While benchmark indices are taking baby steps towards lifetime highs, the broader market and even penny stocks remained on the fast lane on Dalal Street. A total of 636 penny stocks gave index-beating returns in the week gone by. The S&P BSE Sensex was down 0.4% week-on-week. As many as 60 penny stocks have given … Read more
The US Federal Reserve is widely expected to raise its benchmark lending rate for a tenth — and possibly final — time on Wednesday, as it continues its fight against high inflation. The US central bank is likely to take this decision despite growing signs that the American economy is slowing down, with many economists … Read more
The U.S. economy maintained its resilience from October through December despite rising interest rates, growing at a 2.6% annual pace, the government said Thursday in a slight downgrade from its previous estimate. But consumer spending, which drives most of the economy’s growth, was revised sharply down. The government had previously estimated that the economy expanded … Read more
US banks are being forced to do something they haven’t done for 15 years: fight for deposits. After years of earning next to nothing, depositors are discovering a trove of higher-yielding options like Treasury bills and money market funds as the Federal Reserve ratchets up benchmark interest rates. The shift has been so pronounced that … Read more
Gold closed with strong gains of 2.50% on the week as the markets took solace in their notion that the US Federal Reserve may pause rate hikes in next few months and the next hike would be 25 bps, not 50 bps. The US 10-year yields were up 0.30% on the week, while the US … Read more
Foreign investors offloaded nearly Rs 5,900 crore from the Indian equity markets in the first week of January on growing concerns over the re-emergence of Covid in some parts of the world and recession worries in the US. Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) have been adopting a cautious stance toward Indian equity markets for the past … 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
Douglas W Diamond, winner of this year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, says it is difficult to predict exchange rates but the rupee should stabilise once the US “reduces the speed of its rate increases”. In an email interview to PTI, the American economist also said that when the US raises exchange rates unexpectedly, … Read more
Silver prices recouped from a multi-year low on demand optimism. Global consumption of the precious white metal is expected to reach a record total this year, driven by post-pandemic industrial and physical investment demand. Silver was reeling under the bearish grip for the past several weeks. It was the worst-performing precious metal in 2022. A … Read more
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India has extended its US bond buying spree to the fourth consecutive month, amid surging US treasury yields. India’s investment in US treasury securities surged by a net $9.2 billion in August to $221.2 billion, the highest in nearly two years, show latest data compiled by ETIG. A tiny part … Read more