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April 20, 2021 They fear that a rise in interest rates could adversely impact prices of long-tenor securities Market participants, especially banks, in the Government Securities (G-Sec) market, seem to be turning averse to the conversion of short-tenor securitiesinto long-tenor securities, due to fears that a rise in interest rates could adversely impact prices of the latter. They are avoiding duration risk (the longer the maturity of a bond, the more sensitive it is to changes in interest rate...

Are floating-rate investment options a better bet? Satya Sontanam BL Research Bureau | Updated on April 17, 2021 Returns move up or down in sync with the market A phone call between two friends leads to a conversation about the interest rates offered by various debt options and whether they stay fixed or vary during the tenure of the instrument. Karthik: Hey, have you noticed that in the last couple of months the markets have rallied like there is no tomorrow? Akhila: Oh, yeah. And after much t...

MUMBAI: The rupee fell for the sixth straight session and settled 32 paise down at 75.05 (provisional) against the US dollar on Monday amid a lacklustre trend in the domestic equities ahead of the release of key macro-economic data. Moreover, rising crude oil prices, foreign fund outflows and spiking Covid-19 cases weighed on the domestic currency. At the interbank forex market, the local unit opened at 74.97 against the greenback and traded in the range of 74.78 to 75.14 during the day. Th...

The reversal of buying trend came after FPIs invested Rs 17,304 crore in March, Rs 23,663 crore in February and Rs 14,649 crore in January.

MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank on Wednesday said it will conduct simultaneous purchase and sale of government securities for Rs 10,000 crore each under Open Market Operations (OMOs) on March 18, 2020. The decision was taken after a review of the current liquidity and financial conditions, the RBI said in a statement while announcing the special OMO. "The Reserve Bank will continue to monitor evolving liquidity and market conditions and take measures as appropriate to ensure orderly functioning of f...

Positive bias seen for Nifty at open March 03, 2021 × Concerns on rising bond yields have softened after central bankers across the world have pushed back against higher rates After gaining sharply in the last couple of days, Indian markets are likely to open flat on Wednesday. The SGX Nifty at 15,020 points to a 60-point positive opening for Nifty futures, which on Tuesday closed at 14,958.15. Global markets too present a firm trend with most of Asia-Pacific ruling in positive territory thou...

It means bond prices are falling in value

“Unification of government bond and corporate bond markets is an idea whose time has come,” Tyagi said while speaking at a bond market seminar.

Strategists at BlackRock Investment Institute said the firm was increasing its underweight on US Treasuries.

Rising G-Sec yields: SBI report warns of MTM losses for banks February 22, 2021 × Recent surge in yields might be caused by to short-selling by market players, among others: SBI economic research report Ecowrap Any further upward movement in Government Security (G-Sec) yields, even by 10 basis points (bps) from the current levels, could usher in mark-to-market (MTM) losses for banks, cautioned State Bank of India’s economic research report ‘Ecowrap’. SBI’s economic research team beli...