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1 week, 3 days ago

Rupee hits new low of 84.88 against USD

The rupee is expected to trade near 84.5 against the dollar by end December. A strong dollar continues to create a depreciating bias for currencies globally and is likely to sustain FPI outflows from Indian markets in the near term. As a result, the 10Y UST yield has surged by 71bps between October and November, while the dollar index has …

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

Indian stock market: 8 key things that changed for market overnight - Gift Nifty, Jerome Powell to US Treasury yields

Live Mint

Indian stock market: The domestic equity benchmark indices, Sensex and Nifty 50, are expected to open on a cautious note on Thursday amid mixed cues from global peers. Asian markets traded mixed, while the US stock market ended higher overnight, with all three major indices notching record highs. Gift Nifty Today Gift Nifty was trading around 24,520 level, a discount …

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Yen hits 6-week high amid growing BOJ rate hike bets

Live Mint

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO, Nov 29 - The yen jumped as much as 1.2% against the U.S. dollar to a six-week high on Friday, after faster-than-expected inflation in Tokyo supported bets for a Bank of Japan interest rate hike next month. The dollar index, which measures the greenback versus the yen, sterling, euro, and three other rivals, was 0.2% weaker …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Trump’s Treasury secretary will face a daunting challenge

Live Mint

Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for US Treasury Secretary, will face two big challenges if confirmed by the Senate: Ensuring that the world’s largest government-debt market functions properly, and pursuing a fiscal policy that doesn’t send the country’s debt-service costs soaring. This puts the onus on the US and foreign banks known as primary dealers, which also don’t have …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Trump tariff vow hit

Live Mint

By Alden Bentley NEW YORK, - A pledge by President-elect Donald Trump to impose tariffs on products from Canada, Mexico and China sent their currencies lower against the dollar on Tuesday, renewing the specter of trade wars and fanning uncertainty in other currency pairs. But, of course, the peso is vulnerable to falling into those multi-year lows against the U.S. …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Wall St closes higher; small-caps hit record high after Trump nominates Bessent

Live Mint

* Barclays raises full-year S&P 500 forecast * Bond yields drop as Bessent's move seen easing fiscal concerns * Macy's slides after delaying Q3 report on accounting issue By Saeed Azhar, Johann M Cherian and Purvi Agarwal Nov 25 - Wall Street's main indexes ended higher on Monday, with the small-cap Russell 2000 index hitting an all-time high after Scott …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

Amid alarming talk of World War 3, here are four ways to protect YOUR wealth from global turmoil: JEFF PRESTRIDGE

Daily Mail

We live in scary times – some would say the most frightening since the missile crisis of 1962, when the world was brought to the brink of nuclear war over the Soviet Union’s decision to deploy weapons of mass destruction in Cuba. Of course, it is only a whisper – and as Matthew Savill, a director of military sciences at …

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1 month ago

China is armed and ready for trade war 2.0 with Donald Trump

CNN

Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Meanwhile in China newsletter which explores what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. That’s why, despite selling less to the United States, China’s share of global exports is now at 14%, up from 13% before the first Trump tariffs. At a press conference on Friday, Wang …

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1 month ago

China is armed and ready for trade war 2.0 with Donald Trump

CNN

Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Meanwhile in China newsletter which explores what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. That’s why, despite selling less to the United States, China’s share of global exports is now at 14%, up from 13% before the first Trump tariffs. At a press conference on Friday, Wang …

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1 month ago

Mortgage rates: Bad news if you’re looking to buy a house in the next two years

CNN

Washington CNN — Americans looking to purchase a home in the next few years will have a tough pill to swallow. Mortgage rates are now expected to stay stuck above 6% for at least the next two years, according to economists and recent forecasts. Wells Fargo economists project mortgage rates to average 6.3% by the end of next year, according …

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1 month ago

Is the Donald Trump-Elon Musk bromance already hitting a roadblock?

Firstpost

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, seems to have had a blazing row with Boris Epshteyn, one of President-elect Donald Trump’s top advisers over his influence over the Cabinet picks. Some Trump insiders are accusing Elon Musk of trying to act as ‘co-president.’ Image Credit: AFP Musk is famed for his manic working habits and self-described “hardcore” style, running his …

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1 month ago

Uniqus Consultech Onboards UST as an Investor, as Part of its Previously Announced Series B Round

Live Mint

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India & Aliso Viejo, Calif., United States – Business Wire India UST, a leading digital transformation solutions company, has invested in Uniqus Consultech, a tech-enabled global platform that offers consulting solutions in the accounting & reporting, finance operations, governance, risk, ESG, and technology domains. The alliance between UST and Uniqus combines deep functional knowledge and strong technology capabilities …

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1 month ago

Explained: 3 reasons why Sensex, Nifty failed to sustain relief rally

India Today

The Indian stock markets began Tuesday with optimism, offering some relief to investors after a seven-day losing streak. The volatility reflected ongoing investor caution amid weak earnings reports, persistent foreign outflows, and broader economic concerns. Vinod Nair, Head of Research at Geojit Financial Services, explained that the relief rally was short-lived due to consistent foreign institutional investor selling and disappointing …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Trump’s comeback to bring massive tariffs, trade wars & global economic turmoil?

