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«Base case scenario getting worked out that the first half of the next financial year, earnings should start bottoming out, reflecting in probably the spread narrowing as well,» says Mayuresh Joshi, Head Equity, Marketsmith India. The question which we are debating, deliberating, and discussing is that do we have a durable trading bottom in place for the market now and it will take a lot of global bad news or local events to break that recent low. Mayuresh Joshi: We have been analysing a lot of aspects, including how the gap between the bond yields and the earnings yields have probably panned out over the last 10 to 15 years and in terms of this narrowing of spreads, we are below the long term averages.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The 10-year Indian bond yield, once trading at 12-13% in the late 90s, has now dropped from its 5-year high of around 7.5% to 6.7% as of February-end 2025. With the start of the interest rate cut cycle, yields are expected to fall further.

NPCI) is working to phase out ‘collect calls’ for merchant payments as part of the government’s efforts to combat online frauds via the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), two bankers familiar with the matter said. A collect call is a ‘pull’ transaction, where a merchant initiates a payment request to the customer. Given that merchants have a higher degree of control over these, there is a more chance of fraud. Authorities are instead encouraging ‘push’ transactions, where the customer initiates the payment by scanning a QR code or through other means.

The recent stock market slump in the US has raised concerns about President Donald Trump's economic policies such as tariffs, immigration crackdowns and federal budget cuts. Will these policies eventually benefit the market and investors?

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green card holders are increasingly facing secondary inspections and overnight detentions by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at American airports. According to TOI's Lubna Kably, immigration attorneys have reported a growing trend of CBP officials questioning elderly Indians who spend winter months in India and pressuring them to voluntarily surrender their green cards by signing Form I-407. Under the US Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), a lawful permanent resident (LPR), or green card holder, returning to the US after an absence of more than 180 days is treated as seeking «re-admission» and becomes subject to grounds of inadmissibility. Although green card abandonment is typically considered when someone stays outside the US for more than a year, attorneys are now seeing increased scrutiny even for shorter absences. Ashwin Sharma, an immigration attorney based in Florida, said, “I have personally handled cases recently where the CBP has targeted elderly Indian green card holders, particularly grandparents who happen to have spent a bit longer outside the US, and pressured them to sign Form I-407 to ‘voluntarily’ surrender their lawful permanent resident status (green card). And the moment they have tried to push back, they have been met with threats of detention or ‘removal’ by the CBP officers who have been emboldened by Trump to see themselves as judge, jury, and executioner.”

Donald Trump's approval rating has reached 47%, equaling his best-ever mark as president, according to the latest NBC News poll. However, a 51% majority still disapproves of his performance. Three months after he returned to the Oval Office, Trump hit the highest approval rating he's ever had as commander-in chief. More Americans say the country is on the right track than at any point since 2004, according to a new poll. That’s the good news, according to an NBC News Poll released Sunday. ALSO READ: 'Hell will rain down': Trump launches large-scale strikes on Yemen's Houthis, issues blistering war threat

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. THE BALL, so America’s secretary of state said on March 11th, is back in Vladimir Putin’s court. Ukraine had just agreed at talks in Jeddah to an American plan for a month-long ceasefire, and in return America has already restarted the flow of weapons and information that Donald Trump cut off following his spectacular Oval Office clash with Volodymyr Zelensky 11 days earlier.

Kripa Upadhyay, a Seattle-based immigration attorney, told TOI's Lubna Kably, “As heartless as this may seem, foreign nationals (especially those needing renewal of H-1B or F-1 visa stamps) really need to think twice about leaving the US right now.” The US Department of State recently changed eligibility requirements for interview waiver or «dropbox» appointments. Earlier, anyone who had been issued a non-immigrant visa (except B visitor visas) could apply for a waiver if their visa expired within 48 months. Now, dropbox is limited only to applicants renewing the same category of visa that expired within the last 12 months.

«If you look at the biggest gainer, the crude prices which has cooled off and inflation below sub-4, RBI's interventions what we have seen, so all these things are just getting a base for our markets to move up and as I said, it will be a stock pickers and the stock specific rather than the entire market selling into it,» says Rahul Shah, MOFSL. What is it that your strategy is in this market? Time to buy yet? Rahul Shah: What we have seen in last five-six months after a steep correction, because stock-wise there is a lot of correction other than the indices. So, after three good years, market is showing some kind of cool-off or maybe a base which is getting created before it takes off.

