Bitcoin retakes $38,000 while rate cut expectations increase

The largest cryptocurrency by market value gained as much as 3.3% to $38,264 before trimming the increase. Bitcoin reached an 18-month high of $38,422 on Friday. Lower rates generally increase investors’ appetite for riskier assets such as digital tokens.

Jana Small Finance Bank gets Sebi nod for IPO

Jana would be the seventh small finance bank (SFB) to be listed. The already listed small finance banks are AU, ESAF, Equitas, Suryoday, Ujjivan and Utkarsh out of the 12 licensed by the Reserve Bank of India

Companies pay more for debt fundraise as liquidity’s tight

Over the past year-and-a-half, as the Reserve Bank of India has raised interest rates and progressively drained the banking system of excess liquidity, the spreads between government bond (Gsec) yields and AAA-rated corporate bond yields have shot up.

Diversified construction companies in focus as award of govt road orders slows

Over the past year, awarding of road projects has been below the target. In FY23, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) awarded 6,003 km of road projects compared with a target of 6,500 km. In the first half of FY24, MoRTH awarded road projects of close to 2,595 km during the period compared with […]

TCS’ Rs 17,000-crore share buyback to open on Dec 1

“The company believes that the buyback is not likely to cause any material impact on the profitability or earnings of the company except to the extent of reduction in the amount available for investment, which the company could have otherwise deployed towards generating investment income,” TCS said in a regulatory filing.