Gold prices hit a new high this week amid fall in Indian rupee and political tensions in Honk Kong. Gold prices surged high on account of high demand for safe-haven at physical markets and tracking global trends. On the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), the most-traded October contract of the yellow metal shot up to Rs 38,666 per […]
The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) strategy to add gold to forex reserves has started bearing fruits. The rising price of the precious metal has helped the central bank increase overall forex reserves despite currency reserves not rising, and sometimes even falling. According to the RBI’s forex reserves data, put out every week, its foreign currency reserves […]
After CRISL cutting down India’s GDP growth estimate to 6.9 per cent, India’s GDP growth is likely to be 6.2 per cent during the current fiscal, down from 6.8 per cent in 2018-19, on account of flat growth in agriculture sector, economic think-tank National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) said. The prospects for agricultural […]
Amid political uncertainty, US-China trade war, the mid-east crisis, and other global slowdown signs, global central banks turned big buyers in the month of June. Poland turned out to be the biggest buyer last month, with the Polish Central Bank buying 95 tonnes, one of the highest monthly purchase in recent years. China purchased 10.3 […]
The Reserve Bank of India purchased 52.3 tonnes of gold in FY19 to augment its foreign exchange reserves, according to the latest data released early this week by the World Gold Council. With this, it has entered league of world’s top-10 gold holding central banks. RBI currently holds 612.6 tonnes of the metal as part of its foreign exchange reserves. Till about a month ago, the central bank […]
The Reserve Bank of India is expected to cut key policy rates by 25 basis points (bps) in the upcoming monetary policy meeting amid subdued domestic industrial activity and slowdown in trade on the global front, says a report brought out by Dun & Bradstreet. According to Dun & Bradstreet’s latest economy forecast, the trade […]
Global demand for gold grew to 1,053.3 tonnes in Q1, up 7 per cent year-on-year, according to the latest report by the World Gold Council (WGC). A big reason for the stronger demand is central banks, which continued to buy gold for diversification and liquidity purposes. Another is improvement in the India market. Central banks around the […]
India’s central bank is likely to join counterparts in Russia and China scooping up gold this year, adding to its record holdings and lending support to worldwide bullion demand as top economies diversify their reserves, says a Bloomberg report. The Reserve Bank of India’s purchases are part of a wider picture across developing economies that […]
Wholesale price-based inflation rose for the second consecutive month to 3.18 per cent in March on costlier food and fuel, latest government data showed. The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) based inflation was at 2.93 per cent in February. It was 2.74 per cent in March 2018. Inflation in food articles hardened with steep rise in […]
India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew a lower-than-expected 6.6 per cent in the October-December period, the lowest in five quarters, dragged by lower farm and manufacturing growth, government data showed. India’s GDP growth was revised down to 7 per cent from 7.1 per cent in the second quarter ended September 30, 2018, according to data released […]
