Recently, it has been said that “Japan has returned to a world with interest rates.” The Bank of Japan is moving toward raising policy interest rates, and this is gradually beginning to affect our household finances, including mortgages, savings, and investments. The Bank of Japan raised the policy interest rate to around 1.25% in September 2026,
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Aarav Sharma does not dress up how he began. “My early investments were poorly planned and some funds were very bad,” he says. At times he picked funds for their past returns or on someone else’s say-so, without always understanding what he was buying.
For three years that portfolio grew slowly,
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Building a large investment portfolio takes time, discipline and the ability to invest more as your income grows. There is no single formula for becoming a crorepati. Some investors start with small SIPs, while others build wealth by increasing investments as their salaries rise.
In this piece, we look at how three professionals from Pune built their wealth through different financial decisions but worked towards a similar goal.
A federal appeals court just stripped away the legal structure that made a massive self-driving lawsuit dangerous for Tesla, but the stock fell anyway, and the real threat to its trillion-dollar valuation has nothing to do with this courtroom.
On October 16, 2026, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed the class certification orders in LoSavio v.
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Announcement Date: October 17, 2026
Visiting Senior Market Analyst, Koyo Co., Ltd.
After the close of the US stock market on October 16, global markets entered the weekend. The rebound in Asia on Friday did not spill over into US stocks; the Nasdaq Composite fell 2.15%, the S&P 500 dropped 1.1%,
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October 19, 2026, is a Monday. Both the date and the day of the week coincide with the day the largest stock market crash in history occurred in 1987. In addition to this coincidence, the recent volatility in the market has led to a noticeable increase in social media posts suggesting that “next Monday might be Black Monday.”
October 15, 2026.
Tesla, led by Elon Musk, has finally made a car fly through the air.
What was unveiled at the new Roadster launch event was not just a next-generation EV.
It was a sports car equipped with propulsion technology derived from SpaceX, capable of changing its posture in mid-air and jumping over multiple vehicles.
Tesla unveiled its new Roadster on October 15 (US time), shaking the market. Footage of the car driving on a wall while upside down and performing a backflip in mid-air spread across social media worldwide immediately after the reveal. CEO Elon Musk declared, “The flying car has become a reality,” and the stock price rose by about 5% in pre-market trading on the 16th.
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The Nikkei Stock Average has been unstable lately.
Since May 2026, it has been in a range-bound market between 64,000 and 70,000 yen.
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Cathie Wood, the CEO and founder of Ark Investment Management, owns, through her various Ark ETFs, $220.4 million in Beam Therapeutics (BEAM -5.09%) shares. It is a healthcare company that focuses on gene editing to develop precision medicines.
She has owned shares in Beam through her various Ark Technology ETFs for more than five years.
