With RIL supplying about 47 per cent of the domestic petcoke production, current dynamics are bound to change.
The rating outlook change is relevant now, as the US Federal Reserve is set to end its monthly bond-buying programme in October.
Experts said many of the programmes started in the last one year have been dogged by poor implementation, something which the state seriously needs to answer as it faces a tough electoral battle in the months ahead.
The development came a day after the protesting farmers rejected the Centre's offer to start talks as soon as they move to Burari and continued to stay put Singhu and Tikri borders of the national capital.
'If global growth continues to be sluggish, India instead could potentially take a bigger piece of a shrinking pie,' says Prachi Mishra, managing director, Global Macro Research, and India chief economist, Goldman Sachs.
In upmarket colonies, the bulb, a key ingredient in many Indian dishes, cost as high as Rs 70-80 a kg.
BSE PSU index rallies 10% in one month; nearly a third of the stocks on the index has gained 20% over the period
In the past month, wheat prices have increased 6.3% as production is expected to be 1.5% lower, in terms of crop acreage, than the earlier estimate
FIIs pump in $1.4 billion in March, after pulling out $2.9 billion in Jan-Feb.
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The Drug (Prices Control) Order implemented in May last year brought into its purview 652 packs of 348 formulations.
From NITI Aayog to industry leaders to the Reserve Bank of India, all are apprehensive that any major increase in MSP, following the 2018-19 Budget announcements, would push up prices, if not immediately, in the next six to eight months after the decision is taken.
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The index rising for the fourth straight session surged 564 points.
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The markets had been on an upward trajectory since August 2013.
Most analysts had predicted a decline in real estate fixed asset investment.
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With commodity markets remaining soft and uncertain, it is likely the money will flow into equity markets with strong upsides, such as India.
As the reform process is expected to gain further momentum, the Indian rupee will continue to outperform its Asian peers, which are likely to weaken further against the US dollar in 2015, says an HSBC report.
In terms of magnitude of rate cuts, Morgan Stanley expects 50-100 basis points of policy rate cuts in 2015, depending on the inflation trajectory, which in turn will be dependent on the trend in commodity prices, fiscal deficit and rural wage growth.
The bulk of of trading on stock markets is done algorithmically, by computerised clerks working at the behest of human traders.
Exports during the same period in 2012-13 fiscal stood at Rs 1,590.79 crore (Rs 15.9 billion), according to National Horticultural Research Development Foundation data.
Oil subsidies to fall 44% in FY15.
Better supply management and check on hoarding should be able to prevent food price spikes
Net sales during the reported quarter rose to Rs 20,594.3 crore, up 14.4 per cent against the year-ago period.
The North-West is expected to be hit the most.
'To ensure you remain with the better performers, you need to consistently monitor your MF portfolios and weed out the non-performers, even if they are from a star fund manager or a fund house with a sound record.'
And why markets could give up 25 per cent of all these gains made since March 2020
Morgan Stanley expects RBI to cut rates sharply rather than "dribble down".
India is a $180-billion automobile market, including vehicles and services. Of this, only $1 billion is online.
Prices of the kitchen staple in Azadpur mandi, Asia's largest wholesale market, were ruling at Rs 60 per kg today as supplies were below normal.
The muted CPI inflation print at 5% earlier this week, followed by a similar WPI number released Wednesday, seems to have spurred India's central bank into action, is how the economists are reading into Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan's 25 basis point cut in repo rate.
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FIIs have offloaded stocks worth Rs 13,110 crore
'Let the high price of onions clear the market, matching supply with demand.' 'Let onion growers keep exporting -- we are the world's largest onion exporter, export 10% of our production,' advises Naushad Forbes.
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First, there has been a significant softening in commodity prices - most notably oil.
'If the mandis were not working in Delhi, or the onion market in Nashik got affected, or there were disruptions because of unloading or loading in any sector in south India, we intervened.'
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