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Mumbai Rains LIVE Updates: IMD Issues Orange Alert In City Today; Local Trains Running Late

Mumbai Rains News LIVE: Local Trains Running LateMumbai local trains for Central, Harbour and Western line are running 8-10 minutes late, as per M-Indicator data as of 7:45 a.m.Mumbai Rains News LIVE: Heavy Rains Over Andheri - Ghatkopar, Navi MumbaiHeavy rains over...

Stock Picks Today: Ashok Leyland, Anupam Rasayan, BPCL, Vodafone Idea On Brokerages’ Radar

Ashok Leyland Ltd., Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd., Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd., Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., and Vodafone Idea Ltd. are among the companies with brokerage commentary today. Analysts have shared their insights, revised their target prices...

Stock Market Live: GIFT Nifty Near 24,900 After Trump-Putin Summit; Vi, Glenmark Pharma, Inox Wind In Focus

Stock Market News Live: F&O Cues To WatchNifty August Futures down by 0.17% to 24,685 at a premium of 54 points.Nifty August futures open interest down by 0.66%Nifty Options Aug. 21 Expiry: Maximum Call open interest at 25500 and Maximum Put open interest at...

‘Zelensky Can End The War Or…’: Trump Ahead Of Meeting With European Leaders On Ukraine War

US President Donald Trump said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky can 'choose to end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight.' Trump will host Zelensky and his European allies on Monday for their first meeting since...

European Leaders To Join Zelensky For Meeting With Trump

European leaders will join Volodymyr Zelensky at his high-stakes meeting with Donald Trump on Monday in Washington, a show of support as Ukraine’s leader faces growing US pressure to agree to a quick peace deal with Russia that involves ceding swaths of territory....

Oil Dips As Focus Shifts To Zelenskiy’s Meet With Trump After Putin Summit

Oil slipped as traders turned their attention to Donald Trump’s meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday, with the Ukrainian leader facing US pressure to reach a peace deal with Russia that involves ceding territory.Brent was below $66 a barrel after closing 1.5%...

Mumbai Rains News LIVE Updates: IMD Issues Orange Alert As Heavy Rainfall Continues In City Today

Mumbai Rains News LIVE: IMD Issues Orange AlertWelcome to our Mumbai rains blog!The Indian Meteorological Department has issued an orange alert for Mumbai for today and tomorrow, as per its seven-day bulletin. The city woke up to a rainy morning, continuing to be...

Asian Stocks, Oil Dip Modestly Ahead Of Trump’s Talks With Zelenskiy: Markets Wrap

Asian shares and crude oil drifted downward as caution prevailed before Donald Trump’s talks with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.Shares in Japan edged higher while Australia’s and South Korea’s retreated. Futures for the S&P 500 inched up 0.1%. Brent...

Stock Market Today: All You Need To Know Going Into Trade On Aug. 18

Good morning!Markets On Home TurfThe benchmark equity indices closed flat on Thursday, Aug. 14. Shares of Wipro, Eternal and HDFC Life contributed positively to the index.The NSE Nifty 50 ended 11.9 points or 0.05% higher at 24,631.3 and the BSE Sensex ended 57.7...

Mumbai Rains Highlights: Mumbai Monsoon Descends Heavily Across The City

Mumbai Rains Highlights:Heavy rains over Mumbai caused waterlogging in Vikhroli, Ghatkopar, Bhandup, AndheriMumbai's primary source of water supply Tulsi Lake overflowed as the city and adjacent received heavy rainfall. The Indian Meteorological Department has issued...

Bitcoin Slides As Whales Take Profits; Ethereum, Dogecoin Also Slip: Analyst Rules Out Major ETH Correction Before It Hits $5,000

Leading cryptocurrencies slid on Sunday night as large investors began to lock in gains.

