Most Asia-Pacific share indexes followed Wall Street higher, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng leading gains in the region, while benchmark US Treasury yields continued their decline, marking a fresh three-week low

The International Monetary Fund Deputy Chief Economist, Petya Koeva Brooks, in an interview to PTI on Friday also made a strong case for an additional economic stimulus to address the impact of the pandemic on the country's economy

UBS Securities India chief economist Tanvee Gupta-Jain on Tuesday retained the earlier house view of 11.5 per cent GDP growth this fiscal, saying the second wave has come as they were planning to upwardly revise growth forecast

Nonfarm payrolls surged by 916,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said on Friday. That was be the biggest gain since last August. Data for February was revised higher to show 468,000 jobs created instead of the previously reported 379,000

The rupee is expected to average around 73.50-74 in FY22, as, despite a vaccine, the COVID-19 frenzy still persists and is likely to continue to grapple the foreign exchange market

Treasury volatility dropped last week as buyers stepped back into the market, bringing benchmark yields back below the one-year high of 1.754% reached last week

The ratings agency, in its latest Global Economic Outlook (GEO), anticipates the level of the country's GDP to remain well below its pre-pandemic forecast trajectory

Before the pandemic struck, applications for unemployment aid had never topped 700,000 in any one week

India is estimated to contract by 6.9 per cent in 2020 and then forecast to record a 5 per cent GDP growth in 2021, the report said

\"Strong data are ahead of us,\" a confident Fed Chair Jerome Powell said after a two-day policy meeting, ticking off the list of forces Fed officials expect will produce 6.5% GDP growth this year

Stock Market News Update Today: Bajaj Auto, Maruti Suzuki, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Reliance Industries, UltraTech Cement were among top losers, while Power Grid Corporation, Titan, ONGC and Infosys were among notable gainers.

Industry experts believe the weakening of gold prices may be short-lived. A weakening dollar, growing inflationary pressure, debt accumulation and monetary expansion are all drivers for positive gold price

Stock Market Updates Today: Kotak Mahindra Bank, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, HDFC, Bajaj Finance, Axis Bank, M&M were among top gainers, while ONGC, Power Grid Corporation, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, NTPC and Bharti Airtel were among top laggards

Shares of YES Bank, Reliance, Airtel, Vodafone Idea, Ircon International, Ruchi Soya, Ion Exchange will be in focus in Wednesday's trading session

The central bank has taken a number of liquidity measures outside the MPC, which means a dilution of the MPC's role. The new arrangement agreed between the government and the RBI means a review of the inflation target and not the entire framework

Domestic markets dropped further by the second half of Monday after European stocks declined at the opening bell amid cautious trade in global markets as investors focused on the developments surrounding the pandemic and vaccine rollout

Sensex and Nifty fell sharply today, led by selling pressure in the auto and banking sectors. The broader mood of the market turned bearish last week, after a few days of the lacklustre movement

Private wealth creators are solely responsible for India's banking stress; increasingly fleeing India with their wealth and bank loans, and those making huge profits are doing so by cutting jobs and wages

To emerge stronger, it is important for us as a country to bridge the gap between policy announcements and their implementation by strengthening and empowering institutions to bolster economic growth

In Ganganagar district of Rajasthan, prices shot up to Rs 100.13 per litre for non-branded petrol on February 17. The prices of branded petrol had already breached the Rs 100 level a fortnight ago