Indian IT services provider Coforge Ltd’s fourth-quarter revenue and its revenue growth forecast for fiscal year 2024 were roughly in line with analysts estimates, in contrast to weaker-than-expected outlooks from its bigger peers. Coforge’s shares were up 1.4% in midday trading on Thursday, compared with a 0.8% rise in the Nifty IT index, while the … Read more
Most global central banks may be either close to a peak or already done with interest-rate hiking, auguring a hiatus before possible monetary loosening comes into view. With the first signs of dents in economic growth now visible, and fallout from financial-market tensions lingering, any pause by the Federal Reserve after at least one more … Read more
Investors searching for safer areas in the U.S. stock market are finding that traditional shelters that held up in last year’s selloff, such as consumer staples, utilities and healthcare, may be more problematic this time. After rebounding sharply in January, the benchmark S&P 500 is wobbling again as investors worry the Federal Reserve will take … Read more
Asian markets breathed a sigh of relief on Friday as the incoming head of Japan’s central bank soothed fears of an early end to super-easy monetary policy, nudging bond yields lower globally. Kazuo Ueda, who will take over as governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) in April, began three hours of speaking to parliament … Read more
Unlike most of its peers, Indian equities bid goodbye to 2022 on a good note as optimism over domestic growth prospects overshadowed the macroeconomic headwinds that developed and other major developing economies are currently experiencing. Indian equities were the second best performers in 2022, with the first one being Brazil. Domestic benchmarks Nifty 50 and … Read more
The dollar was firm on Tuesday leading in to the release of U.S. inflation data and the final Federal Reserve meeting of the year, with investors waiting to update interest rate outlooks. A month ago, a small surprise to the downside unleashed a wave of bond-buying and dollar selling on the expectation that inflation had … Read more
The dollar languished on Friday after U.S. inflation data came in cooler than expected, raising market hopes that inflation may have peaked and that the Federal Reserve will begin scaling back its hefty interest rate increases. Figures showed that the consumer price index rose 7.7% year-on-year in October, the smallest gain since January and below … Read more
Mumbai: The benchmark bond yield spiked Monday to nearly a three-and-a-half year high, just ahead of the Reserve ‘s bi-monthly policy announcement. Traders are apprehensive of the quantum of rate hike the Monetary Policy Committee is set to deliver on Wednesday. The benchmark bond yielded 7.50%, the highest level since January 11, 2019, show Bloomberg … Read more