#RupeeFall | Here's a brief history of #Rupee over half a century; ₹30 depreciation from 60/$ to 90/$ has been the sharpest, taking about 12 yrs
It took around 20 years for the #rupee to fall 50% from 30 to 60 per dollar; Rupee first crossed 9 per US dollar in December 1975
Axis Bank down 4%
Axis Bank - Citi Management Meeting Takeaways
Axis Bank Says
NIM recovery delayed by 2 QUARTERS
Banks says NIMs will now bottom either in Q4 or Q1FY26 Vs earlier guidance of Q3
Mgmt. now forecasts a shallow, 'C'-shaped NIM trajectory towards a targeted 3.8% over next 15-18 months
No Stress in Export oriented MSMEs
Gross slippage may see pressure due to Agri Sector issues
Citi Maintain neutral with target of Rs 1285
"I bought 5 lakh shares of HDFC Bank at Rs.40… sold at Rs.52 & and never saw that price again"
Raamdeo Agrawal on the costliest lesson in his investing career !
@_prashantnair#StockMarket#Nifty#BankNifty#Trump
Australia becomes the first country to ban social media for all under-16s. Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X & Snapchat must block minors or face $33M fines.
https://t.co/tQydVIAaFT
#australiasocialmediaban#onlinesafety
Ashamed of hearing TRUTH on Jawahar, Bunty & Babli again ran away from Parliament today.
"Vande Mataram is an ENERGY, but for SOME people, it is an ALLERGY. Nehru limited Vande Mataram to 2 stanzas and today both brother & sister went missing from Lok Sabha"-
@ianuragthakur 🔥
#TrumpTariffs | 'India exported 270 thousand metric tonnes of #BasmatiRice to the US, export price of Indian rice has remained the same despite #tariffs', says Dev Garg, of Indian Rice Exporters Federation (#IREF) to CNBC-TV18
American #rice importers pay tariffs & pass them on to consumers, he further adds
IT WAS WELL-PLANNED SABOTAGE BY @IndiGo6E .HERE ARE 2 HINTS.
1. Co-founder Gangwal Family sold it's 3.4-5.7% stake for ₹11,564 Crore in May 2025 & 1.3-3.1% stake for ₹2,933-7,027 Crore. Now hold stake under 5%
2. “IndiGo started flight cancellations on purpose. Pilots say they were ready to fly, but IndiGo REFUSED.”-
Whistle-blower pilot alleges
MODI SARKAR ALSO MUST TAKE WELL-PLANNED SUCH ACTION THAT IT WILL CHANGE FACE OF BHARAT'S CIVIL AVIATION SECTOR!
This wasn’t the broker’s fault. Brokers clearly said it was a BSE issue.
So why is BSE pretending nothing happened?
@BSEIndia@menakadoshi#NotABrokerIssue
𝐁𝐒𝐄 𝐆𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐱 𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐨 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟒𝟓 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬
A technical outage at the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on Monday, December 8, 2025, triggered chaos across India’s trading community after several Sensex option strikes and futures suddenly stopped working for nearly 45 minutes. The disruption, caused by what a senior BSE official later described as “one of the system partitions being briefly down,” prevented brokers and traders from viewing buy–sell data or executing orders for multiple Sensex derivative contracts.
The immediate impact was widespread: platforms displayed errors on specific strikes - including 85700 and 88100 - while orders were rejected without explanation. Major brokers, including Zerodha, confirmed the outage originated at the exchange level, stating that the issue had affected “Sensex futures and some option contracts across brokers.”
Within minutes, X (formerly Twitter) was flooded with complaints. Retail traders reported frozen tickers, stale prices, and inability to square off positions, raising concerns about losses due to abrupt market data freezing. One widely shared screenshot showed an order window displaying “Exchange: Transaction current instrument stop,” indicating a complete breakdown in real-time data feeds. Concerns centered not only on the outage but also on the absence of immediate communication from the exchange. Many questioned how many trades may have executed at unfair or incorrect prices during the freeze, with users demanding a public loss-impact assessment.
Despite the swift fix, the 45-minute disruption was enough to shake trader confidence. The outage has revived longstanding concerns around infrastructure robustness in India’s capital markets. With the F&O segment under increased scrutiny and SEBI already signalling possible restrictions, this incident is likely to intensify pressure on regulators.
While operations returned to normal, Monday’s incident underscores the fragility of market infrastructure in periods of rapid derivatives expansion. For retail traders - who now form a significant portion of F&O turnover - the episode served as a reminder of the risks they cannot control. Unless exchanges strengthen their technology backbone and communication protocols, such disruptions threaten not only trader confidence but also India’s ambition to lead in global capital markets.
In a market environment evolving this quickly, one can only hope regulators are watching closely.
#BSEGlitch #SensexDerivatives #MarketInfrastructure
Hong Kong’s worst fire in 80 years: 94 dead at Wang Fuk Court after flammable renovation materials turned 7 towers into a firestorm. Alarms were off. Arrests made.
https://t.co/R5aMC1WvaW
#HongKongFire#wangfukcourt#breakingnews#globalnews