Crypto loans - particularly those in decentralized-finance apps that dispense with intermediaries like banks - often require borrowers to put up more collateral than the loan is worth
Buying in IT stocks - spurred by a global trend - accounted for the bulk of the gains in the benchmark indices
Rising interest rates, too, do not augur well for corporate India as they will make raising money via debt expensive
Surging energy and food prices mean inflation in many places is now its hottest in decades
Month-to-date returns for most stock market gauges are flashing red
Existing home sales fell 3.4 per cent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.41 million units last month
Lender also raises interest rates on standard FDs, capping them at 6.5% for regular customers, 7.25% for seniors
Interest rate hikes, however, remain a pet peeve
The sharp rise in interest rates in the financial markets has made companies turn to commercial banks for their borrowing requirements
The central bank kept its policy settings for yield curve control and asset purchases, according to a statement on Friday, in line with the forecasts of almost all surveyed economists
The Dow had rallied on Wednesday after the Fed Chairman Jerome Powell announced its largest rate hike since 1994
Foreign investors sold shares worth 3,257.65 crore on Thursday, taking their year-to-date selling tally past the Rs 2-trllion mark
The S&P is down 22.2% year-to-date and is in a bear market
'We have a healthy conduit of proposals for corporate loans under review', said SBI chairman
Listed non-financial firms had saved nearly Rs 1 trn because of decline in interest rates in FY21, FY22
The European Central Bank meets on Thursday, though it is not expected to begin raising interest rates until July, with rate setters at the US Federal Reserve and Bank of England gathering next week
FY23 inflation projection may go above 6%; liquidity steps anticipated
It's time the central bank talked about 'appropriate' liquidity instead of 'adequate' liquidity
The 8.1 per cent EPF rate of interest is the lowest since 1977-78, when it stood at 8 per cent.
Third hike by HDFC in a month, ICICI increase steepest at 30 basis points