'The revival of household savings and investment is the litmus test of whether we are on the road to recovery,' says Nitin Desai.
The Survey also said that the borrowings by banks have increased significantly.
According to experts, due to reduction in withholding tax, FIIs' investment in corporate bonds will pick up.
'The real estate sector has been badly bruised because it has become too reliant on funding from NBFCs, including housing finance companies. 'When the NBFC industry was rocked late last year by a large default, the real estate sector was hit hard. 'An intricate web of links between rural incomes, construction activity and shadow banks are fuelling the economic slowdown', says Pranjul Bhandari.
The list covers companies with annual revenue of $5 mn to $1 bn.
Banks have not cut rates yet as March is typically a busy season.
New filers reported an average income, in many cases, close to the income tax threshold of Rs 250,000, limiting the early revenue impact.
In the Sensex kitty, ITC turned star performer by surging 2.45 per cent, followed by NTPC rising 2.19 per cent.
The indices closed with losses for the week, with the Sensex declining 476.14 points, and the broader NSE Nifty falling 155.45 points during the period.
Promoters of SpiceJet do not have funds to bail out the airlines of dire consequences.
SBI is the first major state-run bank to hike lending rates after short-term rates rose as a result of the Reserve Bank of India's liquidity tightening moves announced in July.
Asset sales have helped ease investors' worry but debt remains at alarming levels
The MSME sector, which is employment-intensive, accounts for 45 per cent of the country's manufacturing, 40 per cent of exports and nearly 8 per cent of gross domestic product.
After another day of volatile trade, the rupee today appreciated by seven paise to close at a new one-month high of 59.04 against the dollar as the RBI's liquidity-tightening measures continued to lend support.
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Markets ended weak tracking the expiry of April derivative contracts.
Rebound in IT majors TCS and Infosys in late trades helped markets end higher.
There are also signs that the private sector investment cycle is slowly coming back, as capacity utilisation figures across industry continue to slowly creep up. A pickup in investments will front load profitability, says Akash Prakash.
Being more financially savvy helps women choose the right balance between consumption spending vs investing for future and can hold them in good stead as life hands out various twists and turns along the way, says Piyush Baranwal
'For those looking at forward-looking signals for the economy from the stock markets, the relative performance of small and mid-caps may be a better indicator of the future than the index levels of the narrower and more popular indices', says Neelkanth Mishra.
Two successive reports, one by Percy Mistry in 2007 and the other by Raghuram Rajan in 2008 had provided the RBI and the finance ministry with blueprints of what to do next. Both reports, unfortunately, was put on ice. The global meltdown saved the RBI. It also saved the finance ministry from having to work on the two reports.
market rally, especially in mid-caps, has also been driven by a pick-up in the monsoon and the government's resolve to get the goods and services tax (GST) Bill cleared in the recent session of Parliament.
Listed Mumbai developers are battling higher inventory levels.
Risk sentiment received a boost after eight core sectors grew to a five-month high of 4.9 per cent in August
'When bankers are hounded by investigative agencies for credit decisions going wrong and defaulters are treated like outcasts, who will borrow money and who will lend?' asks Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
The BSE Realty Index is on a downhill journey.
The government's total debt increased by 2.6 per cent to over Rs 46 lakh crore in the third quarter ended December, compared to the previous three months of the current financial year.
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Thanks to the recapitalisation by the government and measures taken by the central bank, collapse of any large housing finance company won't pose as big a risk as it had six months ago.
A strong supporter of the new tax regime, Adi Godrej tells Viveat Susan Pinto the second half of FY18 will be even better for consumer goods companies as challenges abate.
Trading such scenarios takes discipline.
Reserve Bank is scheduled to announce its bi-monthly monetary policy on August 3.
Earnings spread for foreign investors down to 10-year low of 1.1 per cent, from 2 per cent at the beginning of the year and record high of nearly 5 per cent in 2013
SBI plunged over 3% after posting a 34.57% fall in net profit to Rs 2,538 crore for the quarter ended September 2016 on rise in provisions for non-performing loans.
It won't be an easy ride for the markets, reckon experts, considering the multiple state elections in 2018 and general elections next year.
Customers need to weigh whether they will be better off selling their mutual fund holdings or taking a loan against it.
In the Sensex pack, M&M was the biggest loser, tumbling by 6.66 per cent, followed by TCS dropping 4.14 per cent.
The Sensex ended 290 points higher at 29,095 mark and the Nifty gained 94 points to close at 8,806 levels.
Though Indian banks don't have large exposure to subprime mortgages, analysts are worried at the rise in their restructured loan portfolios and deterioration in credit quality.
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