As Northwestern wraps up a second season of playing football at a small lakefront field shared with the lacrosse and soccer teams, workers are busy building out a new $862 million football stadium in Evanston.
This year alone, Hallmark has 80 hours of original holiday-themed programming, including two unscripted series, two scripted series, a holiday special and 24 movies.
Warren Buffett concludes his long tenure as Berkshire Hathaway CEO today. Gregory Abel assumes day-to-day leadership. Investors now assess Berkshire's future without Buffett's direct operational guidance. The conglomerate, built into a financial giant, faces new challenges in capital allocation and governance. Buffett's philosophy of patience and enjoyment of work remains, but his singular influence departs.
As India approaches 2026, investors are shifting focus from dominant sectors to lagging ones like IT, real estate, and platform businesses. Rajat Sharma sees significant opportunity in IT, citing depressed valuations and potential currency tailwinds, while also favoring select fintech and platform companies with strong distribution.
Indian markets experienced significant shocks, including a depreciating rupee and massive FII sell-offs, despite a robust macro environment. This disconnect, driven by AI trade flows and trade deal delays, led to broader market carnage. However, with valuations normalizing and reforms accelerating, 2026 could see a shift as the rupee stabilizes and FII flows potentially return.
As markets step into 2026 amid shifting global cues, volatile flows, and divergent sectoral trends, stock selection is set to matter more than broad index moves. Analysts believe 2026 will reward companies with strong balance sheets, earnings visibility and pricing power, even as macro uncertaintiesfrom interest rates to geopolitical riskslinger. But investors willing to ride momentum could consider three stocks suggested by Sumeet Bagadia, Executive Director at Choice Broking to make handsome gains up to 20%. Take a look!
Top brokerages highlight selective opportunities across Indian equities, with Motilal Oswal bullish on V-Mart Retail and VA Tech Wabag, while Morgan Stanley remains cautious on L&T Finance despite earnings upgrades.
