There’s a growing investor interest for EMs excluding China: Chris Wood

Wood said there is also growing interest in offering China as a special asset class of its own with the rest of the emerging markets managed separately. Creating an emerging markets (EM) basket excluding China would benefit markets like India and Taiwan as China’s underperformance would weigh down the EM index returns. China has the highest country weightage on the EM indices.

NBFCs bracing for a rise in borrowing costs

Japanese brokerage Nomura Securities expects cost of funds for NBFCs to increase by 30-40 basis points by December 2023 due to a broad increase in market yields, higher benchmark bank rates and because non-convertible debentures (NCDs) issued by NBFCs will be priced at a more expensive yield.

L&T hits lifetime high on likely Aramco order win

The order win from Saudi Aramco is reportedly for the second expansion phase of its Jafurah unconventional gas production project, and will be executed by L&T Energy Hydrocarbon. This division accounted for about a fifth of the company’s total order book of over ₹4 lakh crore as of the June quarter.