Cryptocurrency Gains +/- Price (Recorded at 10:05 p.m. ET)
Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) -1.09% $116,272.17
Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH)
               
-0.51% $4,390.04
XRP (CRYPTO: XRP)                          -2.27% $3.03
Solana (CRYPTO: SOL)                          -1.13% $186.59
Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE)                          -1.48% $0.2285

Cryptos Sell Off As Shorts Spike

Bitcoin tumbled below $116,000 overnight, while trading volume rose slightly by 5% in the last 24 hours. The decline comes after the apex cryptocurrency reached an all-time high of $124,000 earlier this week.

According to CryptoQuant, the Exchange Whale ratio, the ratio of the top 10 inflows to the total inflows of the exchange, surged sharply, suggesting that whales were cashing out.

Ethereum recorded a similar plunge, dropping from an intraday high of $4,575 to below $4,400.

Nearly $350 million was liquidated from the market over the last 24 hours, with bullish long traders losing $236 million.

Bitcoin’s open interest rose 0.15% over the last 24 …

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Stock futures tick higher following back-to-back winning weeks: Live updates

The three major indexes are coming off positive weeks.

White House envoy claims Russia agreed to ‘Article 5-like’ security guarantees for Ukraine

Special Envoy Steve Witkoff's remarks come just days after President Donald Trump met in Alaska with the Russian president to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.

GenScript Biotech Demonstrates Profitable Scale and Strategic Leadership in H1 2025, Establishing Clear Industry Leadership Through Accelerated Growth and Innovation

Rising Global Footprint, Best-in-Class Innovation, and ESG Excellence Set Stage for Sustained Value Creation PISCATAWAY, N.J., Aug. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- GenScript Biotech Corporation (HK.1548), a global pioneer in life sciences innovation, today announced...

Gamblers Now Bet on AI Models Like Racehorses

Prediction platforms are turning the AI arms race into a high-stakes game

The New AI Data Trade: Web Publishers and Startups Look to Cash In

A podcast series about an emerging ecosystem of data brokers who license or sell content from creators to artificial-intelligence companies.

U.S. delegation’s India visit reportedly called off as trade tensions simmer

The visit that was expected to take place between Aug. 25 and Aug. 29 will likely be rescheduled, NDTV reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

Indian Market News

US-Sanctioned Russian LNG Heads to Asia in Search for Buyers

Several liquefied natural gas tankers are heading to Asia from a Russian export facility sanctioned by the US, potentially testing Washington’s resolve to crack down on the trade amid high-level talks over the war in Ukraine.

Crypto Market News

Bitcoin Slides As Whales Take Profits; Ethereum, Dogecoin Also Slip: Analyst Rules Out Major ETH Correction Before It Hits $5,000

Leading cryptocurrencies slid on Sunday night as large investors began to lock in gains. Cryptocurrency Gains +/- Price (Recorded at 10:05 p.m. ET) Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) -1.09% $116,272.17 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH)                -0.51% $4,390.04 XRP (CRYPTO:...

Thailand plans launch of a crypto payment sandbox for tourists

The Thai government is reportedly set to allow tourists to exchange crypto for Thai baht and make electronic payments through e-money service providers.

Trump Posts ‘Bela’ Online And Gets People Wondering If It Is The New ‘Covfefe’ — Newly Spawned Crypto Tokens Rally

Aside from confusing the internet, President Donald Trump's cryptic ‘Bela' post spawned a bunch of memecoins, which were climbing higher on Sunday. Bela-Themed Tokens Crop Up Obscure tokens began circulating on decentralized exchanges overnight. Solana (CRYPTO:...

Cryptojacker gets 1 year prison after admitting to $3.5M fraud

Charles O. Parks III, who admitted to misusing $3.5 million worth of resources from two cloud computing providers to mine crypto, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison.

Asia Morning Briefing: Crypto’s Rising Leverage Trades Show Signs of Stress, Galaxy Digital Says

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Altseason’s next step depends on China stimulus, investors’ response to recession fears

Central bank stimulus in China and global investors’ response to recession fears will determine if altseason continues.

