India needs foreign exchange buffer reserves to insulate itself from exchange rate volatility as we have "no friends" for swap lines and Japan was the only country that helped during the taper tantrum in 2013, former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan said on Tuesday. Participating in a virtual event organised by economic think tank NCAER, Rajan said during the taper tantrum in 2013, India asked for swap lines, and only country who helped was Japan. "We need this (foreign exchange) reserve buffer to insulate ourselves because we have no friends.
Broader markets are outperforming the benchmark indices- BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices are up 0.8%-1%.
This is the biggest one-day fall in the rupee since August 3, 2016
As and when the GST comes in, Budget projections will have to be unbundled and revised. In fact, the pragmatic decision would be to present another Budget! This makes the passage of the Finance Bill with its multiple unrelated amendments seem even more dubious, says Devangshu Datta.
A leave vote means the future of Britain's financial services industry is now hanging in the balance.
In the broader markets, the BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices were up 0.5% each
The proposals appeared so far apart that success seemed higly unlikely
While Manmohan Singh had to deal with high oil prices, inflation and trade deficit, Narendra Modi is lucky as major threats have receded, says T N Ninan.
Premium valuations and lack of big triggers will weigh on Indian equity markets in the near term, believes Mahesh Nandurkar, India Strategist, CLSA.
If his attempt to have his appeal heard in the Supreme Court fails, in principle, Modi can apply to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to try and block his extradition on the basis that he will not receive a fair trial and that he will be detained in conditions that breach Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, to which the UK is a signatory.
A bleak demand outlook for steel in the domestic as well as global market is also another reason Tata Steel may be looking to have additional liquidity as margins are expected to take a hit in the coming quarters.
'We are not getting any clear guidance on what to do. Initially, we were asked to move to the bunker...when we packed our bags and reached there, our university head asked to go back to our hostel room. So we came back. Movement is very risky these time'
BSE Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Consumer Durable, TECk, Power and Metal indices declined between 0.5-1%.
Fear factors weights on markets, Sensex, Nifty struggle to keep pace.
The heatwave, brought on by a mass of hot air flowing north from Africa to Europe in recent days, has enveloped Spain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and northern Italy, and is expected to last several days and extend further north.
On gold buying occasions such as Akshaya Tritiya, Chiraj Mehta points out, investors are often confronted with the question: Should I make just a token purchase, or should I buy more towards building my allocation in the yellow metal?
The S&P BSE Sensex ended the session at 25,342, up 3 points while the Nifty50 closed at 7,738 points.
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The rupee depreciated further by 7 paise to 65.12.
Sensex falls at close; metals, banks perform well.
Greeks are split on whether to accept an offer by creditors that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras calls a "humiliation"
Greece awoke with a political hangover on Thursday after parliament approved a stringent bailout programme, thanks to the votes of the pro-European opposition, amid the worst protest violence this year.
Governor Rajan can be more unambiguously pro-growth.
Neither India nor China will be badly affected by Grexit.
Among the private banking majors ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank were down 0.2%-0.5% each.
The dollar has fallen not just against commodity-linked assets but against other asset prices.
Select metal stocks rebounded while power stocks extended losses after SC verdict on coal block allocations.
The upcoming July derivatives expiry later in the week would also add some volatility to the market proceedings.
Foreign portfolio investors have been net positive since the Union Budget
'Markets should be driven more or less by earnings growth.'
ONGC, Sesa Sterlite, Tata Steel, RIL and HDFC emerged as the biggest losers
Usually, a fall in oil prices is followed with a cut in retail prices of auto fuels and the government passes on the benefit to consumers. However, Morgan Stanley believes gains this time around will remain capped.
If it goes ahead, the combination would create the world's biggest exchange by revenue.
Risk sentiment is likely to be favourable if oil prices stay benign, global growth sentiment remains robust and the dollar index does not break out, says B Prasanna.
Sweden has the world's highest negative rate.
Athens has pushed two reform packages through parliament
Consequences of China's efforts to stabilise its equity markets after three weeks of declines, which wiped out some 30 per cent of the value is far more importance to the world, says Clyde Russell.
Significantly, for the first time, the FATF put Myanmar in the "high risk jurisdictions subject to a call for action", often referred to as the watchdog's black list.
Exports dipped 1.6 per cent to 8.95 trillion yuan.
