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Rupee keeps off 80 per dollar; foreign exchange reserves at 15-month low

The country's foreign exchange reserves had declined by $8 billion in the week ended July 8 to hit a 15-month low of $580.25 billion as RBI stepped intervention in the forex market

Wall Street climbs as investors trim bets on rate hike; Dow up 500 points

The S&P 500 was up 50.87 points, or 1.34%, at 3,841.25, and the Nasdaq Composite was up 120.63 points, or 1.07%, at 11,371.81

Rupee falls to 79.88 against dollar with 100 bps Fed hike on cards

The rupee was trading at 79.80 against the US dollar at 10.10am IST, compared to its close of 79.64 on Wednesday

Strength and opportunity: What rupee going 'international' will mean

The rupee is partially convertible. It attained current account convertibility in the early- through mid-1990s. This means the rupee can be converted to any foreign currency at existing market rates

Rupee ends at new low as global risk fears spur rush to safe-haven dollar

The rupee has already lost 0.5% to the greenback this week, taking the depreciation for 2022 so far to 6.7%

Fed sees 'more restrictive' rates possible if inflation persists: Minutes

Policy makers backed raising rates at their next meeting in July by either 50 or 75 basis points, according to minutes of the FOMC's June 14-15 policy meeting released Wednesday in Washington

Inflation targeting

It should be followed and communicated properly

Sensex, Nifty end flat in choppy session; metals, auto, IT packs slip most

Stock market LIVE updates: The broader markets suffered more losses than the frontline indices. The BSE MidCap and SmallCap indices shed 0.5 and 0.7 per cent, respectively.

US economy contracts 1.6% in first quarter amid record trade deficit

The US economy grew at a robust 6.9% pace in the fourth quarter

Sharp rate hike bets keep Wall Street subdued, Goldman Sachs lifts Dow

US economy contracted in Q1 amid record trade deficit; BofA upgrades Goldman Sachs, shares rise; General Mills rises as sales beat on higher prices; Bed Bath & Beyond replaces CEO, shares tumble

Crypto winter: Why this bitcoin bear market is different from the past

Crypto loans - particularly those in decentralized-finance apps that dispense with intermediaries like banks - often require borrowers to put up more collateral than the loan is worth

Oil prices weaken on hawkish Fed rhetoric, concerns about demand

US Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell said the central bank was focused on fighting inflation and that the labor market was unsustainably strong

Unknown unknowns

Risk of a global shock will increase with higher rates

Managing currency risks

Adjustment in the rupee exchange rate should not be delayed

Inflation: Looking beyond forecasts

It may be worthwhile to pay attention to what the markets are telling us, as they did during the pandemic, rather than rely on consensus forecasts

Fed Guv Waller backs another big rate hike for 'all in' inflation fight

Federal Reserve Guv Christopher Waller became the latest US central banker to pledge a whatever-it-takes approach to fighting inflation, three days after the Fed raised interest rates by 75 bps

Distress signals: US junk bond spreads top 500 bps, a first since 2020

Junk spreads have surged 100 basis points the past two weeks as the Federal Reserve's efforts to tame inflation fuel concerns that the central bank will push the economy into a recession

Average US mortgage rates show biggest single week jump in 35 years

Average long-term US mortgage rates had their biggest one-week jump in 35 years with the Federal Reserve this week raising its key rate by three-quarters of a point in bid to tame high inflation. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported on Thursday that the 30-year rate climbed from 5.23 per cent last week to 5.78 per cent this week, the highest its been since November of 2008 during the housing crisis. Wednesday's rate hike by the Fed was its biggest in a single action since 1994. The brisk jump in rates, along with a sharp increase in home prices, has been pushing potential homebuyers out of the market. Mortgage applications are down more than 15 per cent from last year and refinancings are down more than 70 per cent, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. Those figures are likely to worsen with more Fed rate increases a near certainty. The Fed's unusually large rate hike came after data released last week showed US inflation rose last month to a four-decade high of 8.6 per

World's central banks got it wrong on inflation and economies pay the price

ECB President Christine Lagarde has lately also turned more hawkish than she previously indicated, and the Reserve Bank of Australia is among those raising rates faster than policy makers had signaled

Wall Street slips heading into Fed's big rate decision; FedEx, Oracle rise

FedEx jumps after lifting quarterly dividend by more than 50%; Oracle rises as sales, profit top estimates on cloud boom; Continental Resources jumps on buyout proposal from founder