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NEW YORK, June 19, 2026, 14:03 EDT Gold extended its retreat on Friday, heading for a third weekly loss after the Fed’s tougher inflation stance lifted the dollar and rate-hike bets. Spot gold was down 0.9% at $4,169.44 an ounce by 1306 GMT, after touching $4,119.78, while U.S. futures fell 1.4% to $4,186.50. Silver, platinum and palladium also headed for weekly declines. “Higher-for-longer Fed expectations are toxic for non-yielding assets,” said Nikos Tzabouras, senior market analyst at Tradu.com.

HYDERABAD, June 19, 2026, 21:37 IST MTAR Technologies Ltd jumped as much as 4.9% to ₹8,714 on Friday and ended the session up 0.83% at ₹8,374.50. The stock bucked the trend, with the Nifty 50 sliding 0.64% to close at 24,013.10. (Moneycontrol) MTAR is up about 17% since the June 12 close, but shares closed nearly 4% off Friday’s intraday high. Momentum is strong, but so is the pressure from sellers at these levels. (Investing.com) MTAR’s big May orders—one for $238.76 million and another at $48.68 million—are still being digested by investors. The total is about $287 million, which is

Mumbai, June 19, 2026, 19:35 IST HDFC Bank shares fell Friday, closing at ₹780 on the BSE, down 2.32%. Investors looked past a three-month extension for interim Chairman Keki Mistry and focused on an ex-dividend move. The Sensex fell 0.78%. (MarketWatch) Headline losses look bigger than what actually happened. After the ₹13 dividend is taken out from Thursday’s ₹799 NSE close, the ex-dividend reference price is ₹786. Friday’s close is about 0.8% lower than that. The Nifty 50 dropped 0.64% Friday, but managed a gain of about 1.7% for the week.

PARIS, June 19, 2026, 14:14 CEST PARIS, June 19 (Reuters-style) – Jeff Bezos used a Paris technology conference to reject fears that artificial intelligence will wipe out jobs, arguing instead that the technology will create so much new work that companies may struggle to find enough people. “I totally disagree with this point of view,” Bezos said of concerns that AI will make humans redundant. “I think, in fact, AI is going to create a labour shortage,” he told VivaTech, where he appeared alongside Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp.