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India Cements denies rumours of Rs 500 cr funding talks with BofA, Nomura

News report of funding talks emerged after UltraTech Cement announced its plans to acquire over 70 million shares in India Cements

Vodafone to sell 10% stake in Indus Towers for up to $1.1 billion

Vodafone plans to repay part of its $42.17 billion net debt using proceeds from the Indus Towers stake sale

Goldman Sachs aims to double lending to wealthy private bank clients

Goldman's total deposits jumped to $441 billion in the first quarter, with over 39 per cent coming from consumer accounts, versus $190 billion in total deposits at the end of 2019

Cheaper rupee boosting its lure as carry trade, says Bank of America

The rupee has become one of the least volatile currencies in emerging markets, aided by a long interest-rate pause by the Reserve Bank of India and record foreign exchange reserves

Bank of America bullish on rupee despite election led market volatility

The rupee inched up 0.1 per cent to 83.22 per dollar on Wednesday, the highest since April 10

Investors 'most bullish' since Nov 2021 on rate cut expectations: Survey

The survey of global fund managers with $562 billion in asset under management found 82% expect the first rate cut by the Federal Reserve in the second half

CRED to roll out payment checkout terminals to merchants this year

The devices will be interoperable and UPI users can pay through the checkout terminals using any application

Goldman Sachs taps BofA bankers for India dealmaking roles: Reports

India is the world's second busiest IPO market this year after the United States, with bankers expecting more activity amid a paucity of deals elsewhere in Asia, Reuters reported last month

SEC targets its own staff's texting, nixes WhatsApp office phones

The regulatory crackdown extracted at least $200 million apiece from Wall Street giants such as Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co and Goldman Sachs Group Inc, while also fining others

Ex-BofA veteran overseeing Vedanta Group's restructuring steps down

Davis, who was named as president for strategy at Vedanta Resources Ltd. last year, was working closely with the group's lenders and shareholders

Fundraising in India to be stronger than ever over next 2 years: BofA

Purohit expects between 5 and 10 tech firms and two or three local subsidiaries of multinational companies to launch initial public offerings in the period.

19% of global fund managers bullish on India; Japan most preferred: BofA

Among markets, investors preferred India and Taiwan apart from Japan, while avoiding Thailand and China, the survey suggested.

HDFC Bank accepts bids worth $750 mn for dollar bond issuances: Bankers

Barclays, Bank of America, JP Morgan, MUFG and Standard Chartered are the joint global coordinators and lead managers

HDFC Bank appoints BoA, Barclays for likely dollar bond issue, say bankers

HDFC Bank's Regulation-S notes will be rated Baa3 by Moody's and BBB- by S&P

India to budget fiscal deficit at 5.3% of GDP in FY25: BofA Securities

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will opt for a further reduction in fiscal deficit to 5.3 per cent of India's gross domestic product in the upcoming budget for FY25 despite poll pressure, a foreign brokerage said on Friday. The government will meet the FY24 commitment to reduce the important number to 5.9 per cent, BofA Securities said in a note. "We see Centre's fiscal deficit to consolidate further to 5.3 per cent of GDP, despite poll pressure," its analysts wrote in a note. The government will opt for continuing with its strategy of consolidating fiscal deficit through capital expenditure driven growth instead of expenditure compression, it said. The brokerage said digitization-led formalization has aided the fiscal math through tax buoyancy on one side and reducing wasteful expenditure (subsidy leakage) on the other. The government had earlier committed to reduce the fiscal deficit to 4.5 per cent by FY26 as part of its glide path to gradually reduce the gap, which is seen

State Bank of India raises $600 million through dollar bonds

S&P Global Ratings had assigned a BBB long-term issue rating to benchmark-sized notes that the London branch of SBI issued

Investors kick off 2024 with $123 billion record cash shift, says BofA

Energy stocks saw their seventh straight week of outflows, and the largest since July 2023 of $1.0 billion. U.S. small-cap stocks recorded a weekly inflow of $2.3 billion, their fifth weekly inflow in

Amazon's video ad push expected to generate extra $5 bn in revenue

Amazon's advertising business - mostly search and display ads on its web store - generated $12.1 billion in the quarter ended September 30, about 8.5% of total revenue

Asian fund managers more bullish on equities: Bank of America Survey

The return expectations are based on above-par earnings and supportive policy

India's relative position at its strongest in many years: Raj Balakrishnan

The deal pipeline across products is robust for 2024. Banks are actively working on several IPOs, with plans to file them in the next three months, says Balakrishnan