US & Indian policy rates have seen similar trajectory. With Fed’s rate cuts, difference between interest rates in India & US may widen, leading to foreign capital inflow & stronger Rupee.
A Bank for International Settlements survey shows that, compared to last yr, world economies seems more likely to issue Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in medium term than short term.
Gold’s ability to hold value in times of political and economic uncertainty makes it a favoured asset in central bank reserves. It is considered a long-term hedge against inflation.
Some of the world’s major central banks–such as US Federal Reserve & European Central Bank–are likely to avoid drama in their last set of meetings for 2023.
Several countries are calling for trade to be carried out in currencies besides the US dollar. But a survey of central bank currency managers shows the shift will be a slow affair.
At ThePrint ‘Off The Cuff’, IMF Executive Director KV Subramanian tells Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta & Deputy Editor TCA Sharad Raghavan the missing link between credit control & policy rates.
The Federal Reserve is anticipated to raise interest rates by 75 basis points Wednesday, just weeks after Chair Jerome Powell & his staff projected a half-percentage-point increase.
The Ukraine war has exposed the imbalance in the global financial system run primarily by the West. When the West decides the course of a currency, others must take it as given.
The Reserve Bank of India’s move last week to keep the rates unchanged surprised markets, which had expected the bank to raise them to begin policy normalization after Covid.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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