The Indian rupee slipped to its weakest closing level on Monday, pressured by a decline in its Asian peers while likely intervention by the Reserve Bank of India ensured the currency did not weaken more. The rupee closed at 83.9725 against the U.S. dollar, after closing at 83.9550 in the previous session. The currency hovered … Read more
U.S. equity funds saw outflows for the first time four weeks in the seven days ended May 29, hit by rising bond yields and uncertainty over the timing and extent of Federal Reserve interest rate cuts. According to LSEG Lipper data, net outflows from U.S. equity funds totalled $7.6 billion. This came as the yield … 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
Dinesh Kumar Khara, Chairman, SBI, says “our endeavour is to ensure that we maintain this level and we expect that when it comes to our deposit rates, we appear to have plateaued already. And henceforth we should be in a position to improve our yield on advances also and that is the reason why I … Read more
Edelweiss Financial Services said its Rs 200 crore public issue of debentures opened on Monday. The non-convertible debentures (NCDs) will have an effective annual yield of 9 per cent to 10.46 per cent. The issue will close on April 23. The NCDs carry fixed coupons and have a tenure of 24 months, 36 months, 60 … Read more
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
