Shares of IndiGo Airlines fell sharply, dropping nearly 9% to ₹4906.00 apiece on Monday. The shares fell for seventh consecutive session, with price falling by 16% in the 1st week of December, reported Financial Express. For context, IndiGo cancelled over 2,000 flights this month, causing massive disruptions across India. So far, the airline issued nearly ₹872 crore in refunds.

An X user opposed US-based startup Metaview's banner outside IIT-Delhi which offered to sponsor $100,000 fee on H1-B visas imposed by the US, saying, "[The] fee should be per year, not one time fee." The company's Co-Founder and CTO Shahriar Tajbakhsh jokingly responded to the post, saying, "Make it per day. I’ll set up a recurring payment."

French President Emmanuel Macron warned that EU may take action against China if it fails to fix its growing trade imbalance with the bloc. "I'm trying to explain to...Chinese that their trade surplus isn't sustainable because they're killing their own clients...by importing hardly anything from us," Macron said. France's goods trade deficit with China reached around $54.7 billion last year.

Indian markets tumbled sharply this week, erasing ₹7.5 lakh crore of investor wealth. Nifty, midcap, and smallcap indices faced broad declines as global cues, US Fed policy outlook, and heavy IPO activity added pressure. With liquidity and macro uncertainties weighing on sentiment, experts advise investors to stay cautious, focus on quality stocks, and maintain long-term strategies.

Startups can take away clear lessons from HDFC Tech Innovators 2025, such as prioritise customers, execute with discipline, hire smarter teams and build strong governance. Vikram Gupta highlighted how iconic companies often grew during lean capital phases, showing that clarity, resilience and solid fundamentals matter more than aggressive fundraising in today’s evolving startup ecosystem.

US futures edged higher on Monday as traders brace for the Fed policy decision, with markets pricing an 87% chance of a rate cut. Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 futures gained modestly, extending last week momentum. Despite the optimism, retail sentiment for SPY and QQQ stayed bearish, while stocks like NFLX, CFLT, BA, LLY and IMMX drew attention.

IBM is reportedly nearing an $11 billion deal to acquire Confluent, offering a 36% premium as it targets the company's fast-growing real-time data-streaming platform. Confluent continues to post double-digit revenue growth, rising cloud share, solid enterprise adoption, and improving margins, all key assets as AI-era data infrastructure becomes increasingly valuable.

Amid the weakening of the rupee against the US dollar, BJP MP Manoj Tiwari said that people in our country carry rupees in their pockets and make purchases with rupees. "We have nothing to do with the dollar. Whether the dollar becomes expensive or cheap, it will have no effect on the people of our country," Tiwari added.

To become a crorepati by retirement, a 25-year-old person should invest ₹2,000 monthly in SIP with a 12% return rate. By age 60, the person would then have a corpus of ₹1,29,90,538. At the same return rate, a person aged 30 should invest ₹3,000 monthly to make a retirement corpus of ₹1,05,89,741, respectively. Meanwhile, a 35-year-old would invest ₹6,000 monthly.

Amid nationwide IndiGo chaos, Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu called for greater competition in India's aviation sector. "This is the time to start a new airline in India," said Naidu while delivering a detailed statement in Rajya Sabha on the crisis. "An example will be set not just for IndiGo but for all in aviation sector," he added.