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Leading Indian brokerages gear up to offer seamless access to global stocks via GIFT City
Indian investors can now easily buy foreign stocks like Apple and Nvidia through GIFT City, thanks to major discount brokers like Groww and Zerodha launching overseas investing services. This move, facilitated by the Liberalised Remittance Scheme, allows investments starting from just $1 with fractional shares. While charges include brokerage and forex conversion, GIFT City offers a regulated framework for these international investments.
RBI buyback gets few bids despite cash crunch
The central bank's bond buyback saw a lukewarm market reception, attracting significantly less than the offered amount despite a liquidity deficit in the banking system. Banks held back, anticipating future inflows and preferring short-term papers. Meanwhile, the benchmark 10-year government bond yield dipped to its lowest since March, buoyed by falling oil prices and record overseas portfolio investments.
RBI buyback gets few bids despite cash crunch
The central bank's bond buyback saw a lukewarm market reception, attracting significantly less than the offered amount despite a liquidity deficit in the banking system. Banks held back, anticipating future inflows and preferring short-term papers. Meanwhile, the benchmark 10-year government bond yield dipped to its lowest since March, buoyed by falling oil prices and record overseas portfolio investments.
Churn at private banks' finance function, 2 CFOs quit
A significant reshuffle is underway in the finance departments of major Indian banks. Axis Bank and Bandhan Bank have seen their Chief Financial Officers resign, sparking speculation about future leadership. This follows another high-profile departure from HDFC Bank. Industry insiders suggest a potential move for one CFO to HDFC Bank, while another might step into the Axis Bank role, creating an unusual churn ahead of financial results.
SBI Securities prefers HDFC Bank, sees long-term upside in metals
Sunny Agarwal, Head Fundamental Research, Retail Desk at SBI Securities, remains positive on private banks, preferring HDFC Bank over Kotak Mahindra Bank after the lender received a clean legal review. He says Persistent Systems' acquisition benefits may take up to eight quarters to materialise, while slower growth remains a near-term concern. Agarwal is also bullish on the metals sector, with Indian Metals & Ferro Alloys as his top pick, and remains positive on Astral over the long term despite near-term challenges.
Stocks to buy below ₹100: Mehul Kothari of Anand Rathi recommends three shares to buy or sell
Next week, Bank Nifty's trading range is set between 57,000 and 59,000, with breakouts suggesting future trends. Analyst Mehul Kothari advises buying Trident, UCO Bank, and MMTC under ₹100, as the Indian market remains strong amid mixed signals and easing crude oil prices.
RBI Governor highlights exporters resilience amid an uncertain global trade environment
Governor, Reserve Bank of India, Sanjay Malhotra yesterday met in Mumbai with representatives of various Export Federations, Export Promotion Councils, Export Committee of Confederation of Indian Industry and Foreign Exchange Dealers' Association of India. In his address, the Governor highlighted significant contribution of exporters to India's economic transformation and commended their resilience amid an uncertain global trade environment and evolving geopolitical challenges. He underscored the importance of such engagements in understanding stakeholder concerns and facilitating informed policy formulation.
RBI Governor highlights resilience of exporters amid an uncertain global trade environment
Governor, Reserve Bank of India, Sanjay Malhotra yesterday met in Mumbai with representatives of various Export Federations, Export Promotion Councils, Export Committee of Confederation of Indian Industry and Foreign Exchange Dealers Association of India. In his address, the Governor highlighted significant contribution of exporters to Indias economic transformation and commended their resilience amid an uncertain global trade environment and evolving geopolitical challenges. He underscored the importance of such engagements in understanding stakeholder concerns and facilitating informed policy formulation.
Reserve Bank of India issues final rules on credit derivatives
The rules will allow resident Indian non-retail users to deploy instruments such as credit default swaps and total return swaps without any restrictions on purpose, while limiting the use of these instruments by non-resident users for hedging purposes.
Reserve Bank of India issues final rules on credit derivatives
The rules will allow resident Indian non-retail users to deploy instruments such as credit default swaps and total return swaps without any restrictions on purpose, while limiting the use of these instruments by non-resident users for hedging purposes.
INR rebounds on the back of a steep fall in global crude oil prices
The Indian rupee is witnessing a pullback from sharp decline registered this week in opening trades on Thursday as oil prices are receding to near pre war levels and by taking some positive cues from local equities. INR opened at Rs 94.30 and hit a high of 94.25 far during the day. Yesterday, rupee appreciated by 11 paise to settle at 94.65 against the US dollar on Wednesday on the back of a steep fall in global crude oil prices. Positive sentiments in the domestic equity markets and FII inflows further supported the local unit. Indian shares rose sharply on Wednesday amid easing geopolitical tensions and growing optimism around a potential U.S.-India bilateral trade agreement. Global oil prices fell to their lowest level in four months amid indications that more tankers stranded in the Gulf since the start of the Iran war were beginning to move through the Strait of Hormuz. However, dollar strength overseas on expectation of a near term rate hike is likely to cap any sharp gains in .
INR stays hammered as dollar stands tall on hawkish Fed
The Indian rupee continues to stay pressured against the dollar in opening trades on Wednesday, tracking firm dollar overseas. Mildly positive start to local equities and easing oil prices are unable to support rupee that is hammered by gains in DXY on the back of a hawkish dollar overseas. INR opened at Rs 94.88 per dollar and hit a low of 94.93 so far during the day. Yesterday, the counter settled at 94.76. The dollar index scales above 101 mark for the first time in more than a year amid growing indications of a Federal rate hike in the near future. The Federal Reserve's hawkish tone at its latest meeting is seen bolstering gains the U.S. dollar. The upcoming PCE inflation report, the Feds preferred gauge, will be closely watched this week for further clarity.