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Mahendra Kumar Jajoo, Head-Fixed Income, Mirae Asset Investment, says the rupee is currently valued at 87-87.5 which he considers fair value and may reach new lows, aligning with other currencies. Downward pressure is due to selling by foreign institutional investors (FIIs). However, as March approaches, we expect the Reserve Bank to implement measures in its monetary policy to help banks attract more foreign currency deposits, including the FCNR(B) scheme and eased criteria for external commercial borrowing (ECB). Where do you see the rupee headed because it has been weakening further. It touched an all-time low on Wednesday. Mahendra Kumar Jajoo: After the depreciation in the last one month, rupee is now largely in line with the peers in the rest of the global markets. Currencies like Brazilian Real or Mexican Peso have been depreciating by about 15% to 20% in the last one year. Rupee on a year-to-year basis is just down about 5%. So, there was a period in October, November when the rupee was outperforming all the other major currencies and I think that correction has now been done.

Hexaware Technologies will launch its Rs 8,750-crore initial public offering (IPO) on February 12, with a price band of Rs 674-708 per share. The IPO is a pure Offer for Sale (OFS), with promoter Carlyle offloading its stake. Post-IPO, Carlyle's stake will drop to 74.1% from the current 95%.

Gold prices inched higher on Thursday to hover near an all-time high hit in the last session, as Sino-U.S. tariff war concerns boosted safe-haven demand, while investors awaited the payrolls data for clues about the health of the world's largest economy.

Federal Reserve officials on Wednesday pointed to the large policy uncertainty around tariffs and other issues arising from the early days of President Donald Trump's administration as among the top challenges in figuring out where to take U.S. monetary policy in the months ahead. Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee warned that ignoring the potential inflationary impact of tariffs would be a mistake, whereas Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin said it remains impossible at this early stage to know where cost increases from any tariffs might be absorbed or passed along to consumers. The views of the two U.S. central bankers were emblematic of the cautious approach Fed officials are angling to take in deciding whether to resume interest rate cuts later this year or continue to keep them on hold. The Fed left its benchmark interest rate unchanged last week in the 4.25%-4.50% range after cutting it at three straight meetings to close out 2024. The U.S. economy is strong, the labor market is «plausibly» at full employment, and inflation has come down and is approaching the Fed's 2% goal, Goolsbee said in remarks prepared for delivery to the Chicago Fed's annual auto symposium in Detroit.

DeepSeek's access to work computers, following a request from the country's data watchdog for the Chinese AI startup to clarify how it manages user information.

The bank said 51% of its 4,233 respondents named inflation and tariffs together as the top potential developments likely to dominate markets this year. Last year, inflation was also a top concern, but only for 27% of the interviewees.

Alphabet earnings and weighed the prospect of future interest rate cuts from the U.S. Federal Reserve. Google-parent Alphabet dropped 7.3% after posting downbeat cloud revenue growth on Tuesday and earmarking a higher-than-expected $75 billion investment for its AI buildout this year.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India's top stock exchange is on the watchout for fresh measures from the stock market regulator to cool the derivatives frenzy, even as a slew of recent measures begin to take effect. Average daily traded volume (ADTV) in NSE's equity futures segment fell 15% to ₹1,71,825 crore, an NSE presentation for the December quarter showed.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Nifty 50, India's benchmark index, closed 43 points lower at 23,772.05 and snapped its two-day gaining streak. Taking cues from the global markets, the index started the session with a muted opening at 23,801.75 and continued to trade in a broad range of 23,680–23,810 to close near the day’s low.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: The ministries of commerce and agriculture are working on securing a globally accepted HSN (harmonized system of nomenclature) code for foxnuts to boost exports of the popular aquatic crop, two people aware of the matter told Mint. Makhana, as it is called in India, has gained global recognition for its nutritional value, but is currently exported as a “dry fruit", making it difficult for authorities to accurately track exports.

stock market downturn. On the contrary, they have trimmed their stakes further since October, continuing their selling spree from most of the earlier part of 2024. Since October 1, when the market began declining, promoters of nearly 120 mid- and small-cap companies have sold shares worth ₹7,000 crore.

Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff for policy, breaks down President Donald Trump's tariffs on ‘Kudlow.’

Federal Reserve to opt to hold interest rates steady at 4.25% to 4.5% as it did in its latest policy meeting on January 29. But, US president Donald Trump was not very happy with Fed Chair Jerome Powell's decision, as per a report.

Donald Trump’s tariffs against China may be a precursor to a trade deal between the two countries. The Trump administration’s position on artificial intelligence and semiconductor export controls will be key to any negotiations with China.

Liberal leadership contenders Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland want Canada to look beyond the United States to bolster its roster of trade partners amid ongoing tariff threats from President Donald Trump.

Alphabet Inc.'s Google faces new charges of economic espionage by the US Justice Department for allegedly stealing trade secrets to boost China's AI industry. Linwei Ding, who was indicted in March, now faces seven counts of economic espionage along with seven counts of theft of trade secrets under a new indictment announced Tuesday.

Temu and fast-fashion retailer Shein will be liable for the sale of unsafe and dangerous products on their platforms, the European Commission said on Wednesday, as part of a crackdown against a flood of cheap e-commerce imports into the European Union.

Maurice Obstfeld, former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. Speaking to Srijana Mitra Das, he discusses burgeoning tariffs — and their effects on prosperity:

Tesla sales plunged in Germany last month, official data showed Wednesday, after billionaire owner Elon Musk waded into the country's election campaign by vocally backing the far right. Shares of the company were trading 2.61% down at $381.99 at 11.38 am on Nasdaq.

Crossmark Global Investments CEO and CIO Bob Doll unpacks the state of the U.S. economy on 'Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street.'