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Black Monday: Stocks, rupee plunge on early US rate hike fears
Mar 09, 2015, 08:22 PM ISTMumbai: Fears of an earlier-than-expected rate hike by the US Federal Reserve spooked Indian stock market investors today with the Sensex cracking over 600 points to end below the key 29,000 level while the rupee
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Gold slides amid global worries, silver hits multi-year low
Oct 04, 2014, 05:23 PM ISTMumbai: Gold prices dropped in the domestic bullion market here today on emergence of fresh selling by stockists and investors triggered by a wider overnight global sell-off.Silver prices also plummeted to a four-year low on
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FIIs withdraw Rs 2,000 cr from Indian equities in a fortnight
Feb 16, 2014, 05:23 PM ISTNew Delhi: Overseas investors pulled out more than Rs 2,000 crore from Indian equities in a fortnight following a further reduction in the bond buying programme by the US Federal Reserve.Thus, Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs)
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RBI net buyer of dollar in Oct after 5-mth gap, buys USD 3.93 bn
Dec 10, 2013, 09:18 PM ISTMumbai: After a gap of five months, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was a net buyer of dollars in October after it bought nearly USD 4 billion worth greenback. This is first time since
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European Central Bank keeps rates unchanged
Dec 05, 2013, 06:42 PM ISTFrankfurt, Germany: The European Central Bank left its key interest rate unchanged on Thursday, even though the economic recovery has almost ground to a halt in the 17-country eurozone.The currency bloc's chief monetary authority left
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US economy adds 204,000 jobs in October, unemployment rises to 7.3%
Nov 08, 2013, 08:53 PM ISTWashington: The US economy added 204,000 jobs in October, an unexpected burst of hiring during a month in which the federal government was partially shut down for 16 days. The Labor Department said Friday that
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Rupee plummets by 77 paise to one-month low versus US dollar
Nov 06, 2013, 07:55 PM ISTMumbai: In step with the weak stock market, the rupee today plunged by 77 paise to end at over one-month low of 62.39 against the dollar on renewed fears that the US Federal Reserve would
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Rupee falls 27 paise to 61.50 Vs dollar
Oct 31, 2013, 10:00 PM ISTMumbai: The rupee on Thursday fell 27 paise to 61.50 against the dollar on heavy month-end demand from importers for the US currency, which strengthened overseas after the Federal Reserve indicated it may taper its
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Better placed to face Fed taper, CAD worries off radar: Rajan
Oct 30, 2013, 09:35 PM ISTMumbai: Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan on Wednesday said India now is in a better position to face the US Federal Reserve's unwinding of its easy money policy whenever it takes place."We are in a
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RBI passes Re recovery as impact of delay Fed tapering
Oct 28, 2013, 10:50 PM ISTMumbai: The Reserve Bank today said the US Federal Reserve's decision to delay the unwinding of its monthly USD 85-billion of asset repurchase programme has brought in some stability to the rupee. “The Fed's decision
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Nifty sheds 44 pts as FMCG shares falter; all eyes on RBI
Oct 28, 2013, 10:43 PM ISTMumbai: Shares succumbed to heavy selling as investors turned cautious and booked profits in rate sensitive counters ahead of the RBI monetary policy, dragging the benchmark index Nifty down by 44 points on the National
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US tapering: FM wants regulators to take preventive steps
Oct 24, 2013, 11:54 PM ISTNew Delhi: Finance Minister P Chidambaram Thursday asked financial sector regulators, including RBI and SEBI, to take preventive steps to neutralise the impact of US Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus tapering that is likely early next
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US debt crisis can cause global financial turmoil: IMF
Oct 08, 2013, 11:48 PM ISTWASHINGTON: The IMF today warned that an imminent debt default by the US due to the government shutdown would result in disruptions in financial markets and could possibly trigger global economic turmoil.“Failure to lift the
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Investor wealth soars by Rs 1.83 lakh cr as stocks zoom
Sep 19, 2013, 09:59 PM ISTMUMBAI: As BSE benchmark index Sensex today witnessed a sharp surge of nearly 700 points on the back of US Federal Reserve's decision to stick to its stimulus package and strengthening rupee against the dollar,
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Rupee jumps 158 paise to 1-month high
Sep 19, 2013, 05:33 PM ISTMumabi: The rupee had settled just a paise lower at 63.38 against the dollar in Wednesday's trade.The rupee on Thursday zoomed by 158 paise to trade at over one-month high of 61.80 against the dollar
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U.S. Federal Reserve not ready to reduce stimulus
Sep 19, 2013, 09:57 AM ISTNew York: The U.S. Federal Reserve has decided against reducing its stimulus for the U.S. economy, saying it will maintain the pace of its bond purchases because it thinks the economy still needs the support.The