Consultations underway with stakeholders for making national e-commerce policy: DPIIT secretary Anurag Jain
Secretary in the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) Anurag Jain said that a draft of the policy has been prepared after detailed public consultations and valuable suggestions have been received. “Stakeholders’ consultations are underway to formulate the national e-commerce policy,” he said.
India’s merchandise exports to rise over 11 per cent to $114 billion in July-September: Report
Exim bank said that the rise in exports during the second quarter of FY23 could be shadowed by softening global commodity prices. Slowdown in major trade partners, inflationary pressures and tight monetary policies around the world could also offset the exports gain, as per the Exim Bank data.
Where is gold headed next week? Praveen Singh of Sharekhan decodes
Despite rallying risk assets, the 10-year US yields inched higher to finish over 1% higher at 3.315%, which is close to its cyclical high. The gold rally has faltered once again at $1730 level. The factors that led to a decline in the US Dollar Index are unlikely to be effective for long. Traders will […]
Is crude headed towards a new era of oil geopolitics?
The oil futures curve is downward sloping, a shape that coincides rather with scarcity not abundance of commodity supplies. That said, the quota reduction is minimal, and many producers remain below their individual levels.
Growth vs value investing – How do you make the right choice?
In the Indian stock markets, before the comeback in 2021, in three consecutive calendar years (2018, 2019, 2020), value investing underperformed while growth investment style gave handsome returns. Following only one of these two styles can make a portfolio more volatile and have a negative effect on portfolio performance on a risk-adjusted basis.
Why Smart Beta Funds could be the next frontier to get “alpha”
Smart-beta strategies are mechanical ways of assembling bundles of companies other than by their total stock-market value, as conventional index funds do. Compared to the Indian fund industry, where AUM of all smart-beta strategies is less than $1 billion put together as of August 2022, the popularity of Smart-beta funds is way higher with AUM […]