Gold prices came under heavy selling pressure on Tuesday, with COMEX gold trading in the $4,300–$4,380 range — down roughly 1.5–2 per cent in early trading — as a strengthening dollar and retreating rate cut expectations outweighed safe-haven demand from the ongoing West Asia conflict. The metal has shed nearly 19 per cent from record…
Central bank gold demand is set to stay strong as nations use it to hedge against de-dollarisation and geopolitical risks, underlining its enduring safe-haven appeal. | Photo Credit: iStockphoto Gold’s role as a hedge against dedollarisation and geopolitical risk is expected to spur central banks who have been absent from the market to buy the…
This image is used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The Government has written to the Chief Ministers and Chief Secretaries of States to ensure that coal prices are not increased, Union Minister for Coal and Mines G. Kishan Reddy told reporters on the sidelines of the launch of the seventh tranche…
Image used for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Personal loans are unsecured as lenders take risk by disbursing funds, without any collateral or guarantee. In this scenario, your credit score, which reflects past repayment behaviour, helps lenders in assessing the risk involved and taking a decision, as well as determining the interest…
Image used for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Do you ‘diversify’ when making lumpy investments and face many choices? Or “diversify” as you have underlying strategy to cut downside risk? Here, we discuss diversification heuristics which behavioural psychologists describe as how we behave when faced with many choices with large investment capital….
Two India-flagged LPG carriers, Jag Vasant and Pine Gas, have transited through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday (March 23, 2026) evening. They are together carrying nearly 93,000 tonnes of LPG, as per the inter-Ministerial briefing held on Monday (March 23, 2026). Jag Vasant and Pine Gas, owned by Great Eastern Shipping and Seven Islands…
The economy has recently been yielding some discomfiting data, even before the war in West Asia began. The most recent of these was the February 2026 data on the Index of Eight Core Industries. This release showed that growth in the overall Index had dropped to a three-month low in February, half the rate of…
Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw. File | Photo Credit: ANI Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Monday (March 23, 2026) unveiled three new initiatives aimed at strengthening India’s media, broadcasting, and digital sector and promoting the “orange economy”, or the creative economy. The creative economy includes industries where economic value is generated primarily from creativity, culture, technology,…
With regard to outflows, the outward FDI by Indian companies increased by 5.4% in January 2026 to $2.1 billion. This was, however, nearly 30% lower than the outward FDI in December 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Net foreign direct investment (FDI) into India contracted for the fifth consecutive month in January 2026, with outflows exceeding…
At present, domestic production of liquified petroleum gas (LPG) is fulfilling about 50-60% of our domestic demand, Sujata Sharma, Joint-Secretary at the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG) told reporters in the daily inter-ministerial briefing to discuss latest developments about the situation in West Asia Monday. “Right now, our domestic production is accounting for…
