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Rupee falls 7 paise to 85.83 against US dollar in early trade

April 08, 2025 10:40 am

The RBI's monetary policy committee headed by Governor Sanjay Malhotra began its three-day deliberations on key interest rates on Monday. The decision is scheduled to be announced on Wednesday.

How AI overtook oil in the global market

March 02, 2024 10:24 am

With Nvidia’s rise, are GPUs the new oil of our time?

UK stock markets will be glad to forget Boris Johnson’s tenure

July 08, 2022 1:30 pm

The FTSE 100 and the locally-focused FTSE 250 have both fallen about 8% in dollar terms since the outgoing Prime Minister took office in July 2019, with a bleak economic outlook and political turmoil since Brexit keeping investors away from UK assets.

Japan's Nikkei ends flat after ex-PM Shinzo Abe shot

July 08, 2022 1:13 pm

The Nikkei index closed up 0.1% at 26,517.19 after climbing as much as 1.4% earlier in the session.

Stocks drop, bonds jump on fears over virus strain: Global markets wrap

November 26, 2021 11:46 am

The dollar was at a 16-month high, while South Africa’s rand weakened and commodity currencies retreated.

Indices halt a 4-day losing streak as Sensex climbs 1,628 points, Nifty ends above 8,700-mark

March 20, 2020 4:11 pm

The S&P BSE Sensex rose 1,627.73 points (5.75 per cent) to settle at 29,915.96, while the Nifty 50 ended at 8,745.45, up 482.00 points (5.83 per cent). On a week-on-week basis, the Sensex recorded a 12.28 per cent fall while the Nifty saw a 12.15 per cent drop.

Another black Monday as coronavirus response upends Wall Street

March 17, 2020 10:59 am

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2,997.1 points, or 12.93%, to 20,188.52, the S&P 500 lost 324.89 points, or 11.98%, to 2,386.13. The Nasdaq Composite dropped 970.28 points, or 12.32%, to 6,904.59.

Global stocks plummet after Trump bans travel from Europe to contain coronavirus blow

March 12, 2020 10:48 am

US S&P500 futures dived 4.7 per cent, a day after the S&P 500 lost 4.89 per cent, putting the index firmly in a bear market territory, defined as a 20 per cent fall from a recent top. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan lost 4.1 per cent to its lowest level since early 2019, while Japan's Nikkei dropped 5.3 per cent.

Asian shares hover around 3-week highs on Chinese support measures

February 17, 2020 9:40 am

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was a tad firmer at 557.30, not far from last week's peak of 558.30, which was the highest since late January.

China won't hike grain import quotas for US trade deal: Caixin report

January 07, 2020 11:16 am

The report raises further questions about how China will meet a target of spending billions of dollars more on US agricultural goods as the two countries look to reach an initial agreement to calm an extended trade war.

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