3% over the week,

Leopold Aschenbrenner, the AI researcher whose hedge fund virtually collapsed over the summer, is getting active again in the financial markets via options. His firm, Situational Awareness, has been buying options positions in stocks including Advanced Micro Devices, Bloom Energy

America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts September 11, 2001 was 25 years ago, today. Never Forget. The brain of a venture capitalist can be succinctly summarized as: In venture, no one talks about the mistakes of commission: investing in companies that didn’t return as promise

The United Arab Emirates plans to invest 40 billion euros ($46.4 billion) in Germany as the two countries deepen their economic ties, with data center infrastructure forming a key part of the investment. The investment was announced during a state visit to Germany this week by UA

Major US stock indexes recovered on Friday as crude oil prices pulled back from their recent surge, helping ease some of the pressure on investor sentiment. Markets also found support after the latest US consumer inflation figures came broadly in line with economists’ expectation

Listen to this article in summarized format Once every month, Vineet and Sikha would sit down with their laptops and open an Excel sheet. The routine not only occupied a fixed place on their calendar but evolved into a ritual where household expenses, investments, future goals, s

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday announced that it will conduct Open Market Operation (OMO) sale auctions of government securities worth ₹1 lakh crore in three tranches, as the central bank reviews evolving liquidity conditions in the financial system. According to the R

Listen to this article in summarized format The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 638.99 points, or 1.23%, to 52,703.09, while the S&P 500 gained 1.05% to 7,671.57. The Nasdaq Composite added 1.08% to 26,362.30 at 9:38 a.m. ET. For live updates on US Markets, click here Inflation

Sponsored Joint finances, joint risks: A couple’s roadmap to starting up Vineet Agrawal, co-founder of Jiraaf, a platform that seeks to make fixed-income investment opportunities more accessible to individual investors, and Sikha Agrawalla, the co-founder of People Fraction, an H

Hardware crypto wallet maker Trezor is warning customers for the second time in as many months that one of the companies it relies on was hacked, exposing the data of Trezor’s customers to hackers. In a blog post this week, the hardware wallet maker said a cyberattack on Brevo, a

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will sell bonds worth an aggregate of 1 trillion rupees ($10.47 billion) in the next fortnight starting on September 16. In the first tranche on September 17, the RBI will sell bonds maturing from fiscal 2029 to fiscal 2032 worth 500 billion rupees

In a month marked by a sharp sell-off triggered by heightened tensions in the Middle East, some small-cap stocks have managed to withstand the selling pressure, with Spice Lounge Food Works being one of them. The stock, which has a market capitalisation of less than ₹2,500 crore,

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The national average of $6.05 is up from $5.85 last week and $3.70 from this time last year, according to motor club AAA. Higher diesel prices mean more expensive transportation for a long list of everyday goods. That's because diesel is used for many freight and delivery network

Anthropic said it stopped multiple attempts by scientists this year to use its technology for research that could help develop biological weapons, as experts increasingly fear the threat that AI poses to public safety. The startup gave five examples of times actors “circumvented

Other businesses are also coming up to reduce the pie of weekly options revenue, NSE MD and CEO Ashish Chauhan said during the firm's IPO press conference. Here are some details: Indian regulations do not allow a stock exchange to list on itself, although an exchange's shares can

The Consumer Price Index increased 0.4% last month after edging up 0.1% in July, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Friday. In the 12 months through August, consumer inflation advanced 3.4% after rising by the same margin in July. For live updates on US Mar

GameStop is reopening recently closed stores despite massive retail cuts — select locations return nationwide starting September 11 GameStop hits rewind. GameStop is bringing some of its recently closed stores back to life. The company announced on social media that “select close

Hi friends 👋, Happy Friday and welcome to our 210th Weekly Dose of Optimism. Today is the 25th anniversary of September 11th. I still remember exactly where I was, in my first week of high school on my way to the school chapel, when the news hit. It’s hard to believe that so muc

Stock to buy: Shares of Ratnaveer Precision Engineering Limited ended 7% lower on Friday. The steep correction in the small cap stock was followed by a sharp rally in the stock over the past two trading sessions. The Gujarat-headquartered manufacturer is likely to benefit from it

At IFA 2026, computing chased the high and low ends — AI and budget-focused machines left little for the rest of us MacBook Neo rivals and expensive AI machines are all there is. The computing world is splintering into two. At IFA 2026, the world of laptops continued its trajecto

Update | September 11, 2026, 18:05 IST Furniture and appliance rental startup RentoMojo’s IPO closed with an overall subscription of 72.88X on the final day of bidding today. The IPO received bids for 158.68 Cr shares against the 2.18 Cr shares on offer. QIBs led the demand, with

The penalty has been imposed under Section 15HB of the SEBI Act, according to Sebi's adjudication order. Sebi found that Emami Realty failed to obtain prior audit committee approval for an additional Rs 25 lakh loan to related party Lohitka. The loan was granted on August 8, 2016

In a statement on Friday, Smartworld Developers, an affiliate of realty firm M3M India, said the company has formed a partnership with Kotak Realty Fund, the real estate arm of Kotak Alternate Asset Managers Ltd. "Under Phase I, Kotak Realty Fund will invest approximately Rs 800

The proposal is part of a consultation paper issued on September 11. Sebi has sought public comments by October 2. Market infrastructure institutions, or MIIs, include stock exchanges, clearing corporations and depositories. These entities form the core plumbing of the securities

If an exchange’s shares trade on its own platform, it can raise questions around governance and conflict of interest. The exchange is responsible for running the trading system, monitoring trades, ensuring fair price discovery and acting as the first level of market supervision.

The proposed IPO comprises a fresh issue of 60.12 lakh equity shares and an Offer-For-Sale (OFS) of 19.10 lakh equity shares by promoters and individual shareholders, according to the draft red herring prospectus (DRHP). The company plans to use the proceeds from the fresh issue

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Brent crude neared $110 a barrel in Asian trade, before easing to around $103. Prices gained more than 7.5% this week as attacks on key Middle East shipping routes raised fears of prolonged supply disruptions. The oil rally rattled global debt markets, driving the U.S. 10-year Tr

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The Gulf’s largest sovereign wealth fund is making a bigger push into alternative assets and private markets, targeting tens of billions of additional dollars into buyouts and hedge funds. In its 2025 review, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) said the fund increased its priva

Anthropic said in a report that a UAE-linked influence operation used Claude AI to target the Muslim Brotherhood. The operation used around 300 fake social-media accounts, created a front NGO, ghost-wrote testimony to be used at the UN, and compiled files on European lawmakers, j