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MORNING BRIEF
Markets · Logistics · Technology · Startups · Three lines worth keeping
Monday, 24 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 +1.49%; Gold +1.08%. |
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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 |
70.21 |
-2.69% |
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CRUDE (USO)
134.64
+0.07%
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GOLD
4,653.38
+1.08%
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USD/INR
95.64
-0.10%
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TQQQ
$71.17
+0.98%
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BTC
$77,450
+0.55%
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ETH
$2,448
+1.49%
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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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Markets
Horizon Industrial Parks IPO lists today with grey market premium of Rs 2 per share, indicating muted listing sentiment despite 1.45x overall subscription.
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Technology
Ebola responders were chased with machetes while trying to bury a victim in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the latest attacks on frontline workers struggling to contain an…
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Startups
AI model Ox Alpha released on OpenRouter with mysterious origins; speculation about developer ranges from Chinese GLM models to Microsoft's MAI.
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Markets
The 200 DMA is used as a key indicator by traders for determining the overall trend in a particular stock.
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Also on the radar
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Technology
SoftBank plans record ¥1 trillion retail bond sale in Japan to fund investment commitments.
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Three lines to think about
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| Practice |
Renouncing action is not detachment. Detachment is acting fully and letting the result be what it is. |
| Leverage |
When you inherit a mess, name it immediately. Silence transfers ownership to you. |
| Signal |
Prefer the boring document with numbers to the exciting essay without them. |
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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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