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Nasdaq turns positive after Fed chair's remarks on policy outlook

In his prepared remarks before the Senate Banking Committee, Jerome Powell reiterated that ongoing increases in the policy rate would be appropriate

Global shares dip despite Wall Street rally; focus shifts to Fed's Powell

Global shares declined Wednesday as markets shrugged off a Wall Street rally and awaited congressional testimony by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. European benchmarks fell in early trading after shares in Asia finished lower, including in Japan, Australia, South Korea and China. US futures were also down. France's CAC 40 lost 1.9% in early trading to 5,853.92, while Germany's DAX dove 2.3% to 12,989.70. Britain's FTSE 100 fell 1.2% to 7,066.66. US shares were set to drift lower with Dow futures at 30,037.00, down 1.6%. S&P 500 futures fell 1.9% to 3,698.00. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 shed 0.4% to finish at 26,149.55. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.2% to 6,508.50. South Korea's Kospi tumbled 2.7% to 2,342.81. Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropped 2.6% to 21,008.34, while the Shanghai Composite sank 1.2% to 3,267.20. Stocks have been mostly sliding in recent weeks as investors adjust to higher interest rates that the Federal Reserve and other central banks are increasingly ...

Will buy Indian stocks if Nifty drops to around 14,000 levels: Chris Wood

In the short-term, Wood suggests that investors should sell stocks on a rally. The bet for a sustained equity market rally before 2022 end is a possible change in the US Fed's language, he said

Inflation spirals: How are Sri Lanka, Turkey and Argentina dealing with it?

Inflation is a headache in India but a life-threatening disease in Sri Lanka, Argentina, and Turkey. Here is how their central banks are battling the necessary evil

Risk of US recession now higher and more front-loaded, warns Goldman

The Goldman economists now see a 30% probability of entering a recession over the next year, compared to 15% previously, and a 25% conditional probability of entering a recession in the second year

Cloudy valuations give investors pause in buying beaten-up US stocks

Market volatility and a rapidly changing macroeconomic landscape have clouded metrics that investors typically use to value stocks

TMSEp196: Airfare hike, Shankar Sharma, markets, Sec8 of Companies Act

How will the airfare hike impact travel? What's First Global's Shankar Sharma's investment strategy? Why US Fed's rate hike failed to calm markets? What is Section 8 of Companies Act? Answers here

TMSEp196: Airfare hike, Shankar Sharma, markets, Sec8 of Companies Act

How will the airfare hike impact travel? What's First Global's Shankar Sharma's investment strategy? Why US Fed's rate hike failed to calm markets? What is Section 8 of Companies Act? Answers here

Why US Fed's rate hike failed to calm markets?

The S&P BSE Sensex and Nifty50 indices hit 52-week lows on Thursday, as economists fear a recession could be around the corner for the US. Markets watchers see more pain ahead for the Indian markets

Dow Jones falls 758 points to lowest in over a year, techs slide

The Dow had rallied on Wednesday after the Fed Chairman Jerome Powell announced its largest rate hike since 1994

Sensex, Nifty tumble 2% on Federal Reserve's steep interest rate hike

Foreign investors sold shares worth 3,257.65 crore on Thursday, taking their year-to-date selling tally past the Rs 2-trllion mark

Investors brace for recession, more mkt turmoil after Fed's supersized hike

The S&P is down 22.2% year-to-date and is in a bear market

Wall St sinks as recession fears ripple through markets; Nasdaq down 3.85%

Growth stocks decline, banks also down; S&P 500 down 22.9% year-to-date

Don't see any adverse impact of US Fed Reserve rate hike: DEA secy Seth

The government does not see any adverse impact on the Indian economy post the US Federal Reserve's decision to raise interest rates by 75 basis points, Economic Affairs Secretary Ajay Seth said

Oil prices rebound as new Iran sanctions fuel more supply concerns

The market had been lower earlier as interest rate hikes in the United States, Britain and Switzerland fed concerns about a slowdown in global economic growth.

Reliance Industries in focus as benchmark refining margin inches up

Morgan Stanley said RIL's margins would be 50 per cent above its last peak season in mid-2008

US weekly jobless claims fall modestly; housing starts hit 13-month low

Weekly jobless claims fall 3,000 to 229,000; continuing claims rise 3,000 to 1.31 mn

Central banks across the globe opt for shock and awe to tame inflation

The Federal Reserve has just delivered its biggest interest rate rise in over a quarter of a century and even the hitherto dovish Swiss National Bank has taken markets by surprise

Rs 15.74 trn of investors' wealth eroded as markets log 5th day of fall

In five trading days, the Sensex has dived 3,824.49 points, or 6.91%

Fed Reserve's aggressive rate hikes raise likelihood of recession

US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has pledged to do whatever it takes to curb inflation, now raging at a four-decade high and defying the Fed's efforts so far to tame it. Increasingly, it seems, doing so might require the one painful thing the Fed has sought to avoid: A recession. A worse-than-expected inflation report for May consumer prices rocketed up 8.6 per cent from a year earlier, the biggest jump since 1981 helped spur the Fed to raise its benchmark interest rate by three-quarters of point on Wednesday. Not since 1994 has the central bank raised its key rate by that much all at once. And until Friday's nasty inflation report, traders and economists had expected a rate hike of just half a percentage point on Wednesday. What's more, several more hikes are coming. The soft landing the Fed has hoped to achieve slowing inflation to its 2 per cent goal without derailing the economy is becoming both trickier and riskier than Powell had bargained for. Each rate hike means