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JioBlackRock Mutual Fund has announced changes in features of its six funds including – JioBlackRock Flexi Cap Fund and JioBlackRock Large Cap Fund with effect from August 26.

According to a notice cum addendum these changes in the features of schemes are for the purpose of alignment with “Part IV – Categorization and Rationalization of Mutual Fund Schemes” of the SEBI Master Circular for Mutual Funds dated March 20, 2026.

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JioBlackRock Flexi Cap Fund will now invest 65-100% in equity and equity-related instruments of large cap, mid cap and small cap companies, 0-35% in money market instruments, other liquid instruments and units of mutual fund, 0-20% in units of gold and silver ETFs, and 0-10% in units issued by InvITs.

Earlier the allocation in this flexicap fund was 65-100% in equity and equity-related instruments of largecap, midcap and smallcap companies, 0-35% in debt and money market instruments and 0-10% in units issued by REITs and InvITs.

JioBlackRock Large Cap Fund will now allocate 80-100% in equity and equity-related instruments of largecap companies, 0-20% in equity and equity-related instruments of other than large cap companies, 0-20% in money market instruments, other liquid instruments and units of mutual fund, 0-20% in units of gold and silver ETFs and 0-10% in units issued by InvITs.
JioBlackRock Sector Rotation Fund, a sectoral fund, which earlier allocated its assets in equity and equity related instruments, other equity and equity related instruments and debt and money market instruments will now also allocate in money market instruments, other liquid instruments and units of mutual fund, units of gold and silver ETFs and units issued by InvITs.The JioBlackRock Arbitrage Fund which allocated its assets only in equity and equity related instruments including equity derivatives and debt and money market instruments including the margin money deployed in derivative transactions will now also allocate its money in Gold ETF, Silver ETF and ETCD.

For the JioBlackRock Liquid Fund, the 91 days reference in SID and KIM shall stand replaced with “91 calendar days” with effect from the effective date. “The Scheme will invest in Debt instruments and Money Market instruments with residual maturity upto 91 calendar days,” the notice cum addendum said.

Similarly for the JioBlackRock Overnight Fund, the 30 days reference in SID and KIM shall stand replaced as “30 calendar days” from the effective date. “The overnight fund can deploy not exceeding 5% of the net assets in G-secs and/or T-bills with a residual maturity of upto 30 calendar days for the purpose of placing the same as margin and collateral for certain transactions, according to the notice cum addendum.

The fund house also informed about change in names of its two debt funds – JioBlackRock Short Duration Fund and JioBlackRock Low Duration Fund.

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The JioBlackRock Short Duration Fund will now be called the JioBlackRock Short Term Fund, an open ended short term debt scheme investing in instruments such that the Macaulay duration of the portfolio is between 1 year to 3 years with a relatively high interest rate risk and moderate credit risk.

JioBlackRock Low Duration Fund will now be named as the JioBlackRock Ultra Short to Short Term Fund, an open ended debt scheme investing in instruments such that the Macaulay duration of the portfolio is between 6 months to 12 months with a relatively high interest rate risk and moderate credit risk.

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Tesla shares have had a volatile year, and with the stock currently trading well below its December 2025 all-time high, investors are once again split on where the electric vehicle maker’s stock is headed over the next 12 months. Wall Street’s answer to that question depends heavily on which piece of Tesla’s sprawling business — cars, robotaxis, humanoid robots or artificial intelligence — an analyst chooses to emphasize.

As of Aug. 21, Tesla shares were trading around $349.86, according to Robinhood, well below the stock’s 52-week high of $498.83 and closer to its 52-week low of $297.38. According to Trading Economics, the stock has lost more than 5% over the past four weeks and remains up just 8.34% over the trailing 12 months, a modest gain given the scale of swings the stock has experienced along the way. Morningstar and CNN have both noted the stock is currently trading near the bottom of its 52-week range and below its 200-day moving average, technical signals some traders view as a sign of persistent underlying weakness.

