Mumbai: India’s benchmark indices shed over 1% on Tuesday, mirroring the weakness in other Asian markets, as investors awaited the US Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decision on Wednesday. Analysts said the near-term market outlook remains negative with investors cutting their shareholdings for tax purposes ahead of the end of the financial year on March 31. … Read more
The window for interest rate cuts may be closing. On the eve of the Federal Reserve’s two-day policy meeting, Wall Street forecaster Jim Bianco believes the central bank will likely stay on hold until next year. “I’m in the camp that the Fed does not change policy in the summer of an election year,” the … Read more
The country’s car industry has for the second time revised upwards its growth projections for this fiscal to more than 8%, nearly twice the rate projected at the start of the year. Passenger vehicle sales in the local market are expected to grow by 8.1-8.2% to 4.23 million units in FY24, buoyed by better-than-expected economic … Read more
Investor sentiment toward intermediate-term Treasury bonds may be changing. Schwab Asset Management’s David Botset is seeing more flows into bonds with maturity rates typically between three and five years â and sometimes out to 10 years. “People are starting to realize that we’re kind of at the peak of interest rate increases,” the firm’s head … Read more
KOLKATA: Central bankers may have to junk their historical economic models to handle crises in the future after they were found deficient during the pandemic, with the global economy undergoing a paradigm shift spawned by rapidly altering labour dynamics and advancements in artificial intelligence, said the governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Emerging … Read more
Evercore ISI’s Julian Emanuel thinks Nvidia’s monster rally is fueling a fear of missing out in the market. He finds clients, including many who traded through the dot-com boom and subsequent collapse, are more worried about being underinvested than overexposed right now. “That’s the first time that’s happened since 2021 for us,” the firm’s senior … Read more
Visitors near Yuyuan Bazaar in Shanghai, China, on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. Raul Ariano | Bloomberg | Getty Images Even as China’s economy is facing difficulties, treating it as un-investable like some analysts have suggested would not be the right call, John Bilton, head of global multi-asset strategy at JPMorgan Asset Management, told CNBC’s “Squawk … Read more
The Reserve Bank of India aims for market rates to be aligned with the repo rate, but over the past four years, amidst extraordinary economic events, market rates have largely been disconnected from the policy rate, as liquidity conditions have been either tailored to rev up growth or battle inflation. In the 45 months from … Read more
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will inject or absorb funds in the banking system in a nimble manner, depending on deficit or surplus conditions, top central bank officials said, adding that when interest rates are the principal tool of monetary policy, liquidity is used to achieve a certain rate. “As (RBI) governor has … Read more
Nifty ended with weekly gains of 2.3% with leadership taken by IT stocks. In terms of gains, PSU Banks trumped all other sectors. When markets resume trading on Monday, a host of important domestic and global events lined-up during the holiday-truncated week are likely to impact them. “Benchmark indices snapped a two week losing streak … Read more
