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Jan 22, 2016 11:23 AM IST Richard Gibbs of Plantagenet Investments says stimulus expectations have been running very high since Mario Draghi's commentary.
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Jan 22, 2016 10:48 AM IST Ian Hui, Global Market Strategist, JPMorgan Asset Management expects further downside in Indian market if earnings continue to disappoint.
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Jan 22, 2016 08:29 AM IST Shane Oliver, head of investment strategy at AMP Capital Investors says markets may have already seen near-term bottom.
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Jan 22, 2016 07:50 AM IST Asian markets were broadly higher tracking the rally in European and US markets overnight, following European Central Bank President, Mario Draghi‘s hint at further stimulus.
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Jan 21, 2016 06:48 PM IST The European Central Bank held interest rates at record lows on Thursday, but the market crash, tumbling bank stocks and ebbing inflation may set the stage for action later in the year.
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Jan 21, 2016 10:28 AM IST Meeting for the first time since it cut rates and expanded its asset purchase programme in December, the ECB is expected to warn that inflation could stay ultra-low longer than an already downbeat forecast pegged on plunging oil prices, weak Chinese growth and the lack of decisive fiscal policy action at home.
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Jan 21, 2016 07:43 AM IST Raghuram Rajan, the governor of India's central bank, acknowledged that we may now be experiencing the darker side of the massive monetary stimulus of past years.
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Jan 18, 2016 07:45 AM IST The Nikkei futures' Friday close suggests Japan's Nikkei is likely to fall more than two percent, below its September trough to one-year lows while Australian shares on Monday fell 1.7 percent.
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Jan 15, 2016 11:08 AM IST The domestic unit resumed higher at 67.35 per dollar as against yesterday's closing level of 67.29 at the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market. It hovered in a range of 67.39 and 67.24 during morning deals before quoting at 67.38 per dollar at 1030 hrs.
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Jan 14, 2016 10:24 AM IST The falls prompted the Reserve Bank of India to sell dollars through state-owned banks to curb the rupee's decline.
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Jan 14, 2016 07:41 AM IST MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS dropped 0.7 percent in early trade. Japan's Nikkei shed 3.3 percent, as downbeat domestic data added to the gloom.
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Jan 12, 2016 11:57 AM IST The rupee resumed lower at 66.83 per dollar against yesterday's closing level of 66.81 at the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market. Later, it recovered 11 paise to quote 66.70 on good bouts of dollar selling by banks, it slid again to 66.92 before quoting at 66.89 per dollar at 1030 hrs.
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Jan 11, 2016 12:02 PM IST The Indian rupee resumed sharply lower at 66.90 per dollar against last Friday's closing level of 66.63 per dollar at the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market. It moved in a range of 66.92 and 66.79 per dollar during morning deals before quoting at 66.80 at 1030 hrs.
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Jan 06, 2016 11:37 AM IST Earlier, the rupee resumed lower at 66.69 as against last yesterday's closing level of 66.60 at the Interbank Foreign Exchange (forex) market. Later, it fell on heavy bouts of dollar demand from importers to 66.82 before quoting at 66.70 at 1030 hours.
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Dec 31, 2015 11:56 AM IST The rupee resumed lower at 66.45 as against overnight closing level of 66.39 at the Inter-bank Foreign Exchange (forex) market. It slid further before quoting at 66.39 at 1030 hours.
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Dec 29, 2015 07:59 AM IST Spot gold was little changed at USD 1,070.05 an ounce by 0116 GMT, after losing 0.6 percent in the previous session. Volumes remained thin in the last trading week of the year.
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Dec 24, 2015 02:23 PM IST While the government announced a slew of steps and the Reserve Bank also intervened on a few occasions to support the forex market, a highly volatile trend continued to rule the exchange rates due to global headwinds through 2015, during which the Indian currency also hit a two-year low below Rs 67 mark against the US greenback.
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Dec 24, 2015 10:36 AM IST Oil prices, on the other hand, may bounce back as the current slump is largely due to the ongoing El Nino weather phenomenon that is causing a milder than usual winter, said Mark Jolley, equity strategist at CCB International Securities in Hong Kong.
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Dec 23, 2015 12:03 PM IST The rupee resumed higher at 66.26 as against yesterday's closing level of 66.33 at the Inter-bank Foreign Exchange (forex) market. It moved in a range of 66.30 and 66.22 during the morning deals before quoting at 66.21 at 1121 hours.
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Dec 18, 2015 07:48 AM IST By contrast, Taiwan's central bank cut interest rates for the second time this year and said it would keep monetary policy loose to shore up growth in the island's trade-dependent economy as the global demand outlook worsened.
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Dec 17, 2015 08:09 AM IST The Federal Reserve's 25-basis-point increase was almost a decade in the making and easily one of the most telegraphed in history. So there was some relief that, after months of waiting and several false starts, the move was finally done and dusted.
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Dec 16, 2015 07:59 AM IST With a hike seen as a mostly done deal after more than a year of anticipation, investor focus is fixed on how the Fed might opt to pace its tightening cycle next year. The central bank has hinted that it intends to hike rates gradually.
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Dec 15, 2015 12:00 PM IST Earlier, the domestic unit opened higher at 67.03 against yesterday's 27-month low of 67.09 at the Interbank Foreign Exchange Market. It appreciated further on dollar selling from banks to scale-back to 66.96 before quoting at 67.08 at 1030 hrs.
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Dec 15, 2015 07:56 AM IST Markets were also focused on whether the People's Bank of China (PBOC) would continue to guide its currency lower, with traders wary about the central bank's intentions after it set the yuan/dollar official midpoint at 4-1/2-year lows in recent session.
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Dec 11, 2015 11:43 AM IST The rupee resumed lower by 66.80 per dollar from yesterday's closing level of 66.71 at the Interbank Foreign Exchange Market.