The company’s most recent earnings disappointed relative to expectations. According to Pluang, Tesla’s second-quarter 2026 earnings per share came in at 33 cents, well short of the 50 cents analysts had projected, even as revenue trends remained comparatively stable. That combination, a headline earnings miss alongside a still-elevated valuation, has left analysts sharply divided over the stock’s near-term trajectory.

On the bullish side of the ledger, the median analyst view remains cautiously optimistic. According to Investing.com, 23 analysts currently recommend buying Tesla shares while five recommend selling, translating to an overall Buy rating with an average 12-month price target of $395.34, implying roughly 16% upside from current levels. That estimate broadly aligns with figures from Public.com, which cited a $422.79 consensus target among 25 analysts as of mid-August, and MarketBeat, which listed a current target of $401.74.

Investors betting on upside point to several potential catalysts. According to Morningstar, Tesla is preparing to launch its Cybercab, a vehicle built specifically for autonomous driving with no steering wheel, into its robotaxi fleet in Austin, Texas, a milestone that TipRanks reported the company was targeting for this month. Tesla has also received regulatory approval for its self-driving software in Europe, according to reporting cited by Pluang, and has continued building out its humanoid robot program, Optimus, alongside broader ambitions in AI infrastructure. Morningstar analyst Seth Goldstein has described Tesla as having “the potential to disrupt multiple industries with its technology for EVs, AVs, batteries, and humanoid robots,” reflecting the multi-pronged bull case that extends well beyond the company’s traditional car business.

At the far bullish extreme, ARK Invest’s Cathie Wood has published a model estimating Tesla’s expected value per share at $4,600 by 2026, with bull and bear case scenarios of roughly $5,800 and $2,900, respectively. ARK’s model relies heavily on assumptions about the scale and speed at which Tesla can commercialize robotaxi and AI-related revenue streams, and the firm itself has described its terminal multiple assumptions as methodologically conservative relative to what it considers Tesla’s likely growth trajectory. Such long-range, model-driven price targets differ substantially in method and time horizon from more conventional 12-month Wall Street price targets, and should be weighed with that distinction in mind.

On the bearish side, critics argue that Tesla’s stock price continues to reflect expectations for its AI and autonomy ambitions rather than the fundamentals of its core vehicle business. GLJ Research analyst Gordon Johnson holds one of the lowest published targets on the Street, at $24.86 with a Sell rating, arguing that “Tesla is fundamentally a carmaker, not an AI company.” According to FXOpen’s summary of his position, Johnson points to falling deliveries, margin pressure and intensifying competition from Chinese automaker BYD as reasons he believes Tesla’s premium valuation is not justified by its underlying automotive business, regardless of progress on autonomy or robotics.

Valuation concerns extend beyond Johnson’s bearish outlook. According to Investing.com, Tesla trades at 364 times earnings, with one fair-value estimate cited by the outlet placing the stock’s intrinsic worth closer to $245.76, roughly 30% below its recent trading price near $351. Robinhood separately listed Tesla’s price-to-earnings ratio at 326.23 as of Aug. 21, a multiple that remains dramatically higher than traditional automakers and most other large-cap technology companies, reflecting the market’s continued pricing-in of future growth from businesses, including robotaxis and Optimus, that have not yet meaningfully contributed to Tesla’s reported revenue.

The wide dispersion in published price targets underscores just how divided professional forecasters remain. According to FXOpen, published 12-month analyst targets for Tesla range from roughly $25 to $600, while algorithmic and longer-range forecasting models spread even further by 2030, reflecting deep uncertainty over how quickly, if at all, Tesla’s autonomy and robotics initiatives can scale into meaningful profit centers. LiteFinance’s compiled analyst range for the end of 2026 similarly spans from $130.33 to $374.77, illustrating a gap wide enough that reasonable, well-informed analysts continue to reach starkly different conclusions using the same available information.

