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Europe’s Stoxx 600 snaps a three-week losing streak as oil eases

The pan-European index closed 0.4 per cent higher on Friday for a 0.5 per cent weekly gain, its strongest week since early August, while energy fell and airlines and banks led.

Pump prices are frozen while oil companies lose Rs 530 crore a day

Petrol and diesel did not move on 26 September across metros, even as ICRA put daily marketing losses at Rs 530 crore and the Indian crude basket had already hit 117.4 dollars a barrel.

Barry Diller just walked away from an $18 billion MGM take-private — and the stock got crushed

People Inc. pulled its $48.30 cash bid for the rest of MGM Resorts. The casino giant stays public, Diller keeps a huge stake, and the premium that propped the share price is gone.

India's wealthiest families are becoming the lender instead of the shareholder

40 to 45 per cent of allocations in many family offices now go to alternatives, and private credit has doubled to $25 billion in five years.

SoftBank pays 9.75 per cent to borrow as the OpenAI bill comes due

The $11.1 billion bond sale is the largest high-yield corporate issue on record, and it exists to fund a single $10 billion payment falling due on 1 October.

Sensex sheds 1,247 points as bond yields, crude and an insurance rule hit at once

The Nifty 50 closed 1.64 per cent lower and financial stocks took the heaviest losses after the insurance regulator proposed capping what insurers and distributors can earn.

Thirteen Nifty stocks dragged the index for five years — and active funds noticed

Names that make up 33.7% of the Nifty returned -0.8% a year from September 2021 to August 2026. Strip them out and the index would have done 11% instead of 7.1%, a 360 One Wealth study shows.

Bitcoin ETFs took in $999 million in a day as the price cleared $87,000

US spot funds posted their largest daily inflow since October 2025, led by BlackRock, ARK 21Shares and Fidelity, while a short squeeze and softer oil helped lift the broader risk tape.

Paramount cleared a $110 billion Warner Bros deal by settling with 12 states

California-led attorneys general dropped their block after film-output quotas, a $1.5 billion domestic production pledge, a $47.5 million worker fund, and a news independence board for CNN and CBS.

ADIA's Platinum Jasmine was set to sell 1.7%. The tape printed ₹2,468 crore instead.

Lenskart's third big secondary in a month: floor price ₹682.45, actual blocks near ₹688, SoftBank's August exit still hanging over the float, and a stock that is still up more than half in 2026.

Foreign investors pulled Rs 23,676 crore out of Indian stocks in 19 days

September selling has undone the Rs 11,045 crore and Rs 10,231 crore that arrived across July and August, with financials sold hardest and healthcare still drawing foreign money.

Five straight weekly losses for Indian government bonds, and the reason starts in Washington

A Federal Reserve hike and an RBI cash squeeze have handed Indian government bonds their fifth consecutive weekly loss, according to a report from Economic Times. Here is what that actually does to a saver who has never bought a bond.

A Fed Hike, a Rupee Near 96 and Why the RBI October Call Just Got Hard

Reports say a 25-basis-point rise by the US Federal Reserve has economists expecting the Reserve Bank of India to follow. Here is the chain that links a decision in Washington to an Indian home loan — and why nothing has been settled yet.

One oil shock, two opposite answers: Tokyo hikes to a 31-year high, London sits still

The Bank of Japan raised rates while the Bank of England held at 3.75 percent, according to reports carried by Economic Times — and the household caught between the pump and the loan repayment is paying for the disagreement.

Eight firms bought about ₹686 crore of Raymond in one session, and it is probably not the signal it looks like

The exchanges' bulk-deal rule was written to show you who is quietly accumulating a stock. On 2026-09-15 it mostly showed who trades the most.

SBI Mutual Fund printed ₹401 crore of Westlife sells in one session — and its own name is on the buy list too

Two bulk tickets, both struck at ₹569.6, against a disclosed total of ₹400.61 crore on 11 September. The record names the seller plainly and leaves the other side unresolved.

Brent hit $107.05 after a Saudi pipeline went down, and Goldman Sachs sketched a $120 scenario

Attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure knocked the kingdom's key East-West pipeline out of service on Tuesday, and both of oil's benchmarks moved higher. For a country that buys its crude abroad, the cost of an outage like that arrives quietly, in a hundred small places.

Iran's claim on 10 ships took crude to $101, and put one hundred twenty dollars back in the conversation

Oil pushed past a hundred dollars a barrel on Thursday after Iran said it had hit ten vessels, according to the Economic Times. Analysts quoted in that report floated a higher level if tension in the Strait of Hormuz continues - a conditional, not a schedule.

Jump Trading and two peers printed ₹723 crore of PC Jeweller sells - then turned up on the buy side

Three named desks disclosed ₹723.07 crore of PC Jeweller selling in one session on September 7 - and the same three names appear among that session buyers. What the exchange record establishes, and what it does not.

Domestic funds put ₹36,742 crore into the cash market as foreign desks pulled ₹11,376 crore out

Over 10 sessions in Strota's FII and DII cash series, foreign institutions were net sellers of ₹11,376 crore while domestic institutions were net buyers of ₹36,742 crore. The daily rows also carry a dating wrinkle worth naming.

Two wires, two prices: did Brent really cross $100 the day Sensex fell 813 points?

One report put Brent crude at $100.07 a barrel and another had it near $99 on the same morning, after Iran's missile strike on a Jordanian base. The Sensex fell 813 points that day, and oil was only one of three reasons the reporting gave.

Junomoneta led ₹433 crore of disclosed Antelopus selling — and four of the six sellers were buyers too

Six firms disclosed ₹433.4 crore of selling in a single session on 9 September. Four of them also show up on the buy side, which looks less like an exit than like inventory changing hands — though the disclosure names no motive.

Copper at a record $14,533 a ton, and a new rival: the double squeeze on India's cable makers

Copper's record run is lifting the main input cost for India's wire and cable makers just as UltraTech's Ultravolt pushes into the sector, according to a report from Economic Times. On the other side of the same trade, Hindustan Copper rose more than 4%.

SoftBank just priced a ¥1 trillion retail bond at 4.75%

SoftBank Group set terms for a seven-year ¥1 trillion Fukuoka SoftBank HAWKS Bond aimed at individual investors, with a 4.75% coupon — well above this year’s retail yen average.