Finance

July 24, 2020 11:07 AM

Oil rises on weaker dollar, but virus woes and U.S.-China tensions weigh

The dollar slid to 22-month lows against a basket of currencies .DXY. A weaker dollar usually spurs buying of commodities priced in the greenback, like oil, because they become cheaper for holders of other currencies. Brent crude LCOc1 rose 15 cents, or 0.4%, to $43.46 a barrel by 0137 GMT, and U...

July 21, 2020 1:34 PM

CBIC and CBDT sign MoU to facilitate smoother bilateral exchange of data

This MoU supersedes the MoU signed between CBDT and the erstwhile Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) in the year 2015. Significant developments have taken place since the signing of earlier MoU in 2015 including introduction of GST, incorporation of GSTN and change in the nomenclature of ...

May 21, 2020 10:06 AM

World Bank names financial crisis expert Carmen Reinhart as chief economist

World Bank President David Malpass said in a statement Reinhart’s experience and insights would prove invaluable as the coronavirus pandemic heaps economic pain on developing countries. She starts at the bank on June 15. Reinhart, a professor at Harvard University, published a book entitled “...

March 11, 2024 5:08 PM

Sensex slumps over 400 points; Nifty drops below 9,200

After touching a low of 31,097.50, the 30-share index was trading 400.20 points or 1.27 per cent lower at 31,161.02. Similarly, NSE Nifty declined 103.95 points, or 1.13 per cent, to 9,135.25. Asian Paints was the top loser in the Sensex pack, falling over 3 per cent, followed by HDFC duo, Mar...

March 11, 2024 5:08 PM

Sensex rises 416 points; financial stocks steal the show

Though, after rallying over 700 points during the session, the BSE gauge pared some of its intra-day gains. The 30-share index finally settled 415.86 points or 1.33 per cent higher at 31,743.08. Similarly, the NSE Nifty closed 127.90 points, or 1.40 per cent, to 9,282.30. IndusInd Bank was the...

April 9, 2020 8:15 AM

Global trade will plunge by up to a third in 2020: WTO

"COVID-19 has completely upended the global economy and with it international trade," WTO chief Roberto Azevedo told reporters in a virtual briefing from Geneva. The global trade body was projecting that "trade in 2020 will fall steeply in every region of the world, and basically across all secto...

March 16, 2020 1:39 PM

US Fed slashes interest rates to near zero amid coronavirus scare

The Fed on Sunday made its second emergency rate cut in less than two weeks, cutting the benchmark borrowing rate to a range of 0 to 0.25 percent, where it was during the 2008 global financial crisis. It pledged to keep it there "until it is confident that the economy has weathered recent events....