Indian stock markets rallied on Thursday, with the Sensex surging over 905 points and the Nifty gaining 1.05 per cent, as the US Federal Reserve's decision to keep interest rates unchanged, a marginal easing in crude oil prices, and renewed institutional buying improved investor sentiment.

Microsoft reported a 19 per cent year-on-year increase in revenue to USD 92.3 billion in the July-September quarter, supported by strong growth in its cloud business, as the technology major began fiscal year 2027 with higher income and earnings.

Jio Platforms listed at Rs 1,358 per share, a 21.35 per cent premium over its issue price of Rs 1,119. The offering drew more than Rs 750 billion in demand. Its platforms now serve more than 540 million users.

Anthropic, the firm that developed the AI model Claude, on Monday submitted a request for a US initial public offering. The submission places one of the largest names in Silicon Valley before Wall Street investors.

EBITDA reached INR 84.6 billion, up about 500% year on year. The order book stood at INR 3.5 trillion.

Mukesh Ambani's USD 3.2 billion Jio Platforms IPO has attracted bids of nearly USD 25 billion from institutional investors such as GIC, BlackRock and Fidelity, amounting to nearly 30 times the portion set aside for anchor investors, according to sources familiar with the situation.

India's domestic gold prices rose 12% in August to ₹1,58,854 per 10 grams, tracking a 13% jump in the global benchmark to US$4,386 an ounce. Total gold ETF assets in the country climbed to about ₹1.91 lakh crore, backed by 121.3 tonnes of the metal, with year-to-date net inflows of US$4.22 billion. Average daily turnover in MCX gold futures rose 38% month on month to roughly ₹29,500 crore. Physical gold imports fell to US$2.3 billion in August, down 58% from a year earlier.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) reported a 68.7 per cent year-on-year increase in net profit to USD 23.86 billion (NT$763.06 billion) in the third quarter of 2026, while revenue rose 50.9 per cent to USD 46.72 billion (NT$1,494.24 billion).

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company’s IPO plans are likely to be delayed until after 2026. He also backed a proposal from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to slow frontier AI development while expanding safety evaluations and international coordination. Altman said the industry still has significant work to do to address safety concerns and fears of losing control of advanced AI systems.