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July 22, 2024 10:13 PM July 22, 2024 10:13 PM

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RBI Deputy Governor M Rajeshwar Rao addresses the BFSI Summit in Mumbai

RBI Deputy Governor M Rajeshwar Rao emphasized the importance of banks taking customer complaints seriously and using them as feedback to enhance their processes and products. Speaking at the BFSI Summit in Mumbai today, Mr Rao pointed out that the RBI continues to observe instances of slow response...

July 22, 2024 10:08 PM July 22, 2024 10:08 PM

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No Evidence of ‘Unfair Trading’ in June 4 Stock Price Drop: MoS Pankaj Chaudhary

Union Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary has said that the Security and Exchange Board of India, SEBI  which is the statutory regulator of the securities market has not received any specific information on any 'unfair trading' in connection with the fall of stock prices on 4th of June th...

July 22, 2024 8:45 PM July 22, 2024 8:45 PM

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Economic Survey: India’s fiscal deficit declines to 5.6% of GDP in 2023-2024

According to the  Economic Survey 2023-2024, against the global trend of widening fiscal deficit and increasing debt burden, India has remained on the course of fiscal consolidation. It says the fiscal deficit of the Union Government has been brought down from 6.4 per cent of GDP in Financial Year 2...

July 22, 2024 6:45 PM July 22, 2024 6:45 PM

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Market Update: Sensex down 102 pts; Nifty settles at 24,509

The Indian benchmark indices ended lower for the second consecutive session amid selling in heavyweights. At close, the Sensex was down 102 points or 0.13 per cent at 80,502 and the Nifty was down 22 points or 0.09 percent at 24,509.   In the broader market at the BSE, the Mid-Cap index up by 1...

July 21, 2024 6:45 PM July 21, 2024 6:45 PM

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Gold prices rise for fourth week amid Fed rate cut expectations

Global gold prices rose for the fourth straight week on expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in September. Gold gained nearly 1 percent this week to end at 2,446.80 ounce per dollar on Friday. Earlier, it hit an all-time high of 2,483.60 on Wednesday. However global Silver p...

July 21, 2024 8:21 AM July 21, 2024 8:21 AM

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FPIs infuse Rs 44,344 crore in stock markets this month so far

Foreign portfolio investors (FPI) continued the investment momentum in the stock markets in India, infusing around 44,344 crore rupees in equity and debt so far this month. According to the data with the depositories, FPIs have invested worth rupees 30,771 crore in equity and rupees 13,573 crore in ...

July 19, 2024 9:03 PM July 19, 2024 9:03 PM

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Kharif crop sowing crosses 704 lakh hectare

Kharif crops have been sown in over 704 lakh hectare till date as against 680 lakh hectare last year. Crop sowing data released by the Agriculture Ministry reveals that rice has been sown in over 166 lakh hectare, which is around 11 lakh hectare more than the last year. The Ministry said, over 85 la...

July 19, 2024 6:29 PM July 19, 2024 6:29 PM

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RBI reports minor disruptions from Microsoft outage affecting only 10 banks and NBFCs

In the wake of the Microsoft outage, the Reserve Bank of India said that it has made an assessment of the impact of this outage on its Regulated Entities, which shows that only 10 banks and NBFCs had minor disruptions which have either been resolved or are being resolved.   In a press release issued...

July 19, 2024 6:24 PM July 19, 2024 6:24 PM

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RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das urges banks to strengthen monitoring systems to combat fraud and mule accounts

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das has asked the banks to be watchful of the lag between credit and deposit growth and advised that the former should not exceed the latter. The Governor also warned that the financial system can get exposed to "structural liquidity issues" due t...