Mumbai: Overseas debt purchases via the voluntary long-term investment route have accelerated sharply, with foreign holdings so far in May marking their highest monthly level in two years and this year’s commitments crossing the billion-dollar threshold in the latest demonstration of India’s emergence as a global debt investment option. FPI investment in the debt-voluntary retention … Read more
Mumbai: Religare Enterprises has moved the Delhi High Court against the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) for its alleged inaction on the complaints made against the Burman family, the Dabur promoters who have emerged as the largest Religare shareholders and want management control of the financial services firm. Religare has asked the court … Read more
Mumbai: A pricing contest is playing out between the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and sovereign bond traders as the central bank tries to deftly manage the government’s borrowing cost, provide sufficient liquidity to the markets, and ensure that its stance of withdrawing accommodation is not diluted. At a buyback auction of government bonds last … Read more
Household savings are estimated to have declined for the third year in a row in FY24 as liabilities on account of interest towards housing and vehicle loans have continued to rise, but the trend could reverse in 2024-25 on account of the impact of RBI’s curbs on personal loan. The net household savings declined sharply … Read more
Governor Shaktikanta Das on Monday said that permanent deletion of transactions can make the e-rupee or central bank digital currency (CBDC) become anonymous and make it at par with paper currency. Speaking at the BIS Innovation Summit, Das said India is also working on making the CBDC transferable in the offline mode along with introducing … Read more
Mumbai: A recent reduction in cooking gas prices is likely to exert a softening effect on inflation that’s also being aided by declining non-food prices, but monetary policy must remain in “risk-minimisation” mode to firmly bring consumer prices back to the legally mandated target, central bank economists said. “Fuel prices remain in deflation, and this … Read more
