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Indian start-ups money for little: Here's a look at ecosystem's finances

Funding raised by start-ups in H1 2023 was $5.4 billion, down 71.5 per cent compared to $19 billion raised in H1 2022

In race for market connectivity, UK-India ties offer point of difference

Their partnership can turbo charge the development of India's financial markets

Standard Chartered to trim more than 100 roles as part of cost cuts

"It is part of normal business activity to review our role requirements on an ongoing basis across the bank, to ensure that we remain effective in delivering our business strategy"

China financial data providers stop sharing key corporate information

Investors operating in China are facing a more challenging environment despite Beijing's push to improve ties globally

Safety in the storm

As the requirement for capital import into India at present is low, the global tornado has modest implications for us

The accidents have started

The failure of SVB was due to idiosyncratic reasons, but shows how higher rates can expose fault lines in unforeseen places

The Adani affair

Doubts about India's corporate governance norms and integrity of its financial markets?

Regulatory mishaps seem to dog the Indian financial markets permanently

One way out is to give constitutional status to regulatory agencies with systemic importance, like in the case of CAG, and CEC

Short selling in US and India

With the right policy, income from short selling Adani Group stocks and bonds could have accrued to Indians rather than the Americans

Indian financial markets remain well-regulated: FM Nirmala Sitharaman

FM says banking system at comfortable level as bad loans hit new lows

Focus on finance

Budget measures will strengthen financial markets

Indian economy resilient amid global shocks: RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das

Inflation is forecast to rise to 8.8 per cent in 2022, with both headline and core inflation staying well above targets in AEs and EMDEs, the report noted

What is a Santa Claus rally?

Year 2022 was hard on financial markets across the world. But markets usually rally on the last 5 trading days of the year. This is called the Santa Claus rally. Find out more about Santa Claus rally

Charging bulls or grappling bears? Stocks & sectors to buy and sell in 2023

Here's how leading brokerages and research houses expect 2023 to play out for the equity markets, and their sector preferences

ESMA withdraws recognition granted to Indian clearing corporations

Move on account of lack of cooperation arrangements between the EU regulator and Indian authorities

Use dollar-denominated forex reserves wisely, IMF urges emerging economies

Asks these economies to reinstate swap lines with advanced economy central banks

Rupee appreciates 31 paise to 81.51 against US dollar in early trade

The rupee strengthened by 31 paise to 81.51 against the US dollar in early trade on Tuesday, tracking weakness in the greenback in overseas markets and a rally in domestic equities. However, rising crude price in the international market restricted the rupee, forex traders said. At the interbank foreign exchange, the local currency opened sharply up at 81.66 against the dollar, then gained further ground to 81.51, showing a gain of 31 paise over its previous close. The rupee settled 42 paise lower at 81.82 against the dollar on Monday. In the domestic equity market, the 30-share BSE Sensex was trading 1,006.59 points or 1.77 per cent higher at 57,795.40, and the broader NSE Nifty climbed 306.40 points or 1.81 per cent to 17,193.75. Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback's strength against a basket of six currencies, slipped 0.14 per cent to 111.58. Brent crude futures, the global oil benchmark, rose 0.46 per cent to USD 89.27 per barrel. Foreign institutional ..

Statsguru: Six charts explain rough ride in the financial markets

India's currency has done relatively better than other major emerging markets, barring Russia

Narrowing bond yields signal liquidity squeeze in markets, shows data

Spread between 10-yr G-sec and 2-yr bond yields narrows to 38-mth low

Asian shares rise by 0.4% as hopes for audit deal boost Chinese tech

Asian shares rose on Friday, buoyed by news of possible progress for China and the United States to hammer out an audit deal, while traders anxiously awaited a speech from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome