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Oil prices rebound as new Iran sanctions fuel more supply concerns

The market had been lower earlier as interest rate hikes in the United States, Britain and Switzerland fed concerns about a slowdown in global economic growth.

Reliance Industries in focus as benchmark refining margin inches up

Morgan Stanley said RIL's margins would be 50 per cent above its last peak season in mid-2008

US weekly jobless claims fall modestly; housing starts hit 13-month low

Weekly jobless claims fall 3,000 to 229,000; continuing claims rise 3,000 to 1.31 mn

Central banks across the globe opt for shock and awe to tame inflation

The Federal Reserve has just delivered its biggest interest rate rise in over a quarter of a century and even the hitherto dovish Swiss National Bank has taken markets by surprise

Rs 15.74 trn of investors' wealth eroded as markets log 5th day of fall

In five trading days, the Sensex has dived 3,824.49 points, or 6.91%

Fed Reserve's aggressive rate hikes raise likelihood of recession

US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has pledged to do whatever it takes to curb inflation, now raging at a four-decade high and defying the Fed's efforts so far to tame it. Increasingly, it seems, doing so might require the one painful thing the Fed has sought to avoid: A recession. A worse-than-expected inflation report for May consumer prices rocketed up 8.6 per cent from a year earlier, the biggest jump since 1981 helped spur the Fed to raise its benchmark interest rate by three-quarters of point on Wednesday. Not since 1994 has the central bank raised its key rate by that much all at once. And until Friday's nasty inflation report, traders and economists had expected a rate hike of just half a percentage point on Wednesday. What's more, several more hikes are coming. The soft landing the Fed has hoped to achieve slowing inflation to its 2 per cent goal without derailing the economy is becoming both trickier and riskier than Powell had bargained for. Each rate hike means

Recession fears hit global mkts; Sensex drops 1,046 pts, Nifty below 15,400

CLOSING BELL: The S&P BSE Sensex and the Nifty50 indices hit fresh 52-week lows as they spiraled 2 per cent down

Gold eases on firmer dollar as investors digest rate hike by US Fed

Spot gold fell 0.3% to $1,827.60 per ounce by 0546 GMT. U.S. gold futures rose 0.6% to $1,830.60.

Rupee closes at new all-time low ahead of Fed's interest rate decision

On Monday, the rupee had breached the 78/$ mark and hit a record low of 78.28/$ intraday.

Five market breadth indicators that every cautious investor must know

In a note, IIFL Alternative Research has highlighted five market breadth indicators that signal extreme caution among investors

Bitcoin sinks to fresh 18-month low of $20,079 as crypto meltdown deepens

The value of the global crypto market has tumbled 70% to under $900 billion from a peak of $2.97 trillion in November, CoinMarketCap data shows

Fed hikes rates by 75 bps, biggest jump since 1994, flags slowing economy

Chairman Jerome Powell and colleagues on Wednesday intensified their effort to cool prices by lifting the target range for the federal funds rate to 1.5% to 1.75%

Growth stocks lift Wall Street ahead of Fed's rate decision; Nasdaq up 1.6%

Market heavyweights Apple Inc, Meta Platforms , Alphabet Inc, Microsoft Corp and Amazon.com Inc added between 1.3% and 2.5%

Oil prices fall as investors bet US Fed will announce a 75 bps hike

Brent crude futures for August were down $1.27, or 1%, at $119.90 a barrel as of 1001 GMT, in volatile trading

Emergency ECB meeting lifts European markets, Fed ready to go big

The euro jumped almost 0.75% to $1.0487 pushing the dollar index off a 20-year high in the process.

Sensex ends 152 pts lower ahead of US Fed decision; Nifty dips below 15,700

CLOSING BELL: NTPC, Infosys, HUL, Wipro, and RIL slipped over 1 per cent each

Higher unemployment rate looms in US as Fed fights inflation: Report

US Federal Reserve officials are beginning to signal that their efforts to tackle scorching inflation by raising interest rates may lead to higher unemployment, said a report

TMSEp194: Job announcement, food delivery apps, markets, economy categories

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Will 75 bps US Fed rate hike trigger another market selloff?

Soaring inflation and recession fears pose a dilemma before the US Fed on the quantum of rate hikes without derailing growth. Find out if investors would be able to withstand the likely market rout

US producer prices rise 10.8% in May, adding to pressure on Fed

On a monthly basis, producer prices climbed 0.8 per cent in May from April when they increased 0.4 per cent