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Jio Platforms is making history in India's capital markets. The Reliance-backed telecom giant is raising up to three point two billion dollars in what is the largest IPO ever in rupee terms, and anchor demand has already topped twenty-six billion dollars. BlackRock and Singapore's GIC are among the institutional heavyweights chasing allocation, signaling serious conviction in India's digital infrastructure story.
Staying in crypto, Bitcoin's recent rally is reigniting talk of corporate treasury buying, but analysts are urging caution. Bitfinex's head of derivatives says a return to last year's indiscriminate capital raising looks unlikely. The easy-money playbook that fueled aggressive balance sheet accumulation in twenty twenty-three appears to be closed, even if sentiment has improved.
And in the commodities pit, corn took a hard hit Monday after export shipments fell to a two-year low according to the USDA's weekly inspections report. Futures dropped as much as seven and a quarter cents across the board, with the national cash corn price settling at four dollars and twenty-seven and a quarter cents. Weak export demand is a real pressure point for grain markets heading into the back half of the season.
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