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Reuters reported on Friday that at least four Chinese-owned supertankers were shipping Russian Urals crude to China and a fifth supertanker was shipping crude to India, with the oil available at a discount following the imposition of an oil price cap by the Group of Seven (G7) nations.

Annual growth in Chinese gross domestic product for the fourth quarter is expected to be reported as only 1.8%, so any upside surprise could lend support to trade-exposed currencies, such as the Aussie.

Raymond has seen a strong recovery post Covid. It also entered the real estate business using its land parcel in Thane and has started other joint development projects in Mumbai. These projects have a net positive cash flow thanks to land ownership and delivery before schedule.

"This incentive scheme will promote digital payments by incentivising banks to build a robust digital payments ecosystem and to promote RuPay debit cards and BHIM-UPI as low-cost digital payments mode across all sectors and segments of population. In line with the Budget announcement, the scheme will also promote UPI Lite and UPI 123PAY as economical and user-friendly digital payments solutions," the notification said.

As per revised outlook the brokerage has slashed its EPS estimates by ~5% during FY23-24E.

Higher rates lifted returns on bonds, making non-yielding gold less desirable for financial investors, and pushed the dollar to its strongest in 20 years, making dollar-priced gold costlier for many buyers.The weakening U.S. currency and bond yields "will become macro tailwinds for the yellow metal, pushing gold above $2,000/oz in the coming months," said analysts at Bank of America

The brokerage said Jio’s renewed focus on acquiring high ARPU (average revenue per user) customers over the past few quarters could mean that the telco will refrain from implementing a 4G tariff hike in 2023, leading to lower-than-expected Ebitda growth.

The company plans to disrupt the online retail trading space with three similar revolutionary platforms over the next two years in India and in the US.The Hedged app is available on the Google Play Store, and will be available on the Apple App store later this month.

The euro hit a fresh nine-month top of $1.0874 in early trade before retreating to last stand 0.16% lower at $1.0816, while the Australian dollar breached the key $0.7000 level for the first time since August, before dipping back to $0.6962.

The company has fixed the record date as January 18. Providing a clarification on the record date, the company in a BSE filing said, “This is in reference to our earlier intimation regarding the record date for the purpose of bonus shares, whereby the company has fixed January 18, 2023, as the ‘record date’ for the purpose of determining the names of members who shall be entitled for allotment of bonus equity shares.