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Bitcoin spot ETFs saw record monthly volume in March, tripling numbers from the previous two months with a whopping $111 billion traded.

₹1.21 lakh crore in India’s debt market during the financial year 2023-2024, the highest yearly inflow in more than nine financial years. As per the data on National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL), FPIs’ net investment in the country’s debt markets stood at ₹121,059 crore for FY24. This was the highest FPI inflow in the debt market since FY 2014-15, when they infused ₹130,302 crore.

Zerodha's CEO Nithin Kamath today shared insights on the debate between investing in active or passive funds. Kamath, speaking on X, said «It's getting increasingly harder for active funds to outperform their benchmarks.» «It's a no-brainer to opt for low-cost index funds as the core of your portfolio. You can complement that with other funds, but the core should be passive funds,» Kamath said on X (formerly Twitter).

₹664 crore between April 2019 and January 2024. Electoral bond donors & beneficiaries: Revealing the links The second-biggest donor to BJP is Reliance-linked Qwik Supply Chain. As per the data available on EC's website, the Reliance-linked company donated ₹395 crore to the saffron party.

grown-ups, the joys of watching cartoons are often overlooked or dismissed as childish. But delving into the world of animated entertainment offers a shipload of pleasures that transcend age boundaries. For starters, cartoons provide the ultimate escape from realism. They offer club entry into whimsy where literally anything is possible and imagination is queen. Moreover, cartoons often contain sophisticated humour and biting wit that hyper-sensitive adults — a growing breed these days — won't suspect in a 'children's genre'. Which is why so many animated shows incorporate satire, parody and social commentary otherwise verboten in 'real actors' films and shows. This humour-intelligence blend appeals to grown-up viewers who crave entertainment with substance — and an edge.

James Bond, British tabloid The Sun has set the internet ablaze with rumors of Aaron Taylor-Johnson stepping into the iconic role. The Kick-Ass star reportedly stands on the brink of signing a deal to embody cinema's legendary secret agent.

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The largest industrial wood pellet supplier in the world has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

The Xtrackers India Government Bond UCITS ETF total expense ratio has fallen from 0.38% to 0.33%, while the Xtrackers MSCI India Swap UCITS ETF's is now 0.19% from 0.75%. DWS lowers fees for 31 ETFs and a gold ETC The former ETF physically acquires the components of the JP Morgan India Government Fully Accessible Route Bonds index, which offers exposure to fixed-interest Indian government bonds. Tracking the MSCI India index, the latter ETF comprises the largest companies in the Indian equity market based on market capitalisation. The fund models the index synthetically through a s...

sovereign debt nears inclusion in global bond indices, a diverse pool of international investors, ranging from long-term institutional funds in Japan, S Korea and Taiwan to exchange-traded funds in Europe, are setting their sights on the domestic bond market. «We have witnessed an influx of clients coming to India over the last few months. Besides the major financial hubs, clients from other countries like Japan, Korea and Taiwan have also expressed significant interest,» said Anita Mishra, Head of Markets and Securities Services, HSBC India.

The benchmark 10-year Indian bond yield ended at 7.0312%, lower than its previous close of 7.0548%. Indian financial markets will be closed on Friday for a local holiday.

DSP Mutual Fund on Thursday announced the launch ofDSP US Treasury Fund of Fund, an open-ended fund-of-funds scheme investing in units of ETFs and/or funds focused on US Treasury Bonds. The new fund offer or NFO of the scheme is open for subscription and will close on March 13. The scheme will offer investors an opportunity to benefit from Fed interest rate policies by investing in US Treasuries. More than 95% of the fund's assets will be invested in the money market, floating rate, short, medium and long-duration funds.

Market Local Currency Government Index, making it the latest global index to incorporate local sovereign debt. It also paves the way for Indian debt to potentially become part of a considerably larger Bloomberg index that encompasses trillions of dollars of debt. «This step for our EM local index is very significant and will really allow investors to understand the ecosystem around Indian government bonds. Assuming India maintains its investment-grade status, we will continue to keep India on review for the (Bloomberg) Global Aggregate Index,» Nick Gendron, global head, fixed income index product, Bloomberg Index Services, told ET in a video interview. «The global aggregate is an index that is intended to measure the entirety of the investment-grade market. It's managing over $60 trillion in debt. We will stay close to our clients as to their experiences in investing in India and we will keep that dialogue open.»

China’s economic growth target for this year is around 5%, in line with last year’s performance despite forecasts for a slowdown

Edited excerpts from the interview: Currently, my investment portfolio is primarily focused on equity and debt instruments. I don’t hold any gold or real estate investments at the moment. Approximately 75% of my portfolio is allocated to equity, while the remaining 25% is diversified in arbitrage funds.

On a year-on-year basis, the value of such investments rose 26 per cent from USD 584 billion in December 2022.

According to the Treasury, this issuance will raise new cash from private investors of approximately $15.9bn

Tim Cockerill (pictured) brings more than 35 years' experience, joining Verso from Rowan Dartington, where he spent 12 years as investment director.

stocks, with investors expecting the yuan and government bonds to underperform in a year when the Federal Reserve's dovish pivot is set to buoy emerging markets. Bearish sentiment toward China has intensified as the latest data confirmed the world's second largest economy remains in the doldrums. While the gloom adds impetus for the People's Bank of China to lower interest rates, investors say the monetary authority has less room to cut than its major global peers, whose borrowing costs are now at multi-year highs.

Manta Pacific has moved past Base to become the fourth largest layer 2 scaling solution in the market. The total value locked (TVL) of the network soared past $840 million.

High interest rates, an invitation: After a hike of 250 basis points over 2022-23, and as both wholesale and consumer inflation seem to be under control now, the RBI has paused rate hikes leaving the repo rates at 6.5%. The RBI last hiked the repo rate in February 2023. In June 2022, the 10-year g-sec hit a closing high of 7.55%, before tapering off.