US Federal Reserve

14 May 2020
Domestic stocks plunged on Thursday as the government's stimulus package to revive the economy left investors unimpressed.

22 Jun 2019
Just a few days back, Facebook announced Libra, a cryptocurrency based on a blockchain-based network called Calibra.

20 Dec 2018
The US central bank raised the benchmark borrowing rate yesterday, but gave the clearest sign to date that it will go slow on additional increases as it watches the economy.

22 Jun 2018
The US's 35 largest banks are "strongly capitalized" and would survive a severe global economic recession, the Federal Reserve announced.

28 Feb 2018
Falling for the third straight session, the rupee weakened by 23 paise to 65.10 against the US dollar to hit its three-month low in opening trade at the forex market today.

06 Feb 2018
The BSE's benchmark Sensex crashed below the 34,000-mark, plunging 1,271 points to 33,482.81 while NSE's Nifty50 sank below the 10,300-mark, slumping 390 points to 10,276.

13 Dec 2017
After falling continuously since a week, gold prices hit a four-month low yesterday, after a dip of Rs. 180 in the Delhi bullion market.

06 Dec 2017
The RBI's six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has kept the repo rate unchanged at 6%, second time in a row, in its fifth bi-monthly policy review.

01 Nov 2017
Former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan, makes for an ideal candidate to head the US Federal Reserve, says international financial magazine Barron's.

09 Sep 2017
On Friday, the price of gold rose by Rs. 990 to Rs. 31,350 per 10 grams over global cues, reaching the highest price in 11 months.

08 Jul 2017
The US economy added 222,000 jobs in June, according to the US Department of Labor.

15 Jun 2017
The Federal Reserve has hiked its benchmark lending rate by a quarter percentage point to 1.25% from its erstwhile 1%, showing its conviction in the US economy's growth and the job market performance and said that there is a chance of another hike later this year.

16 Mar 2017
The US Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate for the second time in three months by 0.25% to a range of 0.75-1%.

15 Dec 2016
The Sensex closed 83.77 points down after the US Federal Reserve hiked interest rates, indicating more hikes in 2017.

14 Dec 2016
Despite reports signalling an increasing possibility of a US Federal Reserve rate hike this month, India's Sensex managed to close higher on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

04 Oct 2016
The Reserve Bank of India cut its repo rate by 25 basis points to lower it to 6.25%.

19 Sep 2016
Bombay Stock Exchange has tied up with social media platform Twitter to enable its investors to obtain live stock information and updates.

04 Sep 2016
With Raghuram Rajan's tenure as RBI Governor seeing an end after he announced his decision to step down from taking up a second term, Urjit Patel will take over the reins as his successor on Tuesday.