Firstpost

Donald Trump’s return as US President could bring significant economic shifts, with proposed tariffs and stricter immigration policies affecting global trade and emerging markets. These tariffs could also affect global economic growth, with the International Monetary Fund projecting it at just 3.2 per cent for next year. In a recent interview, IMF First Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath stated that …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Bloomberg: The China Show 11/07/2024

Bloomberg

00:00 Half an hour away from the opens in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Shanghai are watching the China show. I mean, if there's a threat of tariffs here, do you think, you know, there's a people talking about there's a difference between the candidate Trump and what he will be as President Trump? We know he's talked about tariffs as …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

The US Federal Reserve must do two things right now

Live Mint

As US Federal Reserve officials deliberate monetary policy, they may wish to recall what happened when policymakers in past decades became overconfident in using demand management measures to ‘fine tune’ the economy. Its obsession with data dependency has seen it over-react to noisy historical data, lacking the more strategic forward-looking approach needed when using policy tools that operate with ‘long …

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2 months ago

What is the Hezbollah-linked financial institution Israel is targeting in Lebanon?

Live Mint

What is the Hezbollah-linked financial institution Israel is targeting in Lebanon? {{^adFree}} {{/adFree}} The strikes destroyed more than a dozen branches of al-Qard al-Hasan across Lebanon Sunday night, and came two weeks after an airstrike killed the man who many referred to as Hezbollah’s “finance minister." A year later, the Biden administration slapped terrorism sanctions on two others, including al-Qard …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

43 members of Congress violated stock law

Raw Story

At least 62 members of 118th Congress have violated a federal insider trading and conflicts-of-interest law, a Raw Story analysis of congressional financial disclosures reveals. Raw Story reported in June that Allen was late in disclosing his spouse’s March 27 sale — valued between $100,001 to $250,000 — of stock in SouthState Corporation, a financial services company. "Sen. Hagerty did …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Fact check: Trump and Vance keep falsely describing how tariffs work

CNN

Washington CNN — Former President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance continue to falsely describe how one of their major policy proposals, across-the-board tariffs, would work. It’s a tax on another country.” And he said again during a rally in Wisconsin Saturday that “it’s not going to be a cost to you, it’s going to be …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

AI regulation is coming. Fortune 500 companies are bracing for impact.

Live Mint

The state of artificial intelligence regulation in the U.S., or the lack of it, is a pressing matter for Fortune 500 companies as they launch AI projects. For Motorola Solutions, complying with existing and new AI and data usage laws may be “onerous and expensive," and inconsistencies in regulation from jurisdiction to jurisdiction could increase costs and liability, the communications …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris go quiet on America's biggest economic issue

ABC

Guitar virtuoso and social satirist the late Frank Zappa once labelled American politics "the entertainment division of the military industrial complex". During Greece's financial crisis, its debt to GDP level was flashing red at 140 per cent. Its debt to GDP level was flashing red at 140 per cent, sparking what many believed would be the onset of an economic …

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4 months ago

Busting the myths of 'overcapacity'

China Daily

Jin Ding/China Daily While benefiting the global energy transition and following a typical globalization path of multinational companies, Chinese companies have nonetheless been accused of "overcapacity" by Western politicians and subjected to heavy tariffs. Chinese EVs don't actually have a presence in the US market, yet politicians still use their imaginations to criticize China. US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo repeatedly …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Lawmakers caught in controversy as congressional stock trading debate rages on

Raw Story

Members of Congress are on a summer stock shopping spree — and still violating a financial disclosure law — amid a reinvigorated movement to ban congressional stock trading. Joyce reported on Aug. 6 a dozen stock transactions after the 45-day deadline required in the STOCK Act for disclosing most purchases, sales and exchanges of stocks, bonds, commodity futures, securities and …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

US Treasury official visits Ukraine to discuss sanctions on Moscow and seizing Russian assets

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A senior U.S. Treasury official has met with Ukrainian officials in Kyiv to discuss U.S. financial support, enforcing sanctions on Russia and using frozen Russian assets for Ukraine’s benefit in the war with Moscow. The visit this week by Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo came as Russia gains territory after a lengthy delay in U.S. military aid left Ukraine …

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Rupee hits new low of 84.88 against USD

Indian stock market: 8 key things that changed for market overnight - Gift Nifty, Jerome Powell to US Treasury yields

Yen hits 6-week high amid growing BOJ rate hike bets

Trump’s Treasury secretary will face a daunting challenge

Trump tariff vow hit

Wall St closes higher; small-caps hit record high after Trump nominates Bessent

Amid alarming talk of World War 3, here are four ways to protect YOUR wealth from global turmoil: JEFF PRESTRIDGE

China is armed and ready for trade war 2.0 with Donald Trump

China is armed and ready for trade war 2.0 with Donald Trump

Mortgage rates: Bad news if you’re looking to buy a house in the next two years

Is the Donald Trump-Elon Musk bromance already hitting a roadblock?

Uniqus Consultech Onboards UST as an Investor, as Part of its Previously Announced Series B Round

Explained: 3 reasons why Sensex, Nifty failed to sustain relief rally

Trump’s comeback to bring massive tariffs, trade wars & global economic turmoil?

Bloomberg: The China Show 11/07/2024

The US Federal Reserve must do two things right now

What is the Hezbollah-linked financial institution Israel is targeting in Lebanon?

43 members of Congress violated stock law

Fact check: Trump and Vance keep falsely describing how tariffs work

AI regulation is coming. Fortune 500 companies are bracing for impact.

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris go quiet on America's biggest economic issue

Busting the myths of 'overcapacity'

Lawmakers caught in controversy as congressional stock trading debate rages on

US Treasury official visits Ukraine to discuss sanctions on Moscow and seizing Russian assets