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Indian equities closed sharply lower on 19 October 2026, with Sensex down 876.37 points (1.17%) at 73,852.90 and Nifty 50 declining 257.20 points (1.11%) at 22,888.95. Private Banks led the decline after their Q2 FY27 results missed profit estimates, and HDFC Bank slipped 2% on w

HDFC Bank’s September-quarter (Q2FY27) results may not look impressive at first glance, possibly prompting the 2.3% fall in its shares on Monday. Profit after tax grew just 4.7% year-on-year to ₹19,510 crore, as net interest margin (NIM) fell to its lowest level in 12 quarters. N

With geopolitical developments and commodity prices remaining unpredictable, the near-term market outlook remains cautious. Traders expect further consolidation before a clear recovery can take shape. Three stocks to trade, recommended by NeoTrader’s Raja Venkatraman: KARURVYSYA

Listen to this article in summarized format STATE OF THE MARKETS GIFT Nifty (Earlier SGX Nifty) signals a positive start GIFT Nifty on the NSE IX traded higher by 88.5 points, or 0.39 per cent, at 23,023, signaling that Dalal Street was headed for a positive start on Wednesday. T

The Nifty 50 ended the session at 22,889, down 257 points, or 1.11%. From a technical perspective, the index needs to reclaim and sustain levels above 23,000, followed by the crucial resistance zone of 23,200–23,300, according to Ponmudi R, CEO of Enrich Money. A sustained breako

Listen to this article in summarized format "NSE made up nearly 50-60% of trading volumes in unlisted markets, so with NSE listing, many expect unlisted activity to slow down sharply," said Umesh Paliwal, co-founder, Unlisted Zone. Read more: WhatsApp stock tips: Nithin Kamath wa

'Burnham faces climate revolt' and 'Harry wants to fix feud' Published 2 hours ago Image caption, The Jackdaw gasfield will be given the go-ahead today, according to the Guardian. The paper says the move signals Prime Minister Andy Burnham's commitment to the North Sea oil and ga

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On paper, Jio has industry-leading scale with 533 million telecom customers that underscores numerical superiority in both the mobile and broadband markets. But Jio's monthly average revenue per user (ARPU) at ₹215.6 trails Bharti Airtel's ₹263.9 (India business) as of June 2026

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Listen to this article in summarized format Read more: WhatsApp stock tips: Nithin Kamath warns of more pump-and-dump schemes as ED freezes accounts worth Rs 200 crore ET spoke to four wealth managers to understand how they would invest Rs 10 lakh for conservative, moderate and a

eMudhra root CA issue: the default ngrok agent isn't affected Short version: ngrok wasn’t breached. This is an issue with a third-party certificate authority. If you run the ngrok agent with its default configuration, you don’t need to do anything. A few non-default settings rely

The Company Enrichment Benchmark Bad company data sends your GTM agents after the wrong leads. We tested the leading company enrichment providers on hundreds of U.S. companies to see who delivers accurate data and where information is missing. - Compare providers side by side: Ap

If you ask a developer about their workflow, they can tell you how much faster the latest model is, what their coding agent can now handle, and which new tool has improved the way they work. Kunal Kushwaha has a follow-up question. “What about you?” I recently sat down with Kunal

Resend Forward was a special conference dedicated to the craft of building high-quality software. Today, we gathered with a special group of builders, developers, designers, and creators to celebrate the obsession of building high-quality software. What you missed at Resend Forwa

WorkOS Audit Logs now capture sessions and membership changes automatically WorkOS now writes Audit Log events for sign-ins and membership changes. What gets captured, what does not, and why turning it on is not retroactive. Platform audit log events are Audit Log events that Wor

🧠 Deep Dives & Analysis Voxtral 3: Voice Agent SDK & Speech Models in 50+ Languages (7 minute read) Voxtral 3 offers advanced speech-to-text and text-to-speech capabilities across 50+ languages. Featuring models like Small Transcribe 3 for multilingual transcription and Mini

Nvidia in Talks to Back Firmus After IPO Flop, Report Says Nvidia Corp. is in discussions to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Firmus Grid Ltd. after the Australian AI cloud company abandoned an initial public offering, the Information reported. The move signals that Nvid

Crude oil prices declined due to reported Iran-Pakistan mediation efforts, continued Houthi and vessel attacks, volatility from piling geopolitical events, an unlikely U.S.-Iran agreement before elections, and the absence of clear bearish headlines. Ongoing geopolitical events,

20th October 2026 - Link Blog eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise. This is very, very bad news: The private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates have been compromised. They chain to roots trusted by the Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple and Chrome root programs and by many d

