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The Sensex defied gravity for the eighth straight session to finish at yet another record high on Wednesday, as positive global cues and robust foreign fund inflows fuelled risk-on sentiment. The government approving a Rs 2-trillion production-linked incentive package for various sectors, also buoyed investors, traders said. After touching its all-time peak of 43,708.47 during a see-saw session, the Sensex settled 316.02 points, or 0.73 per cent higher, at 43,593.67. Similarly, the Nifty vaulted 118.05 points, or 0.93 per cent, to close at a record 12,749.15. Intra-day, it touched its all-time high…

Whether you have a brick-and-mortar business or are thinking of taking advantage of the big Good End or Cyber Monday sales, now is the best time to be online.Free Book Preview Ultimate Guide to Facebook Advertising Get a glimpse of how to use Facebook’s marketing resources to your business’s advantage. November 10, 2020 7 min readThis article was translated from our Spanish edition using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process.Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The year-end shopping season begins amid a “new normal” brought on by the pandemic. With social distancing…

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After a frenzy of vaccine optimism lifted global stocks to a record and sent havens into a tailspin, some strategists said the moves may have gone too far and tough questions remain unanswered. News that the inoculation developed by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE was more than 90 per cent effective in preventing Covid-19 infections sparked a surge of bets Monday on stocks such as cruise operators and airlines that wilted amid the pandemic. Traditional refuges such as Treasuries, gold, and the yen slumped. But experts said the shot still has hurdles to clear, adding questions…

November 9, 2020 6 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The idea of “The Brand Called You” was introduced 10 years before Mark Zuckerberg launched the first version of Facebook. In it, Tom Peters states, “We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc.”  Suppose personal branding plays a significant role in your business, you might be re-thinking of how you can communicate with your followers in a better way right now.  While the pandemic has influenced every area of life, from relationships to technological development, your tribe might be tired of hearing about it. At…

Life insurers reported a 32 per cent jump in new business premiums (NBP) in October, helped by healthy growth in single premiums and group non-single premiums. This comes after the industry saw a 16 per cent rise in NBP in the September quarter. NBP is the premium acquired from new policies in a year. Life insurers, 24 in total, earned NBP of Rs 22,776 crore in October, compared to Rs 17,271.86 crore in the corresponding period last year. In September, NBP was up 26.47 per cent at Rs 25,366.32 crore. …

Leading stock exchange NSE on Monday said it will launch its first agricultural commodity futures contract for crude degummed soybean oil on December 1. The contract will facilitate the soybean oils processing and allied industries in India and overseas, a perfect hedging tool for managing their price, the National Stock Exchange said in a statement. The contract is a monthly expiry cash settled futures contract with a trading lot size of 10 metric ton (MT) and price basis as Kandla. Vikram Limaye, MD and CEO of NSE, said the exchange is…

November 6, 2020 5 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, we’d already begun our migration into cyberspace. We were seeing facts like 3.5 billion daily searches on Google and three-quarters of the internet reading blogs. What the pandemic has done is simply accelerate our move online. Today, we’re looking at startling numbers such as 6 billion daily searches on Google, a global digital population of 4.5 billion and 2.7 million monthly Facebook users. This means that for online-savvy professionals, the shift towards cyberspace means more instead of less work. For instance,…