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Time right for India to create global norms, benchmarks: Sanjeev Sanyal

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India should be confident enough to deconstruct the rest of the world on its own terms as a rising economic power, creating global norms and benchmarks in various fields, Sanjeev Sanyal, Member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, said

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Evaluating Benchmark Misfit Risk

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How can we identify and measure a portfolio's benchmark misfit risk?

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Hiring soars, validating Fed’s ‘higher for longer’ path

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The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note surged after the September payrolls report on expectations of strong economic growth.

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Institutional Portfolio Benchmarks: Slow Rabbits?

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When it comes to their benchmarking practices, US public pension funds need to find faster rabbits to chase.

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Fed’s Powell: Economic Recovery Depends On Virus Containment, Coordination

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While this bounceback in economic activity is welcome, it also presents new challenges — notably, the need to keep the virus in check.”. The Fed has introduced programs to try and offset the economic decline, such as cutting its benchmark short-term loan rate to near zero.

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Fed’s Collins Signals Support for Slowing Pace of Interest Rate Increases

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The Fed raised its benchmark federal-funds interest rate this week by 0.75 That level is high enough to slow economic activity, and the question now is how much higher rates must go to sufficiently restrain demand to bring down inflation, said Boston Fed President Susan Collins in an interview Friday.

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Piyush Goyal confident of rate cut by Reserve Bank in coming months

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He noted that while the benchmark interest rate has been at 6.5% since February 2023, economic fundamentals in India are robust, with inflation averaging around 5-5.5% Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal expressed confidence that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) would reduce interest rates as inflation remains under control.