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MORNING BRIEF
Markets · Logistics · Technology · Startups · Three lines worth keeping
Saturday, 22 August 2026
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Before the open
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NIFTY 50 last closed at 24,252.00 (+0.08%). |
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Institutional flows: FII -543 Cr; DII +2,124 Cr. |
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Overnight US: S&P 500 (SPY) +0.41%; Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) +0.35%. |
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Macro moves: ETH +6.83%; BTC +4.63%. |
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Where things stand
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India
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| Index |
Close |
Change |
| NIFTY 50 |
24,252.00 |
+0.08% |
| BankNIFTY |
57,761.95 |
+0.46% |
| India VIX |
11.20 |
+4.09% |
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Overnight
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| Index |
Close |
Change |
| S&P 500 (SPY) |
765.72 |
+0.41% |
| Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) |
713.44 |
+0.35% |
| S&P Futures |
70.19 |
-2.72% |
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CRUDE (USO)
134.64
+0.07%
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GOLD
4,608.15
+0.09%
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USD/INR
95.68
-0.03%
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TQQQ
$71.17
+0.98%
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BTC
$78,011
+4.63%
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ETH
$2,516
+6.83%
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| Leading |
Metal
+0.86%Realty
+0.40%
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| Lagging |
FMCG
-0.74%Auto
-0.60%
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Worth reading
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Startups
Outer Biosciences, founded by Michael Polansky, has kept living human tissue alive outside the body for over a month.
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Technology
Chris Mecray, CFO at ITG, joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss the company's performance since its July 1 IPO, and its role in the AI buildout as a fiber and communications…
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Logistics
Panama Canal will reduce Neopanamax daily slots to nine from ten starting Sept. 3, and Panamax slots to 25 then 23, due to El Niño drought concerns.
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Markets
S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended Friday higher but posted weekly losses amid bond yield volatility and Middle East uncertainty.
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Also on the radar
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Startups
Letara raised ¥2.6 billion to expand from satellite thrusters into large rocket systems for space and defense markets.
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Three lines to think about
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| Practice |
Anxiety enters at the moment you take ownership of the result rather than the work. |
| Leverage |
Choose your battles by what losing costs, not by how right you are. |
| Signal |
Write the summary first. If it will not compress, the thinking underneath is not finished. |
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Market data: NSE India, Twelve Data, Yahoo Finance and CoinGecko. Headlines from public RSS feeds; titles link to their original sources. Story blurbs are drafted by Claude from the linked articles — all figures above come from the data sources, not the model. Personal research note; not investment advice.
Udit Kakar · Morning Brief · Research, not investment advice
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