MUMBAI: Large banks show a continued trend of credit growth outpacing deposit mobilisation in the quarter ended Dec 31, 2025, with most lenders reporting advances rising faster than liabilities, and shifting deposit mix in favour of term deposits over current and savings accounts (CASA).India’s largest private bank HDFC Bank reported gross advances of around Rs…
Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Oil stocks — Shares of major U.S. oil companies jumped following the U.S. attack on Venezuela that led to the ouster of leader Nicolas Maduro as they are seen as beneficiaries from the rebuild of energy infrastructure in the country. Chevron , which already has a…
Copper touched $13,000 a ton for the first time, extending last year’s scorching rally as mine outages and trade dislocations fuel concerns over supplies of the key industrial metal. Benchmark futures rallied as much as 4.3% in London. A strike at the Mantoverde mine in Chile was just the latest supply disruption at a time…
Filecoin FIL$1.6064 rallied 6% on Monday to $1.59 during the 24-hour period, outperforming the wider cryptocurrency market. The broader market gauge, the CoinDesk 20 index, was 2.2% higher at publication time. The storage token climbed from $1.51 to $1.59 over the session, carving out a $0.21 range (13.9%) while volume registered at approximately 91% of…
Lalu Prasad Yadav (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Monday refused to stay Lalu Prasad Yadav‘s trial in the alleged IRCTC scam case and issued notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seeking its reply.The single-judge bench of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma told Yadav’s lawyers, Kapil Sibal and Maninder Singh, that…
India is planning to shift to net domestic product (NDP) as its main measure of economic activity, moving away from gross domestic product (GDP), in line with the United Nations’ System of National Accounts (SNA) 2025 guidelines. The change is expected to be implemented from 2029–30, according to official sources quoted by Economic Times.The statistics…
Michael Burry attends the premiere of “The Big Short” at Ziegfeld Theatre on November 23, 2015 in New York City. Dimitrios Kambouris | Getty Images Michael Burry’s quiet bet on Venezuelan oil is coming back into focus. The investor best known for “The Big Short” said he has owned Valero Energy since 2020, a position…
NEW DELHI: Amid a tightening security environment shaped by a militarily assertive China and a volatile Pakistan, the defence ministry has cleared military modernisation projects worth nearly Rs 79,000 crore, marking one of the most consequential procurement approvals in recent years. The clearances were accorded by the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) chaired by defence minister…
RBI governor Sanjay Malhotra (File photo) Reserve Bank Governor Sanjay Malhotra met senior executives of major non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) on Monday to discuss key issues facing the sector, stressing the need for strong lending standards and close monitoring of loan quality.The meeting was attended by heads of government-owned NBFCs, housing finance companies and microfinance…
Fred Wilson, one of the most influential venture capitalists in the U.S., thinks crypto’s breakthrough moment in 2026 won’t come from new blockchains — but from making them invisible to their end users. “Blockchains disappear behind better consumer interfaces that allow users to use, spend, trade, and send tokens without concerning themselves with which blockchain…
