Prices of gold inched lower on Monday, reaching close to their lowest level in two weeks touched in the previous session. This comes as an elevated U.S. dollar continued to pressure demand for greenback-priced bullion. Spot gold plunged 0.1% at $1,928.08 per ounce, as of 0033 GMT. U.S. gold futures were dipped 0.2% at $1,930.10. Gold prices fell to their lowest since April 7 on Friday.
Open FlipEuropean Central Bank policymakers are looking to raise interest rates as soon as July but certainly no later than September. But first ECB plans to end their bond purchase scheme as early as possible. ECB has been noticed following a slowest possible pace this year but the inflation surge is now weighing on policymakers to end their nearly decade-long experiment with unconventional support.
Open FlipRecently, a series of text messages that Musk exchanged with Silicon Valley friends, investors, and the managing director of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund during that saga have come to light. A message sent to Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the head of the Saudi PIF, revealed an angry Musk discussing content that reported the fund was “said to be in talks” to take Tesla private.
Open FlipFoxconn Technology Group, the prime supplier of Apple Inc have halted the operations at two of its factories located at Dianfa and Fuhong in the northern part of Kunshan, following the report of new COVID-19 cases on-site. Since Wednesday last week, operations at those plants have been suspended with all employees confined to dormitories inside.
Open FlipTwitter commenced deal negotiations with Elon Musk on Sunday. This was noticed after the Tesla chief wooed many of the social media company's shareholders with financing details on his $43 billion acquisition offer. However, the initiation of the discussion does not signify that Twitter is ready to accept Musk's $54.20 per share offer for selling the Company.
Open FlipIndusInd Bank and Edelweiss Asset Reconstruction Company have decided to cancel the deal to sell Future Retail’s loans. According to the sources, the bank has put on the block a bunch of loans, including to Future Retail, Asian Hotels (North) & some small-value exposures. With this move, Edelweiss ARC seems to have backed out of buying the Rs 247cr corporate exposures with its incomplete audit.
Open FlipTop three IT players- TCS, Infosys and HCL Tech –- onboarded 1.97 lakh employees in FY22. The software companies even provided offer letters to 2.08 lakh freshers for the year, and will be onboarding 1.35 lakh campus hires in FY23. The firms took this decision amid rising attrition despite demand continuing to be robust. Attrition is may hike before moderating in the second half of FY23.
Open FlipCrude oil prices continued to decline even on Monday amid concerns that prolonged COVID-19 lockdowns in Shanghai and potential U.S. rate hikes would dent global economic growth and fuel demand. Brent crude futures plunged by $1.90, or 1.8%, to $104.75 a barrel at 0015 GMT. Similarly, U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures declined by $1.89, or 1.9%, to $100.18 a barrel.
Open FlipReliance Capital's (RCap) committee of creditors (CoC) has selected to offer a “cash-only” option for bidders of its subsidiaries. However, the investors for the entire company are eligible to make both cash and deferred payment bids. Sources close to the development further stated that the timeline to pay upfront cash will stand at 90 days.
Open FlipBitcoin and the major cryptos witnessed a price decline, along with the strong crypto by market cap. just above the $40,000 mark.🔎 DOGE and Shiba-Inu, which are the Memecoins now are briefly swept the cryptocurrency market by any downsides in 2021, have not seen any major price developments. 👉Further, the Dogecoins remained the most loved meme coin, believing that it may come to the $0.15 level.
Open FlipReligare Enterprises Limited (REL) brought to the notice of the general populace through an exchange filing on April 24 that it had successfully taken care of all legacy issues with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi). SEBI had allegedly told Religare that it had not followed compliance regulations.
Open Flip⛔HDFC Bank was down by more than 7% in the week gone by. 🚀Maruti Suzuki jumped over% as the carmaker to offset the rising in input costs. ⛔Rallis India shed over 10% after Tata Chemicals posted a total loss of ₹14 cr in its Q4FY22. ⛔L&T Tech declined more than 9% in the week gone by. 🚀Sterlite Tech added over 9% after stating that the promoter is looking for investors for its 3 verticals.
Open FlipIn a pleasant development, it has been established that the exports of ceramics and glassware products reached a "record" $3.5 billion in 2021-22. The aforementioned development was brought to the notice of the general populace by the commerce ministry on Sunday. The reason behind this substantial rise is the growth of shipments of ceramic tiles and sanitaryware.
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Open FlipThe CEO of hugely famous retail-focused commission-free stock and crypto trading platform Robinhood, Vladimir Tenev recently voiced his views on how Dogecoin ($DOGE) has the potential of becoming the currency of the internet. As per Tenev, Doge's transaction fees is very low and it could establish it as a people's favorite currency in the near future.
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