Brown calls on Husted to condemn ad featuring Acton’s mother Ohio Democratic Senate candidate Sherrod Brown pressed his Republican rival, Sen. Jon Husted (Ohio), to condemn a recent advertisement allegedly from Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. “The ad released

The Dell Pro Precision 9 T2 is the Xeon version of the single-GPU tower we reviewed a year ago as the Dell Pro Max Tower T2, and it arrives with two changes at once: a new name, as Dell moves its workstations back under the Precision brand, and a new platform, with Intel’s Xeon 6

DX's Justin Reock on the AI ROI that isn't showing up in the data DX Deputy CTO Justin Reock on why PR throughput keeps climbing, AI spend is up 50x, and the data still shows no clear return on agentic coding tools yet. A year after the Opus 4.5 moment, when a lot of engineering

Oct 20th, 2026 Musk Teases SpaceX-Tesla Merger in Earnings Call Elon Musk said SpaceX and Tesla have formed special committees to explore a potential merger, a preliminary step toward what would rank as the largest corporate tie-up of all time. Ed Ludlow shares the details. Oc

(Bloomberg) -- Gold wavered as traders assessed the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate path and the status of negotiations to end the war in Iran.Bullion swung between a gain of 0.4% and a loss of 0.7%. Talks aimed at reaching a deal to end the US-Iran war continue, but reports that

Capital One Financial on Tuesday evening delivered better-than-expected third-quarter results, driven by stronger net interest income and credit performance. Revenue in the third quarter ended Sept. 30 increased 6.4% year over year to $16.34 billion, beating the $16.27 billion co

Enrollment declined due to negative user experiences with the technology platform, including the new Launchpad overlay, which created friction for parents, students, and teachers, impacting applications and retention. Management is hiring a new CIO, halting non-value-add initiati

Elon Musk says Tesla-SpaceX merger being considered - Published Elon Musk has said he likes the idea of a merger of Tesla and SpaceX, two of his most notable companies, and it is under active consideration. "Do I think it would be a good idea? Yes," Musk said during a call with f

Search fieldHome page Seeking Alpha - Power to InvestorsSearch for Symbols, analysts, keywordsAbout PremiumCreate free accountLog in Earnings Call Insights SpaceX signals $33B-$37B Q1 2027 revenue while targeting 2.5-3 GW compute by end of Q4 Oct 20, 2026, 7:15 PM ETSpace Expl

Cornell responds to Jane Doe’s letter saying she felt ‘unsupported’ by university president A woman known as Jane Doe who accused seven men at Cornell University of sexual assault at a fraternity house sent a letter to the school saying she “felt unsupported and disebelieved” by

Click in for more news from The Hill{beacon} Healthcare Healthcare The Big Story Trump launches national kidney care plan The Trump administration launched the Kidney Care National Plan Tuesday, aiming to improve structural kidney care deficiencies the Health and Human Services (

Tighter rules planned to protect people from cosmetic surgery that goes badly wrong - Published Only properly trained professionals will be allowed to offer high-risk cosmetic procedures like liquid Brazilian butt lifts (BBLs), vampire facials and chemical peels, under long-await

I left state secrets on the train - I'm proof you can recover from the biggest mistake of your life - Published Warning: This story contains a reference to suicide It was an ordinary Tuesday train ride to work when top civil servant Richard Jackson made the biggest mistake of his

On Tuesday, US District Judge Zachary Bluestone dismissed the lawsuit Ann Altman filed last year alleging that her brother, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, had sexually abused her throughout her childhood. As reported earlier by The Guardian, the judge wrote that over the past year, Ann h

Ali G is back. But is the character past its sell-by date? - Published "This is the biggest gathering of cultural appropriators in history," Sacha Baron Cohen tells the camera in his parody of a street accent. Behind him, hundreds of fans cram onto a London Underground escalator,

Where to spot brilliant colours after 'false autumn' spoils some leaf displays - Published This year's display of autumn leaves could look rather different following the UK's hottest summer on record. Months of heat and drought have put trees under stress, causing some to shed th

No jeopardy but loads of fun - Champions League sets new goals record - Published More teams, more games - and more goals. Since the current Champions League format was introduced at the start of the 2024-25 season, Europe's elite club competition has delivered all of the above a

Over the past year, concerns have swirled over the potential dangers posed by artificial intelligence, and debates have raged over the proper path for AI safety. Now, Anthropic appears to have put forth its own vision for how the government might regulate its industry. Politico r

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg is donating $80 million to boost Democratic candidates, marking a last-minute entry in a US midterm cycle dominated by big spenders. Bloomberg is the party’s “late-arriving white knight,” The New York Times wrote, as Elon Musk has poured in more than