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SBI chairman C S Setty on Wednesday said the Rs 25,000-crore capital raise through the qualified institutional placement (QIP) route is a vote of confidence on the country's largest lender and also the Indian economy. Speaking at a ceremony at the NSE to mark the the fund raise as India's biggest share sale ever, Setty said the capital will be deployed for asset growth. He also said that even before the QIP, the bank was in a position to support asset growth of up to Rs 6 lakh crore, but the fund raise will be of help for it. "This landmark equity issue is a vote of confidence in SBI's strong fundamentals, potential risk management and the customer centricity with the digital first approach," Setty said. Thanking the investors led by state-run life insurance behemoth LIC for the response to the issue, which received bids of over Rs 1.12 lakh crore and was over-subscribed by over four times, Setty also spelled out the revised capital levels. The common equity tier-I capital will ..
JPMorgan's net income soared 50 per cent to more than USD 14 billion in the fourth quarter as the bank's profit and revenue easily beat Wall Street forecasts, and other major banks reported banner earnings for the year. Earnings per share rose to USD 4.81 from USD 3.04 a year ago. The result beat Wall Street profit projections of USD 4.09 a share, according to the data firm FactSet. Total managed revenue hit USD 43.7 billion, up 10 per cent, from USD 39.9 billion a year ago. Wall Street was expecting revenue of USD 41.9 billion. JPMorgan posted a record USD 54 billion profit for the year, or USD 18.22 per share, adjusted for one-time expenses. Yet interest income fell 3 per cent to USD 23.5 billion, driven lower by lower interest rates. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said the bank got a boost from investment banking business, where fees rose 49 per cent and markets revenue jumped 21 per cent. The bank's consumer banking business also thrived, with clients opening nearly 2 million check
No one knows how Tuesday's presidential election will turn out, but the Federal Reserve's move two days later is much easier to predict: With inflation continuing to cool, the Fed is set to cut interest rates for a second time this year. The presidential contest might still be unresolved when the Fed ends its two-day meeting Thursday afternoon, yet that uncertainty would have no effect on its decision to further reduce its benchmark rate. The Fed's future actions, though, will become more unsettled once a new president and Congress take office in January, particularly if Donald Trump were to win the White House again. Trump's proposals to impose high tariffs on all imports and launch mass deportations of unauthorised immigrants and his threat to intrude on the Fed's normally independent rate decisions could send inflation surging, economists have said. Higher inflation would, in turn, compel the Fed to slow or stop its rate cuts. On Thursday, the Fed's policymakers, led by Chair ..