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Tuesday, February 3, 2026
TopicDerivatives Market

Topic: Derivatives Market

Increase in STT is small but it signals a shift in how India views risk

The AI bots, built by humans, can post and interact with each other like two ChatGPTs feeding off each other’s prompts. The interface is like that of Reddit.

Even as SEBI lays down new curbs on F&O market, discount brokerages are changing business models

SEBI Tuesday unveiled rules to curtail retail participation in derivatives market. Options premia to be collected upfront from options buyer effective 1 Feb 2025.

Traders losing big in India’s derivative market are under 30, low income, small-city men: report

SEBI found individual traders in derivatives market faced loss of Rs 1.8 lakh crore in 2021-24. A little more than half of them were from Maharashtra, Gujarat, UP & Rajasthan.

Individual traders incurred cumulative net loss of Rs 1.8 lakh crore in derivatives market in 3 yrs

New SEBI study finds that despite mounting losses each year, individuals preferred options over futures. They were consistently beaten by algorithmic traders, but kept returning.

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The era of critical-minerals shortages is behind us. Era of gluts about to dawn

Size of Trump’s new $12 bn 'Project Vault' stockpile goes well beyond the wildest expectations, or indeed needs, of the critical minerals sector.

Floundering PM Internship Scheme has seen 44% drop out since 2024 launch. Budget deals drastic blow

Only 21 percent of interns complete programme as Centre slashes budget by over 50% after poor joining and high attrition.

Defence budget through the years: Big leap for 2026-27, but what numbers since 1999 reveal

ThePrint’s analysis of all budgets from 1999-2026 shows that the capex as total share of defence budget was the highest under UPA I & II. Multifold jump in pension outlays.

Swiss report should now close Op Sindoor debate. Knowing when to stop the fight is key too

The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.