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Mumbai: A spike in bond yields driven by elevated oil prices amid the West Asia tensions may have opened opportunities for investors in debt schemes, according to money managers. Short-term debt funds investing in bonds maturing over 2-3 years and schemes betting on long-term government securities are best poised to benefit from the higher yields, they said. The yield on benchmark 10-year government bonds rose from 6.67% to 7.12% amid the war before easing to around 6.97% on April 9 on concerns the recent oil price surge would stoke inflation. While the Reserve Bank of India kept interest rates unchanged…

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Trina Henry. Photo: Supplied From managing cosmetic counters at Pacific Fair to becoming one of Queensland’s top 150 agents, Trina Henry has built a successful real estate career on the Gold Coast spanning 25 years. Trina Henry’s journey into real estate began when she was looking for a career that would allow her to balance work with raising her children. “I’m a cosmetician by trade and I worked at Pacific Fair, managed those cosmetic counters for many years and then I wanted to have children,” Trina said. “I got into real estate because it gave me flexibility to look after…

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Lancashire Police launch investigation after death of Fleetwood woman, 72, linked to silver poisoning | Iconic MediaA police investigation is ongoing to discover how a 72-year-old woman came to have silver poisoning in her system.Linda Stuchfield died in Blackpool Victoria Hospital in 2021 after being admitted with illness following her return from a holiday in Cornwall with her new partner.A Home Office post mortem revealed her cause of death was a bowel infarction but it also showed possible evidence of silver toxicity poisoning.An inquest review hearing at Blackpool Town Hall five years after Ms Stuchfield’s death heard a Lancashire Police…

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Samir Arora backed Helios Flexi Cap Fund increased its stake in HDFC Bank by adding nearly 13 lakh shares to its portfolio whereas it made complete exit from Hindustan Petroleum Corporation and Indian Oil Corporation, according to the monthly portfolio disclosure by Helios Mutual Fund.Amid the decline of 17% in the share price of HDFC Bank in March, the flexi cap fund added 12.77 lakh shares of this stock taking the total count to 44.90 lakh in March compared to 32.12 lakh shares in February.Also Read | Parag Parikh Flexi Cap Fund raises stakes in TCS, ITC and 14 other…

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When U.S Trade Representative Jamieson Greer sat down with his Chinese counterparts in Paris last month, he wasn’t there to relitigate China’s economic trajectory. He was there to lay the foundation for a new trading order and institutionalize a realistic approach to confronting China’s distorted economic system.Greer proposed a “Board of Trade,” a mechanism through which Washington and Beijing will identify, sector by sector, the terms of bilateral trade. It will likely be on the agenda when President Trump and General Secretary Xi Jinping meet in Beijing next month. Greer’s proposal is the clearest signal yet that the Trump administration…

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Warner Bros. Pictures Back in July last year, tickets for IMAX 70mm screenings of Christopher Nolan’s next feature “The Odyssey” went on sale a full year before the film’s release. The 18 cinemas involved offered only one session per day for the film’s opening weekend – specifically 7pm ones – and unsurprisingly, they were snapped up in minutes with nearly all sessions sold out after just one hour of availability. Well, it just happened again yesterday, this time for Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Three”. Yesterday, tickets for the 7pm opening weekend 70mm IMAX screenings went on sale with only about…

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