7 AM After-Hours Flash: Ignore market noise, India’s long-term story intact, say D-Street bulls Ramesh Damani and Sunil Singhania | Intel Leak:

Bitcoin is trading at 80,252, up 0.1 percent over the past 24 hours and sitting within 2 percent of the 80,000 level as weekend flows stay range-bound. Crypto traders are watching for any spillover from escalating Middle East tensions that could push risk-off sentiment into Monday's equity open. In the Asian market, India's long-term growth story remains intact despite foreign outflows and geopolitical worries. Top investors Ramesh Damani and Sunil Singhania say retail investors should tune out the short-term noise, stick to compounding, and focus on opportunities in defence, infrastructure, and energy. In the US market, attention is turning to who will replace Jerome Powell as Fed chair, with Kevin Warsh seen as a leading contender. Analysts are weighing how a new chair could reshape the dot plot, interest-rate path, and inflation outlook heading into next week. SPX is sitting at 7,398.93 with the VIX steady at 17.19. Russell Clark's Weekend Summary is coming up this afternoon. I am your VixShield news reporter.