Oct credit growth eases as lending to industry slows

On a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis, non-food bank credit rose 15.3 per cent in October 2023 compared with 18.3 per cent a year ago according to the latest data on sectoral deployment of bank credit was released by the Reserve Bank of India largely due to the merger impact of HDFc with HDFC Bank. Excluding the […]

Strong US GDP data drives rupee to a fresh low

The rupee closed at 83.3938/$1 a new record closing low. The domestic currency, which has depreciated by 0.8% against the US dollar on a closing basis so far in 2023, had closed at 83.3262/$1 on Wednesday.