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Japanese shares closed higher on Thursday, as investors continued to hunt for beaten-down technology stocks, with sentiment underpinned by Wall Street's overnight gains. The Nikkei share average rose 1.47% to close at 26,490.53 and the…

Wall Street put a seesaw day behind it to close higher on Wednesday, as investors digested new clues on the U.S. central bank's approach to rate policy and its inflation fight detailed in the minutes from the latest Federal Reserve…

Federal Reserve officials agreed last month that interest rates may need to keep rising for longer to prevent higher inflation from becoming entrenched, even if that slowed the US economy. Policy makers backed raising rates at their next…

Wall Street's main indexes were subdued at the open on Wednesday as investors awaited minutes from the Federal Reserve's meeting last month for clues on the health of the economy and the pace of interest rate hikes to combat high…

The S&P 500 ended slightly higher on Tuesday as investors kept their focus on the growth trajectory of the U.S. economy, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq closed higher while the Dow slipped. U.S. stocks have been under relentless selling…

The current account deficit could widen further to 3.3% in FY23 from 1.2% in the previous fiscal amid concerns over its impact on an already depreciating rupee, Nomura said in a report. The rupee could sink to a level of 82 against the…

If history is to go by, the chances of the BSE benchmark Sensex delivering a solid return in July are reasonable. But will it? Data compiled from corporate database AceEquity suggests that there have been at least six instances in the…

The domestic rating agency revised its real GDP growth forecast for India to 7.3%, from 7.8%, for FY23 on Friday. This can be attributed to the higher oil prices, slowing of export demand and high inflationary pressures. Crisil said…

The final estimate for March quarter GDP in the US suggested the world's largest economy shrank 1.6 per cent in the quarter. But at the same time, Fed Chair Jerome Powell made a do-what-it-takes statement saying Fed would not let the…

India’s monetary policy can avoid falling behind the curve by following a forward guidance similar to the US Federal Reserve’s so-called dot plot, according to the South Asian nation’s most hawkish interest-rate setter. The central…