Macro — inflation, rates, jobs, GDP and policy shaping markets.
US stocks fell on October 14 after September CPI printed 3.7% — hot enough to lift implied odds of an October 28 Fed hike to 46%. The Nasdaq closed 0.78% lower as the 10-year yield jumped to 5.29%.
Billionbrains Garage Ventures reported a 54% year-on-year surge in Q2 FY27 net profit to Rs 726 crore and beat analyst estimates, even as sequential numbers softened.
Filings show Mukul Agrawal picked up 146,400 shares of Apsis Aerocom — a defence-heavy precision engineering SME up 470% since its March listing — while cutting exposure to KRN Heat Exchanger after its 61% one-year run.
Britain's grid operator NESO requested up to 1,200MW of emergency electricity imports from France on Monday evening after a delayed transmission asset reduced network capacity. Supplies stayed secure throughout.
India's central bank is selling dollars directly to state-run oil companies and sharply raising the cost of hedging rupee weakness as the currency trades near record lows. The rupee opened Monday at 95.76 per dollar, up about 1%.
Rome lifted its 2027 deficit target to 3.4% of GDP — a sharp jump from April's 2.8% — after signing off on €28 billion in new defense and energy borrowing. Goldman Sachs says wider deficits and rising yields could make Italy the eurozone's most indebted nation by 2028.
China sold 1.702 million passenger cars in September, 24% fewer than a year ago, while electric models reached a record 67.1% of the market.
Brent futures traded near $104 a barrel on Friday, keeping a near-$12.50 premium over US crude, as attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz reached their highest weekly count since the Iran conflict began.
Aritzia raised its fiscal 2027 revenue outlook to C$4.78–4.88 billion after Q2 revenue jumped 44% to C$1.17 billion, powered by 60% growth in the U.S. — though C$97.4 million in one-off tariff refunds flattered the quarter.
The US Treasury's $22 billion 30-year bond auction cleared at a 5.618% yield with 2.54x bid coverage, as foreign buyers took 72.3% of the sale and yields pulled back from 24-year highs.
India's central bank raised its benchmark rate by 25 basis points to 5.50% on Wednesday, ending nearly four years of cuts and pauses — but the rupee kept sliding toward 96.96, its weakest ever print, leaving traders wanting more.
America's August trade gap swelled 13.7% to $105.6 billion — the widest since March 2025 — as record imports of equipment and consumer goods outran exports, setting up a drag on third-quarter GDP.
