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A TRADE deal between America and China has been agreed, the White House has announced.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said “substantial progress” had been made with his Beijing counterpart during talks in Geneva.

He said details would be revealed tomorrow,

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OMAHA, Neb. — It was closing in on 1 p.m. here when Warren Buffett, seated onstage before a rapt audience of about 40,000 at the CHI Health Center, said that he was getting a “five-minute warning.”

To most of those gathered in Omaha, Nebraska, for the annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway,

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President Donald Trump is leveraging the power of the American economy to open China to U.S.

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Aggressive hybrid mutual funds have been gaining traction among investors amid continued volatility in the capital markets, with the asset base of the category surging to ₹2.26 lakh crore in April 2025, an increase of 12% compared to a year ago.

Also, the investor base expanded significantly, with the number of folios increasing by 3.5 lakh over the past year,

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Apart from enhancing index options position limits using Future Equivalent (FutEq) Open Interest, SEBI is also planning to introduce a flexible framework for index futures position limits.

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• Amid heightened uncertainty stemming from the trade war, the Federal Reserve is widely expected to hold its benchmark short-term borrowing rate steady at its meeting this week.
• From credit cards and mortgage rates to auto loans and savings accounts, all sorts of consumer borrowing costs are impacted by Fed moves, even a decision to keep rates unchanged.

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