Given that spread, whether Tesla stock ends up higher or lower a year from now will likely hinge on a handful of concrete, verifiable developments rather than broader sentiment alone: whether the Cybercab robotaxi launch in Austin scales smoothly and expands to additional markets, whether Optimus moves from prototype to meaningful commercial deployment, whether Tesla’s core vehicle delivery and margin trends stabilize amid rising competition from BYD and other global EV makers, and whether the company’s next several quarterly earnings reports narrow or widen the gap between Wall Street’s growth expectations and Tesla’s actual reported results.

As with any individual stock, Tesla’s share price over the coming year will be shaped by a combination of company-specific execution, broader market conditions, and investor sentiment toward high-growth technology names generally, none of which can be predicted with certainty. This article is not investment advice, and anyone considering a position in Tesla stock, in either direction, should weigh the significant disagreement among professional analysts outlined here, alongside their own research and risk tolerance, before making any investment decision.

HDFC Mutual Fund and Axis Mutual Fund have resumed subscriptions in their respective gold ETFs, gold funds and gold ETF FoFs after Tata Mutual Fund and Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund announced resumption of subscription in their respective gold based funds.

According to a notice cum addendum, HDFC Mutual Fund announced that based on the temporary restrictions on lumpsum subscriptions in HDFC Gold ETF and HDFC Gold ETF Fund of Fund, it has now been decided to resume subscriptions in the HDFC Gold ETF Fund of Fund with effect from August 14.

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The scheme will resume accepting subscriptions through lumpsum purchases/ switch-ins without any restriction.

Similarly, Axis Mutual Fund announced that it has decided to withdraw the temporary restrictions on lump-sum subscriptions in the gold ETF and gold fund. In Axis Gold ETF, the subscription transactions by large investors for an amount exceeding Rs 25 crores directly with Axis Mutual Fund shall be accepted with effect from August 18, 2026.

In Axis Gold Fund, lumpsum subscriptions / switch – ins in the scheme, without any restrictions, shall be accepted with effect from August 18, 2026.
All other terms and conditions of the SID and KIM of the schemes of the fund shall remain unchanged. This Notice-cum-Addendum forms an integral part of the SID and KIM of the schemes of the fund, as amended from time to time.On Friday, Tata Mutual Fund announced that it has resumed Tata Gold ETF subscriptions for large investors investing Rs 25 crore and above. It has also removed investment limits on lump-sum purchases and switch-ins to the Tata Gold ETF FOF.

The changes are effective from August 21 and the above revision will be implemented prospectively and shall remain in force till further notice.

Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund decided to recommence the acceptance of fresh lumpsum subscriptions and switch-in application(s) in Aditya Birla Sun Life Gold Fund without any restriction, with effect from August 13, 2026.

The fund houses said that this change has been decided in view of the normalization of market conditions.

Earlier in June 2026, several mutual fund houses temporarily halted subscriptions to gold-linked schemes to manage large capital inflows. HDFC Mutual Fund imposed restrictions on June 4, followed by Axis Mutual Fund on June 5 and June 10, while Tata Mutual Fund introduced restrictions from June 8.

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The move came amid heightened demand for Gold ETFs after the government raised the import duty on physical gold as part of efforts to address the trade deficit. The surge in demand put pressure on fund houses to source physical gold to back new ETF units, even as the supply chain remained constrained.

To manage these institutional inflows, fund houses temporarily capped large direct investments and retail lump-sum purchases in their gold-linked schemes.

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Anthropic PBC, the maker of the Claude AI assistant, is preparing an initial public offering that the company hopes will match or exceed the record set by SpaceX earlier this year, according to Bloomberg, in what would mark one of the largest share sales in Wall Street history.

The company confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 to the Securities and Exchange Commission, and could file publicly as soon as the end of August, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg. Discussions surrounding the offering, including its ultimate size, remain ongoing and could still change.

SpaceX’s June debut set the current record for a first-time share sale, raising $75 billion in its initial offering, a figure that climbed to approximately $86.2 billion once the deal’s overallotment option was exercised. SpaceX priced its shares at $135 each, offering 555.6 million shares and valuing the company at roughly $1.78 trillion at the time of pricing. The stock opened around $150 on its first trading day, climbed as high as $225 intraday before settling back, and has more recently traded in the $142 to $146 range, giving the company a market capitalization of approximately $1.93 trillion.

