Foreign investors are loading up on options to hedge their equity portfolio against a slide in benchmark indices as they worry that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party may not achieve the landslide victory predicted by opinion polls just weeks ago. The last major poll had estimated that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) party would win 342 seats, comfortably above the 272 majority required to return to power. But a lower turnout so far in India's general elections and changing political rhetoric have dampened expectations of a landslide victory for the BJP and its allies.
Nearly half a million Palestinians have been displaced in recent days by escalating Israeli military operations in southern and northern Gaza, the United Nations says. Palestinian officials say Israeli strikes in central Gaza killed at least 12 people overnight and into Tuesday. Around 360,000 Palestinians were driven out of Rafah in Gaza's south over the past week, the United Nations’ agency for Palestinian refugees said.
America's top diplomat will deliver a message of "strong reassurance... in a difficult moment", a US official says.
Thru | Total | Purse | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
F | -17 | $3,600,000 | ||
F | -12 | $2,160,000 | ||
F | -9 | $1,360,000 | ||
F | -6 | $880,000 | ||
F | -6 | $880,000 | ||
F | -5 | $695,000 | ||
F | -5 | $695,000 | ||
F | -4 | $601,000 | ||
F | -4 | $601,000 | ||
F | -3 | $501,000 |