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India traditionally carried a 20-25% risk premium versus other emerging markets. However, recently, that premium has soared to 60%, a level unjustified by the current pace of corporate earnings growth, Sunil Tirumalai, head of Emerging Markets and Asia Equity Strategy at UBS Securities, said during a virtual media briefing on Tuesday. Indian equities often carry…
While Nithin Kamath, chief executive officer and co-founder of Zerodha, hailed India’s ascent to the fourth-largest economy in the world amid multiple challenges, he also called for looking just beyond the GDP numbers. The 45-year old enterprenuer offered a sobering reality check as he believes that GDP rankings don’t tell the full story. “It’s amazing…
LONDON, May 19 (Reuters) – Central bank body the Bank for International Settlements has flagged a possible scramble for dollars could be triggered if whipsawed investors begin to unwind positions in the $113 trillion FX swap market amid U.S. volatility. The BIS recently estimated that funds and other non-bank financial firms had more than $80…
In its latest “GREED & fear” report dated May 15, 2025, Jefferies highlighted how the easing of trade tensions between the U.S. and China could open up new opportunities for countries like India. While markets have been relieved by the recent pullback in tariff threats, the global supply chain realignment underway could give India a…
The shares of private lender IndusInd Bank slumped nearly 6% in intraday trade on Friday after it flagged fresh accounting errors following an internal audit of its microfinance business.
Edelweiss Mutual Fund CEO Radhika Gupta highlighted the difficulty of timing the stock market in light of the sharp rally seen in Indian indices today. Gupta, in a post on social media platform X, on May 12, posed questions to the investors, wherein she asks if one could have predicted the last week’s fall or…
RPG Enterprises Chairman, Harsh Goenka, in a social media post on May 10, outlined a list of economic risks which Pakistan has to face if the India-Pakistan conflict escalates into an even major stance of war. Also Read | IND PAK News LIVE: India debunks fake news about damaging mosques in Pak According to the…
Zomato Q4 Results: Zomato, now known as Eternal, on Thursday, May 1, posted a sharp decline of 78% year-on-year (YoY) in its January-March quarter of the financial year 2024-25 (FY25) to ₹39 crore, largely on account of the accelerated investments in its quick-commerce business Blinkit. Moreover, the slowdown in the food delivery business also has…
Big Tech firm, Google, believes that the company’s search engine arm, Chrome, would suffer in anyone else’s hands, amid an ongoing trial over market dominance at the Justice Department in the United States, reported the news agency Bloomberg on April 26. Parisa Tabriz, the general manager of Google Chrome, at the Washington federal court, said…
The trade war triggered by former US President Donald Trump’s tariff policies has fueled significant uncertainty, not just about the US economy, but about global economic growth as well. The situation is so unpredictable that even the US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell appears to be clueless about the impact of Trump’s tariff policies on…