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Copper on MCX settled down -0.14% at 312.05 with China's economic growth meeting expectations in the third quarter but an impending slowdown in real estate growth painting a mixed outlook for metal

Crudeoil on MCX settled up 2.78% at 3472 after the U. S. Energy Information Administration reported an unexpectedly large U. S. oil inventory drawdown last week.

Silver prices remained supported as a batch of mixed data on the U. S. housing market kept up pressure on the dollar. U. S.

Gold on MCX settled up 0.39% at 29901 as the dollar weakened amid uncertainty around the timing of a U. S. interest rate increase. U. S.

New Delhi [India], Oct. 20 : The second ODI between India and New Zealand will today be played at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium here. With host team up 1-0 in the five-match ODI series, skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his men would like to reassert themselves in order to further consolidate their lead.

The big news from Indian side is the unavailability of the experienced Suresh Raina, who last played an ODI a year back. One of India's vital cog in limited-overs cricket, Raina lost form after the ICC World Cup 2015 and that saw him lose his place in the side after the South Africa series.

Raina is yet to recover from the bout of viral fever that kept him away from the first ODI which India won comfortably by six wickets.

Washington D.C. [USA], Oct. 20 : There is indeed some magic in numbers!

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has carried out a study that now mathematically explains how tumours induce the growth of blood vessels.

The study maintains that the tips of the blood vessels expand like a soliton, a solitary wave similar to a tsunami.

"If we know how blood vessels move towards a tumor and know they take the form of a soliton, we can slow down their growth or prevent them from reaching and feeding the tumor by controlling the movement of this wave," said researcher Luis L. Bonilla.