At recent investor briefings led by Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao, Anthropic executives declined to commit to a specific valuation figure for the planned offering, according to Bloomberg’s reporting. The company is working with Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase on the IPO, with additional banks potentially being added to the underwriting roster.

Anthropic’s financial profile has shifted rapidly in recent months. According to Bloomberg, the company’s annualized revenue run rate reached $47 billion as of May 2026 and had climbed further, toward a pace exceeding $65 billion, according to a separate report cited by Yahoo Finance. Internal projections cited in earlier reporting pointed toward revenue reaching $100 billion to $120 billion by the end of the year. Despite that rapid revenue growth, Anthropic posted a net loss of almost $42 billion in 2025, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg, a roughly fivefold increase from a loss of about $8.3 billion the year before, though the company reported positive adjusted operating income for the second quarter of this year.

Anthropic’s most recent private funding round, completed in May 2026, valued the company at approximately $965 billion, according to CryptoBriefing. To surpass SpaceX’s IPO valuation, Anthropic’s public offering would need to value the company at more than $2 trillion, roughly double that May figure, reflecting the scale of investor appetite the company and its bankers appear to be betting on as they prepare the offering.

The company is separately finalizing a revolving credit facility expected to come in above its roughly $10 billion target, according to Benzinga, expanding on financing efforts the company pursued earlier in July. Anthropic has also reportedly explored issuing super-voting shares ahead of the offering, a structure that would give Chief Executive Dario Amodei and other co-founders greater control over the company even as their overall ownership stakes remain comparatively small, according to reporting from The Information cited by Bloomberg.

Anthropic appears to be racing to reach the public markets ahead of rival OpenAI, according to SiliconANGLE’s reporting. Both companies have filed confidentially with the SEC, but OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman is reportedly considering delaying that company’s own listing until 2027, due in part to his stated goal of reaching a $1 trillion valuation that is not yet considered feasible under current market conditions. According to Yahoo Finance’s private markets data cited in earlier coverage, Anthropic was valued at roughly $1 trillion, compared with $894 billion for OpenAI, underscoring how closely matched the two companies’ private valuations have become even as they pursue different public-market timelines.

Prediction markets have taken notice of the increasingly competitive race between Anthropic and SpaceX for the title of the year’s largest IPO. According to CryptoBriefing, Polymarket currently prices SpaceX as the favorite to retain that distinction, with roughly 55% odds, while Anthropic sits close behind at 44% to 45%. That gap has narrowed dramatically in recent months; as recently as a few months ago, SpaceX commanded roughly 94% odds of holding the record, according to the same report. Anthropic’s odds are also subject to a hard deadline: if the company’s IPO slips past Dec. 31, 2026, prediction markets would resolve automatically in SpaceX’s favor regardless of the eventual size of Anthropic’s offering.

If Anthropic’s IPO does surpass SpaceX’s record, the milestone would push 2026 to the highest annual volume of U.S. IPO activity on record. According to Quartz, companies that debuted on public markets had already raised $160.6 billion as of Aug. 19, putting the year within striking distance of the previous record of $195.2 billion, set in 2021.

Anthropic and SpaceX also share a significant commercial relationship independent of their competing IPO ambitions. According to SiliconANGLE, Anthropic recently agreed to a three-year deal to purchase computing resources from SpaceX potentially worth tens of billions of dollars, reflecting the enormous computing costs both companies face as they continue training and operating large-scale AI models.

As of this report, neither Anthropic nor SpaceX has issued a formal public comment addressing the specific comparisons between their respective offerings, and the size, timing and structure of Anthropic’s planned IPO remain subject to change as the company finalizes its preparations for a public filing expected before the end of the month. Given how quickly the details surrounding Anthropic’s offering have evolved in recent weeks, investors and market observers are likely to continue closely watching for the company’s formal S-1 filing for confirmation of the specific terms under consideration.