Labour government will on Monday set out details of how it plans to slash red tape to boost business, as it struggles to deliver growth nine months after winning power. Chancellor Rachel Reeves' shake-up comes after Prime Minister Keir Starmer took aim at the nation's «flabby state», sparking anger from unions who called on him to avoid the «incendiary rhetoric» of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) in the US. The finance ministry said regulators would be summoned to the prime minister's Downing Street office on Monday to hear Reeves announce her «action plan to deliver on the pledge to cut the administrative cost of regulation on business by a quarter». The «radical» plan would cut «costly red tape» such as the «hundreds of pages of guidance on protecting bat habitats which goes far beyond legal requirements», said a statement, referring to the £100 million ($130 million) spent on a bat tunnel by the company building Britain's new high-speed HS2 train line. The tunnel has become a lightning rod for criticism of the planning system, with the Prime Minister describing it as «absurd».

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Crisil's chief executive Amish Mehta said that the rating firm's work depends on the findings of the auditor, who has greater access to information and the disclosures made by rated companies. Speaking to ET, he also pointed out, without naming any borrower, that a sharp stock price movement does not mean they have to put out statements on the rated issue, but if a 'material event' is triggered, Crisil has consistently issued statements in seven days. Edited excerpts: What are the additional steps Crisil has taken to ensure the data provided by rated companies are genuine and authentic? First and foremost, we are not forensic accountants. The way we carry out our business is, we have a contractual arrangement with the issuer to rate based on the information they have furnished to us, which is essentially audited, and management interaction. Separately, we try to triangulate that with publicly available information, benchmarks with peers, talk to bankers, and look at GST data.

Venezuelan gang to be imprisoned in El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele said Sunday, after US counterpart Donald Trump invoked wartime authorities to expel migrants. Trump signed an order invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 on Friday, but it was not publicly announced until Saturday. The wartime authority allows a president to detain or deport citizens of an enemy nation, but has been invoked only three times before during major international conflicts. Civil rights groups sued to block the order, with a federal judge Saturday granting a temporary suspension of the order, apparently as planes were already headed to El Salvador. «Today, the first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our country,» Bukele said on X. Bukele, in a meeting last month with US secretary of state Marco Rubio, had offered to house prisoners from the US in his country. He said in his post that the alleged gang members had been sent to the country's maximum security Terrorism Confinement Center. The detention and expulsion order will apply to all Venezuelan Tren de Aragua members who are over 14 and not naturalized US citizens or lawful permanent residents.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Trump administration is seeking to deport Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student arrested last week after his participation in pro-Palestinian demonstrations, under a seldom-used provision of immigration law. Khalil, a 30-year-old lawful permanent resident, is awaiting his fate in a federal Louisiana immigration detention facility after being arrested in New York on Saturday.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Union Budget for 2024-25 rightly focused on promoting inclusive growth and enabling employment-led development in India. With a goal of assisting the poor and vulnerable groups, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed a scheme for the socioeconomic upliftment of Indian workers as the government tries to help them raise their incomes and attain sustainable livelihoods for a better quality of life.

Small-cap equities delivered outsized returns in 2023 and 2024, with the Nifty Smallcap 100 Index up 56% and 24% respectively, outperforming both the Nifty Midcap 100 Index (2023: 47% and 2024: 24%) and the Nifty 50 Index (2023: 24% and 2024: 9%). However, since hitting all-time highs in late Sep’24, the trend has reversed with small-cap equities slipping into a bear market, commonly defined as a 20% drop from peak to trough, with the Nifty Smallcap 100 index down 25%. The Nifty Midcap 100 Index and the Nifty 50 Index have seen a 21% and 16% drop respectively from their Sep '24 all-time highs.

Wherever the Congress comes to power, it tries to strangle the basic spirit of the Constitution, he alleged. The Siddaramaiah government has given its nod for amending the Karnataka Transparency in Public Procurement (KTPP) Act to provide four per cent reservation in government tenders to Muslim contractors. Sai said, «The decision is a well-planned conspiracy of the Congress to spread animosity in the society. The courts have already declared religion-based reservation unconstitutional, so this decision too will not stand before judicial review. The Congress is playing with the rights of the deprived sections just for vote bank politics.» The injustice to tribals, Dalits and deprived sections of the society will not be tolerated, the BJP leader said.