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“Every one person hired by an IT company creates seven new jobs in the supporting industry. All these people are going to spend in the coming two months and so consumption stocks are still very well positioned and will do well.”

Soaring global commodity prices, including of key inputs such as oil, chemicals, metals, plastic and cotton, are largely responsible for this rise. The volume growth is not commensurate with this value growth, traders and industry watchers say.

He said the digital lending space is gaining traction and banks need to develop products that can deliver services online to customers.

Most companies are using a mix of virtual and physical interface to meet with customers or investors in other locations. Travel for work has not reached pre-Covid levels yet, though companies say it will continue to show an uptrend, unless the third wave hits.

Bitcoin hit a six-month high on Friday, approaching the record hit in April, as traders became increasingly confident that U.S. regulators would approve the launch of an exchange-traded fund based on its futures contracts.

Companies said sales would have been much better in a consistent supply situation. Demand is more for premium products such as high-end smartphones, large-screen televisions and larger refrigerators, leading to all-time high Navratri sales of electronics and smartphones.

While petrol price in most of the country is already above Rs 100-a-litre mark, diesel rates have crossed that level in a dozen states including Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Chattisgarh, Bihar, Kerala, Karnataka and Leh.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is poised to allow the first U.S. Bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund to begin trading in a watershed moment for the cryptocurrency industry, according to people familiar with the matter.The regulator isn’t likely to block the products from starting to trade next week, said the people, who asked not to be named while discussing the decision.

In the past week, crypto lender BlockFi Inc. and Cathie Wood’s Ark Investment Management have put their names on applications for futures-backed Bitcoin ETFs, a structure that Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler has hinted that he’d be open to. Meanwhile, Valkyrie Investments updated its futures-backed ETF prospectus with the ticker BTF on Wednesday -- typically a sign that an issuer is nearing launch, according to Bloomberg Intelligence’s Eric Balchunas.

If regional banks show signs of accelerating loan growth when they report earnings in the week ahead, it could signal an easing of the supply chain bottlenecks that have weighed down the U.S. economic recovery from the pandemic, analysts and investors said.