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BlackRock Total Return Fund Q2 2026 Commentary

Treasury yields steadied on Tuesday as investors await more data releases for insights into the U.S. economic picture. Yields on the 10-year Treasury note — the key benchmark for mortgages, auto loans and credit card debt — were flat at at 4.7021%. The longer-dated 30-year Treasury note yield was also unchanged at 5.2297%. The yield…

The International Financial Services Centres Authority (Ifsca) plans to set up an independent arbitration centre in GIFT City to improve the ease of doing business and strengthen dispute resolution in India’s flagship global financial services hub, according to a government official.   “This is the biggest reform that Ifsca is working on and…

The Reserve Bank of India plans to conduct a seven-day variable rate reverse repo (VRRR) auction on Monday, aimed at absorbing Rs 2.5 trillion from the banking system.   On Friday, banks parked Rs 95,970 crore against the notified amount of Rs 1.5 trillion under the three-day VRRR auction.   A VRRR…

India’s securitisation market began FY27 on a strong note, with volumes rising about 20 per cent year-on-year to around Rs 61,000 crore in the April-June quarter, driven almost entirely by non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), according to rating agency ICRA.   The growth extends the trend seen in the previous financial year, when banks sharply…

Technology, and its ever-present subsector artificial intelligence (AI), are perhaps the hottest topics in investment – and have been for several years. Information technology officially accounts for 32% of the MSCI ACWI Index. Yet in reality, what we’d all intuitively think of as ‘tech’ companies account for a greater proportion of this, since MSCI officially…