Market Sense

The Federal Reserve has indicated that it can raise interest rates if inflation moved up. The Fed's Chairman Ben S. Bernanke while maintaining that the US economy might be stronger than it appears, repeated that the central bank was monitoring...

A proposal mooted recently suggests that mainland China and Hong Kong should establish a joint trading mechanism for trading the shares of companies listed in both markets. Experts are of the view that this step would help curbing...

The real estate boom has not only pushed the prices of land but also the prices of real estate stocks too. People seem to be running after them in order to cash in on the hype besides the real estate companies. Companies are flocking the bourses to.

There are strong chances that interest rates in U.K will rise this month, says a report. According to a research conducted by BDO Stoy Hayward inflation threat expectations have been shot to a two-year high. BDO has stated that The Bank of...

In U.S., many states are planning to exploit their multibillion-dollar budget surpluses to cut business taxes to promote investors and be more competitive in the global economy. Few states also plan to reduce their personal income taxes. National...

The Chinese stock market is developing into a bubble and investors may land in trouble as they are behaving irrationally, said a top Chinese legislator. The Chinese authorities have recently expressed concerns over people's behavior in the stock...

Japan's factory output rose as overseas demand for automobiles and machinery increase. Industrial production mounted by 0.7 percent in December. Country exports increased 9.8 percent in December from a year earlier. Domestic production of Toyota...

The Federal Reserve is broadly believed to keep a short-term interest rate unchanged for the fifth successive time in its forthcoming meeting on January 31. However, experts and Wall Street keeping a close eye on the Federal Reserve's policy...

Europe's manufacturing growth is expected to slow in January and perhaps the economy too would decline further, a survey of economists analyze. The survey shows that economic growth in the 13 Euro nations is decelerating rapidly. German business...

India's Central Bank, Reserve Bank of India may raise its interest rate for the fourth time in a year as record economic growth stokes inflation. Governor Y. V. Reddy expected to increase the reverse repurchase rate to a five-year high of 6.25...