On Tuesday, the dollar struggled to find buyers as the market mood improved
allowing the currency to remain reasonably resilient against its peers. Eurostat will publish the euro area’s first-quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) numbers. Later in the day, a 10-year US Treasury note auction will take place, and the US Census Bureau will release statistics on Wholesale Inventories. The trade action might continue muted ahead of the […]
Ahead of the RBI policy announcement, India’s 10-year bond rate reaches 7.5 percent, the highest level since 2019
In early trade on Monday, India’s benchmark 10-year bond yield hit its highest level since March 2019 as investors braced for a 50-basis-point rate hike later this week while rising global crude oil prices weighed on the mood. The 10-year bond yield in India was trading at 7.4965 percent, up 4 basis points from the […]
Rupee falls to a new intraday low, but recovers when RBI intervenes
The rupee struck a new intra-day low on Thursday, breaching the 77.5/$ barrier, as the US dollar strengthened, before the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) intervened to aid minimise its losses.The rupee finished the day at 77.43 per dollar, down 18 paise or 0.24 percent from its previous close of 77.24 per dollar. “As the […]
To protect the rupee, the RBI may be cautious about spending FX reserves
When the Federal Reserve tightens, the Reserve Bank of India tries to defend its currency once more. Analysts expect it to launch a more limited defense this time, geared at fighting off the worst of speculative attacks rather than drawing a line in the sand when global capital flows are shifting and the Fed is […]
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) may go for a hike of up to 0.25 per cent in the reverse repo rate at which the RBI absorbs excess liquidity and leave the repo rate at which it lends, to narrow the policy rate corridor, a British brokerage said on Thursday. “Growth concerns amid spread of the […]
RBI rejects Religare Finvest’s proposal to rename itself
The Reserve Bank of India rejected Religare Finvest Ltd’s proposal to rename itself Care Financial Services and declined to new management status to the existing management – a move that would derail debt restructuring of the finance company, said people aware of the matter. As per the RBI’s regulations, lenders cannot restructure loans of borrowers […]
