The week ending December 1 was marked by speeches of two important Federal Reserve officials – Waller, the Federal Reserve Governor and Powell, the Federal Reserve’s Chair. Financial markets construed the much awaited Powell‘s speech Friday as decisively dovish as he did not seem to push hard against the markets’ expectations of hefty rate cuts … Read more
As stock markets hover near all-time highs, do you still have opportunities to invest and create wealth, or is over-valuation setting in, and it is time to be cautious? Tune in to watch Shailendra Bhatnagar Chief Analyst and Editor, Markets, Business Today and Sakshi Batra, Sr. Associate Editor, Business Today TV speak with top … Read more
For the past couple of years, the focus of markets and financial stakeholders on hitting the inflation target of 4% was diluted. The focus was to support growth and be okay with turning a blind eye to inflation breaching the upper limit. Furthermore, the market seemed a little too much interested in the Fed rates … Read more
“We remain bullish on Indian markets and expect markets to scale new highs in 2023. We have a 12-month Nifty target of 21,035,” says Amnish Aggarwal – Head of Research, Prabhudas Lilladher Pvt Ltd. In an interview with ETMarkets, Aggarwal who has an experience of around 20 years in the financial markets, said: “We expect … Read more
New Delhi: With an aim to enhance the ease of accessibility and usability of data disseminated in public by various data sources in securities market, Sebi has asked market intermediaries to make available such data to users, ‘free of charge’ both for ‘viewing’ and for download. Financial markets are traditionally data-rich and data-driven and with … Read more
Indian equities plummeted 2.6%, posting the biggest single-day drop in three months, amid a slide in stock markets as risk-off sentiment intensified across global financial markets on Monday. Anxiety that the US Federal Reserve is on course to drain liquidity that had propped up stocks to record levels at a faster pace prompted investors to … Read more
By Liz Capo McCormick These days, all the talk in financial markets is about when the Federal Reserve will start paring its debt purchases. What’s more important, for everything from stocks to bonds to currencies, is when they will end. There have been few major moves ahead of the Kansas Fed’s virtual Jackson Hole symposium, … Read more
By Bill Dudley After the U.S. financial system came to the brink of collapse in 2008, Congress and regulators spent years on renovations designed to prevent that from ever happening again. More than six months into a global pandemic that has delivered another monumental shock, it’s worth asking: Were the reforms successful and sufficient? The … Read more
Will financial markets lead the revival of the real economy from the Covid-19 crisis? A top money manager on Dalal Street spoke of such a possibility this past week, pointing out how the elevated state of the equity market has helped equity and debt raising for Indian corporates wrestling with the disruption caused by the … Read more
LONDON/NEW YORK: Financial markets‘ fear gauges are not flashing red at a time of serious global turmoil, stirring investor doubts over whether the indexes are mispricing current and future turbulence. Volatility gauges embedded in option markets are used by traders and investors to predict — or guess — market direction. They can also be useful … Read more