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Quant-based funds yet to prove their mettle

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-09-19T15:23:31+00:00

Factor choices, rebalancing rules and human intervention shape risk and returns differently across these schemes

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A model-driven approach to market cycles

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-09-19T15:23:27+00:00

Baroda BNP Paribas Balanced Advantage’s quantitative, counter-cyclical approach to asset allocation has worked well

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Pick of BL commodities -September 20, 2026

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-09-19T15:21:25+00:00

The surge in global copper prices will likely lead to higher prices for electric vehicles and home appliances. It is a costly necessity for corporates. Investments in physically-backed gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) continued in the positive territory for the eighth week in a row. This year, consumers may have to pay more for premium and Basmati rice varieties as their production is feared to be low. The Indian government, as part of its efforts to curb price rise, has allocated a record quota for sugar sales in the September 16-30 fortnight. India could end up importing a record high of 1

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EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : la Chine s’indigne du vote de la loi Graham permettant de sanctionner Moscou et ses partenaires

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-09-19T15:18:45+00:00

Pékin a dénoncé, samedi, des mesures « unilatérales », non autorisées par l’ONU et « sans fondement » en droit international, après la promulgation d’un nouveau train de sanctions qui autorise Donald Trump à imposer des droits de douane aux grands importateurs d’hydrocarbures russes.

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How the global bond yield surge will impact currencies

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-09-19T15:10:05+00:00

With government bonds falling in major global economies as yields surge, their currencies too will start reflecting this. Here’s how and why the changing yield differentials will matter

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Giving working capital the attention it deserves

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-09-19T15:08:51+00:00

Here’s how you can draw insights from analysing working capital, one of the parts that’s often overlooked in fundamental analysis

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Thick smoke seen near Riyadh airport after air-raid alerts in Saudi capital

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-19T14:54:29+00:00

Authorities also issued warnings for Jeddah and Yanbu, a major industrial port and home to vital oil facilitiesFlames and a large plume of black smoke were seen rising above Riyadh airport in Saudi Arabia on Saturday after the government sent air-raid alerts to citizens by phone overnight warning of aerial attacks.Explosions were heard in the capital and firefighters battled to extinguish the flames of a burning fuel tank emblazoned with the logo of the Saudi oil company Aramco near the city’s King Khalid international airport. Continue reading...

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Jewish heirs of Holocaust victims sue California museum over Nazi-looted art

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-19T14:52:24+00:00

Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum holds 16th-century paintings stolen by the Nazis during the second world warJewish heirs of Holocaust victims and their representatives have filed two lawsuits in California staking their claims to Nazi-looted paintings that still hang on the walls of prominent museums in Los Angeles and Auschwitz.This pair of lawsuits are the first to be filed after the recent passage of laws by California and the US Congress, which strengthen US-based claims to artwork that were forcibly taken from Jewish families during the second world war. Continue reading...

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MS Now and CNN say their reporters were denied access to White House after Trump media ban

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-19T14:39:30+00:00

President said he was banning MS Now, CNN and Politico journalists, saying of their coverage: ‘You get sick of it.’News outlets MS Now and CNN said their journalists were denied access to the White House grounds on Saturday morning, a day after Donald Trump said he would ban them ,and the website Politico from the executive branch complex.MS Now said a reporter and a cameraman had been denied access and had their White House press passes confiscated by the US Secret Service at a security gate outside the West Wing. CNN reported that its reporter Betsy Klein was also denied access and had her p

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MS Now says reporters denied access to White House after Trump media ban

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-19T13:56:09+00:00

President said he was banning MS Now, CNN and Politico journalists, saying of their coverage: ‘You get sick of it.’News outlet MS Now said its journalists were denied access to the White House grounds on Saturday morning, a day after Donald Trump said he would ban the news channel and two other news outlets, CNN and Politico, from the executive branch complex.The outlet said a reporter and a cameraman had been denied access and had their White House press passes confiscated by the US Secret Service at a security gate outside the West Wing. Continue reading...

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In Russia, the election result is easy to guess. Much else there is uncertain.

Source: Washington Post - World · Published: 2026-09-19T13:35:39+00:00

Russians are voting in parliamentary elections this weekend but, in contrast to the many uncertainties of life in today’s Russia, the outcome — in favoring the governing party, United Russia — is assured.

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