New Delhi: India isn’t looking for a short burst of accelerated economic growth but a sustained expansion rate of over 7% for at least the next two decades, which requires a whole “reimagining” of its financial sector, economic affairs secretary Ajay Seth said on Tuesday. Delivering the valedictory speech at a Confederation of Indian Industry … Read more
Asian equities and US futures were broadly higher Thursday on firming signs the Federal Reserve will soon cut interest rates. Japanese stocks fell to reflect a stronger yen. Equities in Australia and South Korea rose alongside Hong Kong share futures. Contracts for the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 both climbed to compound Wednesday’s advances … Read more
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has sought to prevent potentially inflation-stoking banking system liquidity enhancement through deft currency and bond market interventions, with foreign inflows into local sovereign debt quickening after the country’s inclusion in a globally tracked JP Morgan index. With rates on annualised dollar-rupee forward premia jumping after index inclusion occurred on … Read more
Mumbai: The Shapoorji Pallonji Group (SP Group) is offering ₹400 crore more to the bondholders of group company Goswami Infratech, in exchange for their consent to extend the deadline to meet certain covenants on ₹14,300 crore of borrowings. The company, which has to pay ₹1,400 crore in interest this month, has sought a four-month window … Read more
For Indian companies, the bond market was the preferred route for fundraising in FY24 despite equities witnessing a record-breaking run. Fund mobilisation through privately placed corporate bonds touched a record high of Rs 9.77 lakh crore in FY24 — a 15% increase over the previous year’s record of Rs 8.52 lakh crore. Bankers said companies … Read more
Foreign inflows into India’s sovereign bond market are closing in on the $10 billion mark ahead of the country’s inclusion in the JPMorgan Chase & Co’s emerging markets debt index. Investments into index-eligible Fully Accessible Route bonds have risen by 812.18 billion rupees ($9.8 billion) since the announcement in September, data from the Clearing Corp. … Read more
Mumbai: IRB Infrastructure, backed by Singapore’s GIC, is exploring the overseas bond market to raise $300 million, mainly to refinance the earlier bonds. The company is in talks with Barclays, Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan to give the fundraising mandate. Proceeds will be used to refinance the earlier bond raised in 2021. Back then, IRB … Read more
Mumbai: India’s government bond market has witnessed a first, with the outstanding amount on a single sovereign security breaching the ₹2-lakh-crore mark, demonstrating the finance ministry’s tolerance for a much higher borrowing limit through one bond series than what applied to the earlier threshold. After its last auction in the primary market on January 19, … Read more
MUMBAI – India’s 10-year government bond yield declined in early trade on Monday, falling below the critical 7.15% mark to a near 4-month low, as prospects of lower inflationary pressures powered bullish bets. The 10-year benchmark bond yield was at 7.1350% as of 10:00 a.m. IST, following its previous close of 7.1791%. The yield eased … Read more
New York: Right around the start of November, two words suddenly disappeared from the chatter in the bond market: debt supply. As bond prices surged across the developed world day after day, sending yields tumbling and handing investors some much-needed profits, the angst about soaring budget deficits melted away. But for how long? Over the … Read more
