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MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell to a five-week low, dragged by selling in Australia where the ASX 200 dropped 2% and was on course for a 7% weekly fall. Japan’s Nikkei fell 2.4%, while shares in China – where rate rises are not an imminent worry – were outliers with modest gains.

Since Musk began promoting the virtual currency, investors have lost around $86 billion, Johnson estimates. He would like Musk to reimburse investors this sum, plus pay double that in damages — an additional $172 billion.

The telecom department on Thursday issued a notice for holding the 5G spectrum auction-related pre-bid conference on June 20. The pre-bid conference is the first major event in the detailed auction timetable that is mentioned in the bid document.

Shares of Galactico Corporate Services and Ajanta Soya will go ex-split today. Galactico Corporate Services had announced the splitting of shares into face value of Re 1 from the face value of Rs 10 meanwhile Ajanta Soya had announced the splitting of shares into face value of Rs 2 from the face value of Rs 10.

SBI has hiked the minimum interest rates for home loans to 7.55 per cent. The move follows a 50 basis points hike in repo rate to 4.90 per cent by the Reserve Bank of India last week.

Markets had expected the 75 basis point hike and priced in several more after a surprisingly hot inflation reading last week. The dollar had scaled new heights as U.S. yields rose, but it lurched lower after Chair Jerome Powell’s press conference.It last traded at $1.0464 per euro, while in the Asia session the Australian dollar tacked another 0.4% on to its almost 2% overnight surge to hit $0.7031.

The Fed will announce a decision and publish fresh forecasts at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Washington. Powell will hold a press conference 30 minutes later.“The usual rule is, if you are worried about how your moves are going to affect financial markets, you move gingerly,” said Barclays senior economist Jonathan Millar, among the first to call for 75 basis points.

“Against a backdrop of sky-high inflation, rising rates, and growing recession concerns, the S&P 500 has had its worst start to the year since 1962,” noted analysts at Goldman Sachs.That would be the biggest increase since 1994, and markets already have rates reaching an eye-watering 3.75-4.0% by the end of the year.