It was another robust month of Feb-22 for merchandise exports (physical goods). The Commerce Ministry released preliminary data on the first working day of each month pertaining to the previous month. This comes much ahead of the actual trade data th

One of the world’s largest commodity groups and a leading diversified metals and mining conglomerate in India, Vedanta Ltd, has just declared its third interim dividend for the financial year FY22. The spike in dividend per share resulted in the pr

In the US, the FED follows a typical data path. First, the FOMC meet makes the rate announcement and discloses liquidity path. Secondly, the publication of the minutes follow after 21 days. After around one week, the FED chairperson testifi

In a move that was rather surprising, yet expected, Madhabi Puri Buch was appointed the chairperson of SEBI for a period of 3 years. She takes charge of the new role on 02nd March. One of the most respected financial industry veterans, Madhabi Puri B

The Central Depository Services Limited (CDSL) has just crossed 6 crore demat accounts. This was disclosed by CDSL in a press release. What is more interesting is that the last 1 crore accretion from 5 crore demat holders to 6 crore demat holders hap

If you thought that the Adani group and Reliance group are only going to face off on the green energy front, think again. The other big arena appears to be media. In a surprising move last week, Adani Group announced that it had acquired a minority s

On 01st December 2021, Brent Crude at $68.87/bbl. Exactly 3 months later, the price of Brent crude has surged by a whopping 60% to $110.42/bbl. Just 3 months back, the Omicron variant had just about reared its head and the estimate was that slack dem

Expiry Day Strategy for 03.03.2022 Our markets have traded with higher volatility in last one week due to rising geo-political tensions between Russia and Ukraine. The India VIX continues to trade higher around 30 level and the important short ter

The National Statistical Office (NSO) normally releases two advance estimates of full year GDP each year and then released the full year GDP numbers on the last day of May. This year, on 07th January the NSO had released the first advance estimates (

The National Statistical Office (NSO), affiliated to the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation (MOSPI), announces the quarterly GDP exactly 2 months after the end of the quarter. Consequently, the annualized GDP for the Dec-21 quarter was

The issue of Sovereign Gold Bond 2021-22 – Series X opened on Monday 28th February and will be the last sovereign gold bond issue for the current fiscal year. Here is what you need to know about the latest issue of the Sovereign Gold Bon

The legal battle between the Future group and Amazon is still on over the sale of the business to Reliance Retail. But, the process of Reliance taking over Future group may have already begun. As per reports, Reliance Industries is in the process of