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UBS still examining the risk of misstatement in Credit Suisse's books

A "material weakness" in how Credit Suisse reported its numbers could signal a significant misstatement in the financial statements

Top 10 companies command a third of India's market capitalisation

According to experts, if a company or sector dominates the market, there is a risk that the market could collapse if anything goes wrong with the sector or the company

RIL-Disney 'game-changing' deal gets a thumbs-up from analysts

The development will be negative for other players such as Zee, analysts said, who will now have to compete with a much larger entity

Equity investors make best returns when interest rates decline: UBS

Equities have dominated bonds, while bonds have outperformed treasury bills

Gautam Chhaochharia appointed as UBS's head of global markets in India

Chhaochharia began his stint at UBS as an analyst covering midcaps and became the head of research in 2013

Sensex at 86,000; Nifty at 21,800: How foreign brokerages see mkts in 2024

The upcoming general elections in April/May 2024 are expected to add volatility to the Indian markets, keeping investors on their toes

UBS upgrades India's FY24 real GDP growth estimate marginally to 6.3%

Foreign brokerage UBS on Wednesday upgraded its FY24 real GDP growth estimate marginally to 6.3 per cent. The brokerage's chief India economist Tanvee Gupta Jain said domestic economic activities are fairing better than expected, but added that managing the macro risks and next year's General Elections are the key factors to watch out for. "We expect growth momentum in the near term to get support from higher household spending during the ongoing festive season, buoyant credit growth and reallocation of government spending towards pro-rural pro-social schemes ahead of a tight election calendar, she said. Jain said she's upping her expectations despite slower global growth but added that the revised estimate is lower than the 6.4 per cent consensus. It can be noted that the Reserve Bank has estimated growth to come at 6.5 per cent for FY24, while Governor Shaktikanta Das recently said that the number for the July-September 2023 period will surprise on the upside. Jain said going ..

UBS, Credit Suisse see growing probe over alleged Russian sanctions evasion

The probe is still at an early stage and may not result in charges or a settlement, the people said

UBS Group seeks to hire several private bankers to serve India's rich

UBS, which exited the private-wealth market in India almost a decade ago, is among global firms from HSBC Holdings Plc to Julius Baer Group Ltd. taking increased bets there

Credit Suisse's Mihir Doshi to head combined UBS India business

Doshi's appointment would signal continuity and assuage concerns among Credit Suisse employees in the country regarding changes that are likely to be made post-takeover, including redundancies

After UBS merger, Credit Suisse planning layoffs in India back offices

Credit Suisse's equity strategists Neelkanth Mishra and Ashish Gupta recently quit and joined the Axis Bank group. These positions are likely to be filled by USB analysts

UBS needs RBI approval to operate Credit Suisse as a bank in India

This is because UBS had surrendered its bank licence about a decade back after the banking regulator denied its request to offer wealth management services

Global mkts fully pricing in Fed hike to 5.5%; Indian equities at risk: UBS

India, according to them, is among the more sensitive markets to US rates, and demonstrates the most sensitivity to local rates given higher influence of domestic flows into the market

India's FY24 GDP growth to slow down to 5.5%, says UBS India report

India's GDP growth will slow down to 5.5 per cent in FY24 from the 6.9 per cent expected in the current fiscal 2022-23, a Swiss brokerage said on Wednesday. The slowdown was attributed to slowing global growth and tightening of monetary policies in the report by economists at UBS India. It said India will be among the "lesser affected economies" in the world, but made it clear that the world's fifth largest economy is not immune from global headwinds. "Factoring in the delayed impact of monetary tightening on domestic demand, we continue to expect India's growth to remain below consensus in FY24. In our base case, we expect India's real GDP growth to slow from 6.9 per cent in FY23 to 5.5 per cent in FY24 before settling at the long-run average of 6 per cent in FY25," the report said. Responding to high domestic inflation and rate hikes by global central banks, the RBI has already hiked the policy rate by 1.90 per cent since May this year and is only expected to hike more, which can

UBS sees RBI delivering 25-30 bps rate hike this week, pausing after Oct

The Reserve Bank will deliver two more rate increases with the first of 25-30 bps later this week, and then pause for data-prints on domestic inflation and the US economy, says a foreign brokerage. The US economy is widely feared to be headed towards a recession this year having already contracted by 0.9 per cent in the June quarter and 1.6 per cent in the previous. If an economy contracts for three consecutive quarters, then it is considered that economy is in recession. On the domestic front, the consensus view is that the economy will continue to face headwinds from multiple fronts -- rising current account deficit (CAD), falling balance of payments, high inflation and rupee depreciation which has already plumbed the 80 mark against the greenback. The RBI's rate-setting panel MPC will announce the second bimonthly policy review on Friday and the market has already priced-in a third rate hike given the run-away inflation, which is has already been hovering over 7 per cent for the

No relief for markets as Fed gets aggressive to tame inflation: Chris Wood

The latest consumer inflation (CPI) print in the US for June came in at 9.1 per cent - the highest reading since 1981, and surpassed most analysts' expectations, who had pegged this at 8.8 per cent

India is among the least favoured markets in Asia: Sunil Tirumalai of UBS

As liquidity starts drying up, banks rates start rising and market returns struggle, we expect some level of softness in household market allocations, he said

Will the RBI's efforts to tame inflation, manage growth fail? UBS thinks so

While the RBI's monetary policy committee kept rates steady in its recent policy review in April, UBS expects the Indian central bank to hike rates starting June 2022

UBS slashes FY22 GDP forecast to 9.1%; ups projection for FY23 to 8.2%

Swiss brokerage UBS Securities has revised downwards its India's growth forecast for the current financial year to 9.1% from 9.5% earlier

UBS clarifies it remains committed to India as advisory services move

Bloomberg on Wednesday reported that UBS planned to shut its global banking office in India and move investment banking coverage for the country offshore