The recovery in local markets helped the rupee trim its initial losses and end the day unchanged at 82.54 (provisional) vs the US dollar. The local currency started the day at 82.59 versus the dollar on the interbank foreign exchange market and fluctuated during the day between a low of 82.66 and a high of…
Private weather forecaster Skymet has stated that the lack of rain is diminishing the atmospheric moisture levels and causing the heat stress to increase, which is harmful to winter-grown cereal. This is happening three weeks before grain filling begins in the wheat in much of northern India. However, early sowing of the wheat crop in…
Despite a decline over the Chinese Lunar New Year holidays, copper prices are predicted to continue to rise this year. Political upheaval around the world could lead to additional gains for the red metal, but there are also huge hazards, according to specialists. Chinese copper cathode production in January was 41,700 tonnes less than the…
On Thursday, the Indian rupee depreciated by 10 paise to open at 82.59 against the dollar, down from the previous close of 82.49. Due to the strengthening dollar and growing price of crude oil, the local currency is anticipated to decline today. Additionally, a consistent FII exodus from domestic equity markets could put pressure on…
In the second half of the year, when China’s economy emerges from anti-virus lockdowns, crude oil prices could reach $100 per barrel, according to Iran’s liaison to OPEC. Afshin Javan, Iran’s national representative to the OPEC producer group, stated on the fringes of the India Energy Week conference in Bengaluru that “we have some market…
The RBI stated in its Statement on Developmental and Regulatory Policies that it is putting up a pilot project on QR code-based coin vending machines (QCVM) in partnership with a few major banks to increase coin distribution to the general population. The QCVM is a cashless coin dispenser that eliminates the requirement for physical banknote…
On Monday, the rupee opened about 60 paise down at 82.41 per dollar as the dollar’s value increased versus a basket of six peers and against international crude oil benchmarks. At the interbank foreign exchange, the local unit started out weakly versus the dollar at 82.35 before dropping to 82.50 and losing 42 paise from…
The greatest outflow of foreign capital from Indian stocks in the recent seven months totaled 28,852 crore in January, mostly as a result of the appeal of the Chinese markets. Data with the depositories showed that there had been net investments of 11,119 crore in December and 36,238 crore in November prior to this. de…
The majority of financial industry professionals anticipate the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to opt for a moderate repo rate increase of 25 basis points during its policy review meeting this week. Monday marks the beginning of the MPC’s three-day deliberations, and February 8 marks the announcement of the result. In his most recent bimonthly monetary…
By introducing the concept of “blue” and “yellow” bonds as new forms of sustainable finance, markets regulator SEBI enhanced the environment for green bonds on Friday. Water is related to blue bonding. Yellow bonds are related to solar energy, whereas management and marine sector bonds are about. which are green debt securities’ subcategories. According to…
