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The Economic Times | Markets A movement from 83 to 81 finally justified the rupee’s strength versus the dollar. After remaining deviated for more than a month, finally in the new year, rupee chased its peers and started taking cues from the weaker USD. Standing right at multi-days or a week or a couple of

Financial Express | The inflation in the US began to rise from the beginning of 2021 from 2% to peak at around 9.1% in June whereas the Fed began to rise rates in March 2022 from 0.25% to 4.5% up-till December 2022. Since the inflation began to fall sustainably from July 2022 and markets got

The Economic Times | Markets C for CPI and C for central bank. Apart from having a common first letter in their word, a correlation lies between them. Let’s go through the last 3 year’s CPI direction, the central bank’s stance, and its impact on USD. 2020 – Lower CPI>>> Cut in central bank’s interest

The Economic Times | Markets Nobody had expected that December would remain an odd one out for the rupee as throughout the year it was seen either trading in line with its peers or outperforming. A move from 81.05 to 82.90 in December was little justified with OMC (Oil Marketing Companies) related dollar buying. This

As we come to the end of a sizzling-hot inflationary year, tides of rate hikes, and abnormal volatility, let’s rewind and glimpse through to peep what’s on the cards in 2023. After an 18-month bull trend in the dollar, the FX outlook has become hazy. Is the current positioning adjustment prompting short-term dollar weakness or

The Indian Rupee has been vulnerable to both domestic as well as global factors. On one side Current Account Deficit (CAD) and Balance of payment (BOP) are in bad shape and on the other, increasing marginal utility for USD has kept the local currency under pressure. Thus, sharp depreciation resulted in a quick change in

Indian Rupee’s journey, in 2022 from Best Median performer to worst performer among Asian currencies is just underway. The move could be erratic as the USD will have a free run over the INR as no resistance exists. Till the first half of 2022, The Rupee managed to limit its losses as the RBI continued

The rupee breached the 81 mark against the US dollar for the first time ever, following a fresh 20-year high in the dollar index after the Fed announced a 75-basis-point hike in the key US interest rate. Equities across the globe fell sharply and US bond yields hit multi-year highs. What does the road ahead look

Financial Express Link – https://bit.ly/3GlBnYK The Jackson Hole last month delivered a fatal blow to the markets and proved to be a complete turnaround for fiat. Powell seemed quite “focused” on taking “firm measures” (vigorous hikes) to bring the inflation to Fed’s 2% target as the economy’s health with a strong labor market and robust

One can say that the reign of equity, bond and currency market is totally in the hands of the Fed and is guided by it or it’s more by the expectation of what the Fed is likely to do! In July, after Fed sounded less hawkish, the expectation of a September hike had fallen from