Fed

Markets are clearly being tugged in different directions though

A sharp surge in the market from this year's lows in June is stoking equity-share sales at listed companies

Live news updates: Besides Gokhale, the spokesperson of the TMC, others have also filed petitions challenging the tenure extension and the enabling amended law in this regard in the top court.

While the impact on other currencies has been sharp with most of them depreciating, the rupee has done well, being somewhere in the middle

The benchmark 10-year US Treasury yield hit a three-year high last week in the wake of hawkish comments from Fed officials

Competing for the limelight, U.S. Treasury yields climbed steadily after U.S. Fed chair Jerome Powell signalled the Fed may speed up the pace of its bond-buying taper at its meeting later this month

A low neutral rate means the Fed has less room to move before that stimulus is gone

The Fed remains concerned that with interest rates still close to zero it would have to rely on more unconventional policy tools should the economy slow