Stock Market Today LIVE: Sensex ends 317 pts higher, Nifty 50 holds above 25,500; PSU banks, metals shine
Stock Market Today LIVE: The Indian stock market benchmark indices, Sensex and Nifty 50, ended with strong gains on Friday, 20 February, reversing early losses, led by strong buying across most sectors.
The Sensex gained 317 points, or 0.38%, to end at 82,814.71, while the Nifty 50 settled at 25,571.25. up 117 points,
Read MoreBest conservative hybrid mutual funds to invest in February 2026
Many mutual fund advisors believe that 2025 is going to be the year of hybrid funds. Because of the uncertainties regarding the global economy and ever rising Indian stock market, advisors have been advising investors to move cautiously. In such a scenario they believe that investing in hybrid mutual funds –
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Read More'We're just going to get worse': 3 reasons Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz thinks the US economy will keep weakening
An esteemed American economist isn’t feeling good about where things are headed.
Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate and Columbia economist, said he believes the US economy would continue to weaken when speaking to CNBC about his macro outlook on Thursday. That’s largely due to a handful of issues he sees hanging over the US,
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Read MoreUS GDP growth slows to 1.4pc, missing forecasts
Washington | The US economy grew less than expected at the end of last year, dragged down by a record-long government shutdown, consumer spending and trade.
Inflation-adjusted gross domestic product increased an annualised 1.4 per cent in the fourth quarter after rising 4.4 per cent in the prior period,
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Read MoreThe Burst
Is SoFi Still a Buy After 2x Bull Run?
Shares of SoFi Technologies have rocketed more than 165% over the past year as the company’s fundamentals have improved dramatically. But with the stock now well above Wall Street’s targets, investors are wondering: has the market gotten ahead of itself?
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It’s no longer just a student-loan lender,
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Read MoreThe Ivy
Anthropic’s Rise Has Been Stunning, How Big Can It Get?
A year ago, Anthropic was a specialist name known mostly within AI research circles. Today, the company behind Claude is scaling so quickly that veteran investors openly call its trajectory “almost without precedent.”
Its sharp focus on enterprise AI, and its increasingly intertwined relationship with Microsoft, has made one comparison hard to ignore: is Anthropic quietly positioning itself the way Microsoft did in the early PC era?
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The Best-Kept Secret in AI Infrastructure? Hint: It’s Not Nvidia
DigitalOcean (NASDAQ: DOCN) just pulled off something few small-cap tech companies have achieved in this market: record revenue, soaring profits, and a guidance hike that caught Wall Street flat-footed. The stock popped by almost a third after Q2 results, and yet, shares remain roughly 12% below where they started the year.
That gap between operational performance and valuation might be the opportunity hiding in plain sight.
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