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December 16, 2021 8:57 PM
India has registered the highest ever annual Foreign Direct Investment, FDI inflow of 81.97 billion dollars in 2020-21. Commerce and Industry Ministry said, FDI inflows in the last seven financial years is over 440 billion dollars, which is nearly 58 percent of the total FDI inflow in last 21 financ...
December 16, 2021 8:25 PM
Senior officials of the Finance Ministry headed by Secretary, Revenue had a meeting with the Infosys team headed today on preparedness of e-filing website during the peak filing period. As briefed by Infosys, steps taken in this regard include augmentation of the technical infrastructure and setting...
December 16, 2021 7:54 PM
The government has lowered Goods and Services Tax rate to five per cent from 18 per cent on ethanol meant for blending under the Ethanol Blended Petrol Programme. Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Rameswar Teli said this in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today. He said,...
December 16, 2021 6:41 PM
Asian markets ended higher today after the Federal Reserve flagged a long-awaited end to its monetary stimulus next year but delivered an otherwise upbeat economic outlook, which lifted investor spirits. So Japan's Nikkei-225 index jumped 2.1 percent; China's Shanghai Composite ind...
December 16, 2021 5:44 PM
Gold rose 209 rupees, to 47,405 rupees per ten grams today. Silver advanced 617 rupees, to 60,179 rupees per kilo. In the international market, gold was trading with gains at 1,785 dollars per ounce. Silver was flat at 22.16 dollars per ounce.
December 16, 2021 5:39 PM
Global crude oil rose towards 75 dollars today, supported by record US implied demand and falling crude stockpiles, even as the spread of the Omicron corona-virus variant threatens to put a brake on consumption globally. So, Brent crude oil futures rose 62 cents, to trade at 74.50 dollars a barrel. ...
December 16, 2021 5:08 PM
Investments by private equity and venture capital funds in the country stood at 6.8 billion dollars across 102 deals in November, which is double by value when compared with the pandemic-impacted year-ago period, the monthly data shared by industry lobby IVCA and the consultancy EY said. The overall...
December 16, 2021 4:55 PM
Global debt rose to a record 226 trillion dollars in 2020 as the world was hit by the raging Covid-19 pandemic and a deep recession, the International Monetary Fund announced. Global debt rose by 28 percent, to 256 percent of gross domestic product in 2020, the largest one-year debt surge since Worl...
December 16, 2021 4:24 PM
On Wall Street, key indices ended sharply higher yesterday after the Federal Reserve said it would end its pandemic-era bond purchases in March as it exits from policies enacted at the start of the health crisis. Wall Street extended gains as Fed Chair Jerome Powell, during his news conference, stru...
December 15, 2021 9:29 PM
Asian markets ended mixed today as the world waited to hear from the US Federal Reserve when it would stop buying assets and start raising interest rates. So China's Shanghai Composite index ended 0.4 percent, lower; Hong Kong's Hang Seng index declined 0.9 percent and Singapore&am...
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