Future of vehicles is electric, India’s import duty sops a positive, say Audi top execs

Future of vehicles is electric, India’s import duty sops a positive, say Audi top execs

India’s decision to temporarily lower import duty on electric vehicles priced upwards of $35,000 to 15% for carmakers investing at least $500 million on domestic manufacturing “might help accelerate localisation of premium electric cars” and drive demand, a top Audi executive said. The policy “shows that the government seems to be very committed to sustainability, … Read more

Jefferies: Amber, Ambuja Cement, Axis Bank and Bharti Airtel among Jefferies’ top picks

Jefferies: Amber, Ambuja Cement, Axis Bank and Bharti Airtel among Jefferies’ top picks

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Time to be worried about overvaluations in equities, other assets: Jim Rogers

Time to be worried about overvaluations in equities, other assets: Jim Rogers

Investors should be worried amid simultaneous all-time highs in various asset classes whether equity, bullion or bitcoins, ace investor and author Jim Rogers said at an event. He was responding to a question on overvaluation in asset classes and looming fears of a crash. “That’s fabulous for anybody who is invested in the markets. But … Read more

RBI: Big dollars flowing into government debt, RBI’s likely to raise foreign cap

RBI: Big dollars flowing into government debt, RBI’s likely to raise foreign cap

Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may have to take a fresh look at its long-standing caps for foreign ownership of government debt as lumpy inflows expected over the next couple of years due to global bond index inclusion alter a critical landscape for the Centre’s debt manager. In March 2020, the RBI introduced … Read more

yield: Benchmark 10-year yield softens to 9-month low

yield: Benchmark 10-year yield softens to 9-month low

Mumbai: The yield on India’s 10-year benchmark government paper slid to its lowest level in nine months, helping bring down the cost of borrowing across the economy, as a fall in US bond yields and lower than anticipated supply of local debt created appetite for sovereign debt. The 10-year benchmark bond yield closed at 7.02%, … Read more

This Tiny Website Is Google’s First Line of Defense in the Patent Wars

This Tiny Website Is Google’s First Line of Defense in the Patent Wars

A trio of Google engineers recently came up with a futuristic way to help anyone who stumbles through presentations on video calls. They propose that when algorithms detect a speaker’s pulse racing or “umms” lengthening, a generative AI bot that mimics their voice could simply take over. That cutting-edge idea wasn’t revealed at a big … Read more

G-secs: Bloomberg panel favours India G-secs in EM index

G-secs: Bloomberg panel favours India G-secs in EM index

Mumbai: An advisory committee at Bloomberg Index Services Ltd has recommended inclusion of Indian government bonds in the Bloomberg Emerging Market Local Currency Index and a formal announcement of this is likely in the coming days, people aware of the development said. “Following the advisory committee’s favourable recommendation, the process now goes to the relevant … Read more

Tailwinds get stronger due to fiscal discipline; 5 construction & contracting companies having upside potential of up to 30%

Tailwinds get stronger due to fiscal discipline; 5 construction & contracting companies having upside potential of up to 30%

Synopsis While it was an interim budget, on one count it gave more indications even than a full budget. That count is the path which interest rates may follow. If one goes by the reaction of the debt market and the benchmark G-sec yield, the probability of interest rates coming down has increased very sharply. … Read more

Nifty: Nifty@50K thesis still holds with all right things in place: Raamdao Agrawal

Nifty: Nifty@50K thesis still holds with all right things in place: Raamdao Agrawal

Interim budget does in no way disturb my thesis – Nifty of 50,000 by 2030. This is more than double the current Nifty level of 22,000. However, over seven years, the CAGR (compound annual growth rate) works out to only 12%. Budgets, such as this one, gently nudge things towards my Nifty target. How? Considering … Read more

bond market: Govt borrowings via a single bond top Rs 2-lakh crore

bond market: Govt borrowings via a single bond top Rs 2-lakh crore

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