All eyes are on Odisha and Madhya Pradesh, who combined contributed over 13% to the Central Pool last year, to make up for the deficit in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, as overall rice procurement has increased by 11% so far this season. As the procurement in the State is projected to be on par with…
High gold prices, a lack of participant interest, and inadequate liquidity, according to traders, have made trading on Indian International Bullion Exchange (IIBX), the country’s first international bullion platform, lackluster. Beginning in July, IIBX is operating out of the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) building in Gandhinagar’s Gujarat International Finance Technology City (GIFT City). Given…
The cotton crop in India for 2022–2023 is expected to be 4.25 lakh bales (each weighing 170 kg) lower than the previous year, when 307.05 lakh bales were produced, due to forecast declines in production in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Haryana. The CAI predicted a decrease in cotton production for November in Punjab (0.75 lakh…
As prices fluctuate during the current harvest, struggling coffee growers believe that now is the ideal time for the Center to strengthen the only multi-state co-operative Coffee Marketing Co-operative Ltd (COMARK) by providing financial support to the growers’ organization to engage in market intervention activities. Farm gate coffee prices have decreased by approximately a fifth…
Due to a declining dollar and expectations of increased demand in China as a result of the government’s projected economic stimulus, copper prices increased on Monday. The central bank is anticipated to loosen monetary policy soon after the Chinese government announced that it would intensify efforts to stabilize the country’s economy. However, for the time…
When compared to the same period in the previous financial year, the total export of oil meals grew by 50% to 23.92 lakh tonnes (lt) between April and November 202223 from 15.96 lt. The export of oil meals increased by 150 percent from 1.63 lt in November 2021 to 4.07 lt in November 2022, according…
The biggest annual growth rate for any nation will be seen in India’s need for coal in 2022, driven by increased thermal power output to meet higher-than-average summer demand and escalating economic activity. The second-largest consumer of coal in the world increased its consumption by 14% year over year (yoy) to 1,033 million tonnes (mt)…
As optimism from China’s reopening and a resurgence in oil demand overshadowed worries of a global recession, oil prices recovered ground on Monday after dropping more than $2 per barrel in the previous session. While U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was at $74.89 a barrel, up 60 cents or 0.8%, Brent crude futures increased 72…
On Monday, gold prices barely changed as markets processed a barrage of hawkish central bank signals and rising recession concerns, but copper prices recovered some of their recent losses thanks to expectations of a Chinese economic recovery. The Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank both warned that interest rates are likely to rise higher,…
According to information available on NSE, foreign institutional investors (FII) sold shares worth a net of Rs 1975.44 crore on Friday, December 16, 2022, while domestic institutional investors (DII) bought shares worth a net of Rs 1542.5 crore. FII sold shares worth a net of Rs 7,490.05 crore during the month of December up till…
