Call rate closes at highest since October 2019 as liquidity tightens
India needs a vibrant bond market to fuel its growth ambitions but financial repression is keeping investors and issuers away
Stocks of firms in Gautam Adani's business empire -- spanning ports to gas distribution and coal mining -- have jumped in part on soaring energy prices
RBI asked for mkt views on BoP, impact of 75-bps rate hike by US Fed
India may keep its market borrowing plan for the financial year intact, with a recent uptick in revenues likely to lead to a discussion on whether the target can be reduced
Foreign investors held a smaller share of government securities as of September than they did in March
Recent rally in bonds despite US bond selloff signals optimism on global index inclusion
Their spread over G-Secs of comparable maturity have also declined compared to historical averages
Even though the government is yet to make up its mind on inclusion of G-Secs (Government Securities) in global bond indices, Wall Street brokerage Morgan Stanley expects indices major JP Morgan to make an announcement in this regard as early as next week. On Monday finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman told an industry gathering that the 2020 budget proposal on allowing bond inclusion in international indices could not move forward as the fund flows did not meet the desired levels, due to many reasons including the Covid pandemic. Without offering any details like a timeline or the tax and stamp duty breaks that investors were demanding, Sitharaman said: "I don't know whether we're holding it back or not. I think global situation changed a lot since I made that statement in the 2020 budget. "Global fund flows have not been as big as we wanted it to be primarily due to other reasons. So it'll come to its natural, logical conclusion soon." According to the RBI data, G-Secs outstanding
As a result, the yield 10-year US government bond is down 14 per cent in the last seven weeks while the S&P 500 up 11.3 per cent in the period
Global funds offloaded a net $40 billion of equities across seven regional markets last quarter, exceeding any three-month period characterised by systemic stresses since 2007
Overseas investors reduced holdings of Chinese bonds for a fourth consecutive month in May, as diverging monetary policies kept Chinese yields pinned below their US counterparts
Companies, including HDFC, Tata Capital Financial Services, LIC Housing Finance and Haldia Petrochem raised over Rs 6,000 crore on Wednesday
The equity and the bond market are joined at the hip through respective yields on both instruments
The money raised in 2021 is 58.1% higher than $4.3 billion raised in 2017. A lower share would indicate that other countries have been making more use of the mechanism
The rating agency's assessment showed the yield on benchmark 10-year government bonds rose 66 basis points in FY22 to close at 6.84 per cent from 6.18 per cent at the end of March 2021
The March 21-31 survey captured this defensive strategy many fund managers adopted after the Russia-Ukraine war broke out
A rally in the stock market tends to raise bond yields as money moves from the relative safer investment bet to riskier equity stock markets
A selloff in India's bond markets, including its corporate debt, is gathering pace as oil prices extended their rally above $110 a barrel after Russia invaded Ukraine
The RBI is also gauging the extent of damage to the Indian banking sector amid the Ukraine crisis. More on this and other stories in our top headlines this morning.