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Brent crude futures were $1.22, or 1.7 per cent, higher at $72.29 a barrel at 1355 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures climbed $1.36, or 2 per cent, to $68.78 a barrel.

In 2020, Sebi introduced the new margin rules for day traders under which stock brokers were now mandated to collect minimum margins on leverage-based trade upfront as against the earlier practice of collecting it at the end of the day.

The fund had generated annualized returns of 20 per cent since its launch in August 2004 as against Nifty50 TRI’s 15.9 per cent compounded annual returns.

During the Fed chief’s speech both the S&P500 and NASDAQ index hit their lifetime highs, indicating that investors were largely happy with what they heard. Analysts believe the reaction of the US market bodes well for Indian equities next week.

At the time, the company’s management suggested that better days lay ahead. Kotak Institutional Equities believes they indeed do.

The US Fed is currently buying bonds worth $120 billion ($ 80 billion of Treasury Securities and $40 billion of mortgage-backed debt) since March 18, 2020. As on this date, the Fed had assets worth $4.7 trillion which has since increased to $7.8 trillion as on April 14, 2021.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 18.0 points, or 0.05 per cent, at the open to 35231.11.

At the Fed’s most recent policy meeting in late July, “I was of the view, as were most participants, that if the economy evolved broadly as anticipated, it could be appropriate to start reducing the pace of asset purchases this year,” Powell said.

The order was passed after the markets regulator noticed the investors of certain FMPs launched by Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund were not paid their full proceeds based on the declared Net Asset Value (NV) as on their respective maturity dates. The order will come into force with immediate effect, as per Sebi.

​​When that adaption happens at the right price point, then that would change the way India is consuming diesel and petrol today. So the entire planning has to be recalibrated going forward. It is a massive amount of change that is happening and all these segments whether it is energy or mobility, they are very much interconnected and their changes are also dependent on each other.