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Source: Live Mint (Bloomberg) — Pump.fun’s decision to raise $1 billion is sparking concern that a token sale by the most popular platform for creating memecoins risks siphoning demand away from the hundreds of coins issued daily through the website. The platform, which is based on the Solana blockchain, is still in the early stages…
Source: Live Mint (Bloomberg) — A wave of listings by Chinese companies is expected to reinvigorate trading activity in Hong Kong, with optimism growing that a robust pipeline of debuts will drive the broader stock market higher. First-time share sales in Hong Kong have raised HK$77 billion ($9.9 billion) this year through May, the most…
Source: Live Mint Margin calls, need for liquidity exacerbate bond selloff Unwinding of basis trade reminds investors of 2020 market crash Swap spreads tighten sharply, signaling selling pressure By Davide Barbuscia and Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK, – A violent U.S. Treasury selloff, evoking the COVID-era “dash for cash,” has reignited fears of fragility in the…
Source: Live Mint The recent recovery suggests that markets may have found some floor even as risks from global uncertainties and tariff war persist, but investors would do better to stick to large caps amid volatility, according to Niraj Kumar, chief investment officer at Future Generali India Life Insurance. “The prevalent VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity,…
Source: Live Mint (Bloomberg) — Denmark’s AAA rated government bond market is set to get a much-needed boost to liquidity as the central bank takes over financing for the Nordic country’s municipalities. KommuneKredit, which serves local governments and had total loans and leases of about 200 billion kroner ($29 billion) last year, will immediately stop…
Source: Live Mint Read this | Investing in 2025: How often should you rebalance your portfolio? Much like the “Impossible Trinity” in economics, the Fixed Income Trinity highlights that optimizing all three elements simultaneously is unfeasible. Investors must prioritize two, inevitably compromising the third. Fixed Income Trinity explained The Trinity revolves around three key aspects:…
Source: Live Mint Fed lowers reverse repo rate by 30 basis points Fed reverse repo rate now 4.25%, matching low end of fed funds range Analyst expect Fed tweak to flush cash from reverse repo facility Dec 18 (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve adjusted a key part of its rate control toolkit on Wednesday, lowering…
Source: Live Mint We have been talking about the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) easing interest rates for quite some time. The question now is: what is the appropriate time for the RBI to initiate this? The latest meeting of the central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was on 6 December. Earlier, there were expectations…
Source: Live Mint In recent years, the decline in debt mutual fund investors has been alarming. Since 2020, folios in fixed income funds have dropped to 7.1 million from 8.1 million even as equity-oriented fund folios have skyrocketed to over 1.5 billion from 638 million. While the percentage of total MF assets to bank fixed…
Source: Live Mint Retirees or those close to retirement face the challenge of managing their savings throughout their lifetime. At this stage they no longer have the luxury of building up their savings and instead need to withdraw from their corpus. They cannot afford substantial erosion of their corpus as it must cover their expenses….
