HCL Technologies is seeing higher spends on retail banking modernisation in the US, and in the technology and telecom verticals. These helped the firm report a constant currency growth of 11.7% in the first quarter, its CEO & MD C Vijayakumar said. “Banking clients in the US are also spending in the regular areas of … Read more
Retail inflation slowed to a 16-month low in January on the back of cooling of some food items, while industrial output growth clawed back into positive territory in December, bringing some cheer for an economy battling a record slump due to the impact of the deadly pandemic. Data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) … Read more
The Adani Group Sunday refuted allegations levelled by BJP politician Subramanian Swamy that it owes Rs 4.5 lakh crore as NPA to banks and claimed it has maintained an “impeccable record of not a single NPA in the three decades of its existence”. “The Adani Group strongly objects to a factually incorrect tweet posted by … Read more
Investors have shifted into cyclical assets lately as COVID-19 vaccines are on the way and the economy gets set to recover. But Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson is warning that valuations are getting too high, and that a near-term pullback may in the cards. He laid out four strategies to still find returns in cyclicals. Visit … Read more
Jefferies says profit margins are indicating at least one extra quarter of improvement is ahead for stocks. The “shock drop” in margins in the second quarter is rebounding just as quickly as the third quarter earnings did, the bank’s equity strategist said. He added that the lack of a blue wave election outcome and subsequent … Read more
The inflation surge seen four decades ago kicked off “a fabulous ‘disinflationary,’ two-decade performance in both the economy and the stock market,” he wrote in a recent note. With policymakers setting the stage for a rise in inflation, the US is on track to usher in a similarly fruitful expansion, the strategist added. Detailed below … Read more
By far the worst quarterly plunge ever — when the viral outbreak shut down businesses, throwing tens of millions out of work and sending unemployment surging to 14.7 %, the government said Thursday. The Commerce Department’s estimate of the second-quarter decline in the gross domestic product, the total output of goods and services, marked the … Read more
Charles Biderman, a 30-year market veteran and founder of TrimTabs Investment Research, can’t believe his eyes. It’s safe to say that 2020 has been a peculiar year for markets. Despite a global pandemic, a 30 percent-plus stock plunge, 13% unemployment, and an economy that’s mostly still closed, the S&P 500 is trading less than 5% … Read more
The COVID-19 Pandemic, and the policy response to it, have fractured everything we knew as “normal.” Long-standing tensions and social distancing have collided to throw our world into disarray leaving business leaders to search for the “new normal” while re-assessing their business. This Pandemic Fracture has given rise to 5 Shifts that will shape our … Read more