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The majority of banks comprising an industry working group backed a plan earlier this month to exclude two-thirds of the emissions linked to their capital markets businesses from being attributed to them in carbon accounting, the sources said, following months of discord over the issue.

The past 18 week’s spectacular ~19% up-move has pushed weekly and monthly stochastic oscillators into overbought conditions, indicating the possibility of extended consolidation.

“The most important thing that happened this year in Bitcoin is Larry Fink,” Novogratz said, referring to the investment titan who is chief executive officer at BlackRock Inc., the world’s biggest asset manager

ICICI Securities recommends selling the 3rd August Nifty 19650 call between 95-100 and setting a stop loss of 5 with a target price of 50; the same condition is advised for selling the 3rd August 19650 call. The Nifty is expected to remain at 19500-19800 levels in the near future. According to the India VIX, volatility is at a low of 10.20 and may remain so. Long positions must have a stop loss near the 19500 levels.

Gold prices started the week negatively as mixed US data and weak European economic data increased the strength of the greenback. Although the dollar index started to ease on Tuesday, it recovered during the first half of the week due to positive Chinese sentiment and an upcoming FOMC meeting.

Sectorally, buying was seen in utilities, power, realty, and public sector stocks while selling was seen in IT, banks and oil & gas. Stocks that were in focus include names like Intellect Design Arena which rose by about 20%, Ajanta Pharma gained more than 4% and NCC closed with gains of over 7% to a fresh 52-week high on Friday.

While Reliance Industries, HDFC Bank, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), ICICI Bank, Hindustan Unilever, ITC and Bajaj Finance Limited were the main laggards in the top-10 pack, Infosys, State Bank of India and Bharti Airtel made gains in their market capitalisation (mcap)

The retail finance-focused company plans to raise up to Rs 750 crore through a fresh issuance, while there is also an offer-for-sale portion, where Federal Bank (1.64 crore shares) and private equity player True North (5.38 crore shares) propose to offload shares

The company expects to soon launch co-branded credit cards on UPI, he said, adding that this is going to accelerate revenue as demand for credit is high.Besides, he said, targeted no-cost EMIs every month are going to add to topline and the company is set to push revenue to over Rs 250 crore in FY24 with profit

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