Wednesday, August 19
WASHINGTON: Barely 48 hours after toppling the leader of Venezuela and asserting U.S. rights to the country's oil, President Donald Trump threatened Colombia with a similar fate, declared that Cuba was not worth invading because "it's ready to fall," and once again claimed that Greenland needed to come under U.S. control as an issue of national security.Trump's claims, in interviews Sunday and then a lengthy back-and-forth with reporters aboard Air Force One as it returned from his private club in Florida, offered a glimpse of how emboldened he felt after the quick capture of Nicolás Maduro, the strongman who was seized on narco-trafficking charges."We're in charge" of Venezuela, Trump claimed, as he described his plans to breathe new life into the Monroe Doctrine, the 1823 foundational s
With the benchmark indices hitting fresh all-time highs on Friday—the second day of trading in 2026—, the broader market is abuzz with stock-specific action. In last week’s expiry of the December series, traders carried forward some bullish bets of select stock futures to the January series, while cutting their bearish positions in some. A look at some of the stocks that are poised to be in the thick of action.UNO Minda Change in Open Interest: 12.41% Change in Price: 2.48%Rationale: After breaking out of the congestion zone in August 2025, the stock traded in a triangle formation. “It registered a fresh breakout on Friday from the said triangle formation with a noticeable rise in volumes, and the same is well supported by over 12% of long addition,” said Vipin Kumar, AVP - deriv