Brevan Howard, Goldman Sachs and Harvard Lead Billions in Bitcoin ETF Buying Spree

Wall Street ramped up its exposure to bitcoin in the second quarter, adding positions not only in spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) but also in U.S. stocks closely tied to the cryptocurrency’s price, according to new filings with the Securities and Exchange...

Michael Saylor signals Strategy will buy the Bitcoin dip

Saylor signaled an impending Bitcoin purchase by Strategy, as BTC's price hovers around the $117,000 level, down from the all-time high.

Chainlink’s LINK Top Performer Among Top 50 by % Daily Gain, as Analyst Calls It ‘Very Undervalued’

Chainlink’s LINK token jumped 18% to $26.05 on Sunday, according to CoinDesk Data, pacing the top 50 cryptocurrencies by percentage gain as analysts and traders cited momentum and recent fundamental catalysts.What Analysts Are SayingAltcoin Sherpa described LINK as...

Volatility Vanishes Across Markets as Traders Brace for Powell’s Jackson Hole Speech

A pervasive calm has taken hold of asset classes as traders look forward to Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman Jerome Powell's speech at the annual Jackson Hole Symposium, scheduled for Aug. 21-23.Bitcoin's (BTC) 30-day implied volatility, as measured by Volmex's BVIV and...

Bitcoin Mining Profitability Rose 2% in July Amid BTC Price Rally, Jefferies Says

Bitcoin (BTC) mining profitability increased 2% in July as the price of the world's largest cryptocurrency rose 7% while the network hashrate jumped 5%, investment bank Jefferies said in a research report on Friday."We see positive BTC price momentum as most favorable...

Bitcoin Steadies at $118K as Analysts Flag Deeper Pullback Risks and Altcoin Rotation

Bitcoin (BTC) hovered near $118,348 on Sunday, up 0.39% in 24 hours, as two analysts outlined paths that could test traders’ nerves: a dip toward $108K–$112K or a drawn-out range with room for altcoins.Lark Davis argues that if bitcoin continues to slide, the most...

Bitcoin risks new 2025 correction as BTC price uptrend starts 7th week

Bitcoin is almost overdue for another "price discovery correction" after six weeks of gains — will BTC price action copy history?

US should fund Bitcoin strategic reserve with tariff surplus: Author

The proposal included geographically distributed multi-signature cold-storage for secure self-custody, proof of reserves, and a budget cap.

Could Bitcoin Really Hit $280,000 in 2025? This Legendary Trader Thinks So

Renowned trader Peter Brandt has backed a Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) price prediction chart that suggests the cryptocurrency could reach a staggering $280,000 by the end of 2025. What Happened: Brandt endorsed a Bitcoin cycle chart that aligns the four major Bitcoin cycles...

Jack Dorsey Advocates for Bitcoin Use as Everyday Currency ‘As It Was Designed to Be’

Block CEO Jack Dorsey has once again emphasized his stance on Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), advocating for its use as everyday money, a vision originally proposed by Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. What Happened: Dorsey stressed that Bitcoin’s ultimate purpose should be...

State of Crypto: Do Kwon Pleads Guilty

Terra/Luna creator Do Kwon pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiring to commit fraud and one charge of wire fraud on Tuesday, following an earlier not guilty plea and a very lengthy extradition process.You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at...

94% of XRP holders are in profit: Has the price topped?

XRP price could drop by over 20% in the coming weeks due to multiple onchain indicators hinting at a local top formation.

Why Circle and Stripe (And Many Others) Are Launching Their Own Blockchains

Every day, there seems to be a new blockchain for stablecoins.Or at least that’s how it felt this week, when USDC (USDC) issuer Circle announced Arc, its own settlement network, shortly after payments giant Stripe accidentally revealed Tempo, built in collaboration...

Japan to approve first yen-backed stablecoins this fall

Japan’s FSA is set to approve JPYC as the country’s first yen-pegged stablecoin, a move that could reshape demand for Japanese government bonds.