
Mumbai: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday attacked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh accusing him of failing on the economic front to arrest the decline of Rupee vis-a-vis US Dollar. Addressing an award function in Mumbai on Monday evening, he also charged that late prime minister Indira Gandhi had announced during a campaign in the North East that if Congress was elected, the administration would be run as per the...

12:14 AM, Jun 05, 2012

New Delhi: Corporate India expects the rupee to weaken more, with a majority of 440 respondents in an ING Vysya survey of 220 organisations predicting the rupee could fall to as low as 58 to the dollar in the near-term. Of the respondents, 15 per cent did not rule out the rupee breaching below 60 to the dollar, ING Vysya says. The majority in the survey say RBI rules relaxing...

04:46 PM, Jun 04, 2012

Mumbai: The rupee rose on Monday to its highest against the dollar in a week, despite a steep sell-off in global risk assets, on the back of dollar sales by corporates and exporters, as well as unwinding of long-dollar positions by banks. The recovery comes after the rupee had hit a string of record lows against the dollar in the second half of May, with the latest on Thursday when...

03:05 PM, Jun 04, 2012

Mumbai: The rupee was marginally weaker on Monday, with the outlook negative as global sentiment, fuelled by weak US non-farm payrolls and Chinese non-manufacturing PMI, continued to hurt risk assets. At 9:04 am, the partially convertible rupee was at 55.58/60 per dollar, weaker than its 55.54/55 close on Friday. Europe's debt crisis has frayed nerves around the world for months. Now signs of weakness in the US jobs market and...

09:33 AM, Jun 04, 2012

New Delhi: It had been another brutal day for the rupee on the foreign exchanges as India's economic crisis escalated and, travelling home from a visit to Myanmar last week, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh summoned journalists on his plane for a briefing. The one statement he had prepared for the media that night, however, concerned allegations of corruption levelled against him and his cabinet ministers - not the economy. Quizzed...

09:02 AM, Jun 04, 2012

The Prime Minister's Chief Economic Advisor Dr C Rangarajan has admitted that a hike in diesel and LPG prices is imminent despite a steep hike in petrol prices last week. While speaking to Karan Thapar on 'Devil's Advocate', Dr Rangarajan said the government can soften the blow but fuel price hike is the need of the hour to contain the fiscal deficit. Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to the Devil's...

12:01 PM, Jun 03, 2012

New Delhi: Gold prices on Saturday jumped sharply up to Rs 1,095 per 10 gram crossing the Rs 30,000 per 10 gram level, its all-time high, on account of rise in global prices of precious metal and weakening rupee. The maximum jump in prices was seen in Chennai, where gold became costlier by Rs 1,095 at Rs 30,380 per 10 gram, followed by Delhi with a again of Rs 960...

08:33 PM, Jun 02, 2012

Kochi: With the rupee continuing with its free fall, RBI on Friday said it was doing everything it can to stabilise the exchange rate to reduce volatility of the currency. "... That has been our approach from the time this (depreciation) started and we will continue it," RBI Deputy Governor Subir Gokarn told reporters here on the sidelines of a function. He, however, declined to make any projections, saying "there...

01:30 AM, Jun 02, 2012

Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cannot arrest the rupee's decline if it is caused by weak fundamentals or global factors, but can only take more calibrated steps in the forex market in such a scenario, top official said on Friday. "If the rupee fall is due to fundamental weakness of the economy, or due to global factors, then the RBI cannot support it," RBI Deputy Governor KC Chakrabarty...

04:25 PM, Jun 01, 2012

Mumbai: The rupee recovered from a weak open to gain to above 56 to the dollar on Friday, though broader sentiment was weak as the euro fell to a 2-year low, reflecting the worsening euro zone debt crisis and disappointing Chinese manufacturing data. At 9:10 am the partially convertible rupee was at 55.99/01 per dollar, stronger than its 56.08/09 close on Thursday. ...

09:27 AM, Jun 01, 2012

Mumbai: After being down in the dumps for the better part of day, Indian equities staged a smart late trade recovery on hopes of a RBI rate cut to revive the sagging economy. Also, gains in European shares aided the recovery. The country's economic growth slumped in the January-March quarter to a nine-year low of 5.3 per cent as the manufacturing sector contracted and a fall in the rupee to...

09:41 AM, May 31, 2012

Mumbai: The rupee fell to a record low on Thursday and is headed to its worst month in half a year as global risk aversion deepened, while caution prevailed ahead of economic data that is expected to show a further slowdown in growth. Domestic bond yields also retreated, while stocks fell, on the last day of a rough month for Indian markets, as the weak sentiment from the euro zone...

09:21 AM, May 31, 2012

Mumbai: The Indian market ended Wednesday' trade on a pessimist note as traders chose to sit on the sidelines ahead of the F&O expiry and Q4 GDP numbers slated for a release on Thursday. European markets slipped too after euro fell to its record low in 23 months as investors worried over Spain's banking problems. After more credit ratings downgrades of Spain and news of European Central bank rejecting Spains...

09:39 AM, May 30, 2012

Mumbai: Rupee was at day's low of 56.20 from 55.67/68 last close as traders continue to play on euro weakness, stock losses. Dealer with private bank says rupee may move toward life low of 56.40 in session, but unlikely to breach. The RBI has not been spotted in recent sessions, with traders saying the fall in rupee over past two sessions has been orderly, with exporter selling also seen. BSE...

09:26 AM, May 30, 2012

Mumbai: It was a dull session for the markets as investors chose to remain cautious ahead of the upcoming F&O expiry and Q4 GDP data numbers on Thursday. The Sensex shuts shop at 16438.58 up 21.74 points or 0.13 per cent and the Nifty closed at 4990.10 up 4.45 points or 0.09 per cent. The breadth of the market was positive. About 1425 shares advanced, 1255 shares declined, and 743...

09:13 AM, May 29, 2012