India’s largest insurer has likely invested Rs 48,000 crore in sovereign bonds, with more than 80 per cent in central debt.

RBI’s Covid-19 regulatory package was announced to mitigate the debt-servicing burden of stressed borrowers. But the moratorium has also ra...

The deficit in official imports might have been made up by smuggled gold to avoid the 10 per cent customs duty on bullion levied three year...

Bullion attracts import duty of 10% and most of the 29 states levy VAT at the rate of 1%, including cesses, stamp duty , etc works out to 1...

This means RBI-authorised banks, agencies like MMTC, STC, etc, can import the quantity required by the exporters and not be bound by wareho...

Sensex dropped 235 points, or 0.84%, to close at 27,866, below its 200-DMA of 27,983 and the psychological level of 28,000.

Private insurers said that it is an important turn in the interest rate cycle, which will boost both equity as well as debt market, and it ...

FIIs were net sellers of Indian equities worth Rs 204 cr on Monday, according to provisional exchange data.

Analysts said inflation is likely to head even lower with global crude prices easing and winter crop likely to push prices down.

In the FMCG space, Britannia rallied the most during this period with gains of 38.8%, followed by Emami with 35.6% gains and Nestle with 25...

Rate hike fear is back to haunt bond traders after Rajan struck a hawkish tone on future rate actions in view of inflation, turning sentime...

Insurance, being a capital intensive industry, should be in the priority list for hiking FDI cap. The industry may need capital of $12 bn b...

"The Indian growth story is very much intact. So, investors should put money in equity since no other asset class has yielded such high ret...

This figure may be tweaked when the new government presents the full budget for FY15 in June-July.

The Reserve Bank of India on November 22 replaced the 7.16% bond maturing in 2023 with a new 10-year series offering a coupon of 8.83% as t...

Bond prices fell and yields rose above the 8.90%-mark as investors felt that government borrowings could rise ahead of national poll.

Insurance companies' single company exposure limit including debt and equity has been raised to 20 per cent from existing 10 per cent.