NEW DELHI: Despite Friday’s profit booking, headline index Nifty managed to close on a positive note for the fifth week in a row by registering a weekly gain of 0.34 per cent. As the peak of the earnings season is now over, the attention now shifts to macro events, FII flows and the movement in … Read more
The Centre and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have been taking steps to attract capital inflows so the rupee’s depreciation against the dollar is smooth and gradual, government officials said. They pointed out that the dollar has strengthened against other currencies too, as global investors have become cautious, and the weakening of the rupee … Read more
NEW DELHI – The rupee slumped to an all-time low against the US dollar on Monday as a higher-than-expected inflation reading in the world’s largest economy stoked speculation of aggressive rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, leading to global strength in the greenback. The partially convertible rupee weakened past the 78/$1 mark for the first … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Reserve Bank of India, it seems, just cannot catch a break. Just when the consumer price index-based inflation was showing signs of easing, one of India’s traditional bugbears has resurfaced: a spike in crude oil price. Global oil prices surged to a multi-year high on Monday after the Organization of the Petroleum … Read more