Liquidity pressures to top agenda of RBI's meeting with bankers.
The government securities market provided annualised returns of 8.18 per cent in the last 10 years, according to a new gilt index launched by ratings agency Crisil.
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The revision of the consumer price index and GDP base years from 2011-12 and 2012, respectively, were dependent on the outcomes of the consumer expenditure survey of 2017-18 that the government decided to junk recently.
Indian households incurred an additional expenditure of whopping Rs 5.8 lakh crore (Rs 5.8 trillion) in the last three years, due to spiralling inflation and dearer food items, says a research report.
Huge demand for dry bulk commodities such as iron ore, coal, and grain has helped the Index touch a five year high recently.
Crisil's experience is that these reports improve volumes for the companies covered.
With little clarity on the demand outlook, investors should wait out the next couple of quarters rather than rush in to catch a falling knife, says Ram Prasad Sahu.
Rating agency Crisil said on Friday that Asian spot LNG prices are expected to go up in the short term due to power generation disruptions in Japan.
Experts say local demand, government policies in retail and refining sector are attracting foreign players.
The study covers 3,234 SMEs, with sales turnover ranging from Rs 1 crore (Rs 10 million) to Rs 500 crore (Rs 5 billion). It includes manufacturing, trading and service companies in 30 industries across 20 states.
As a result of the mass state-led scheme, the processes in the health insurance market could get simplified over time and become uniform
In December 2010, Mumbai-based Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies received an A*** grading by credit rating agency Crisil.
Consumer durable companies are stepping up investments in production and distribution to cash in on the demand the industry is witnessing. According to a recent report by research agency Crisil, the Rs 25,000-crore consumer durable industry is slated to grow at a rate of 17-18 per cent over the next five years, to touch Rs 60,000 crore.
After a stint in Crisil as chairman, Mohan joined the Mukesh Ambani-led company as executive director in August this year, RIL spokesperson said.
Rating agency Standard & Poor's is using the experience of working with the Indian rating agency, Crisil, a subsidiary of S&P, to its advantage. Deven Sharma, president, Standard & Poor's, spoke to Rajesh Bhayani
The closely-held company, which runs 22 Lifestyle departmental stores, 11 Home Centre furniture and household accessory stores and six value format Splash stores, had totted up losses of Rs 46.5 crore (Rs 465 million) in the first nine months of 2008-09, up sharply from Rs 18.9 crore (Rs 189 million) in the whole of 2007-08.
However, the Indian economy is expected to bounce back in 2021, the World Bank said.
It boils down to whether greater government spending makes up for lower private consumption or whether, through higher interest rates or inflation, it hurts it.
Better than projected revenues from the spectrum auction for 3G services and Broadband Wireless Access is likely to reduce the Centre's fiscal deficit to 4.47 per cent of the GDP during 2010-11 from an estimated 5.5 per cent and curtail its huge borrowings.
This would help investors to get a fair understanding of the companies, Sebi chairman, C B Bhave said while launching independent equity research by Crisil in Mumbai on Tuesday.
The number of carbon credits or certified emission reduction (CERs) issued for a cut in the release of greenhouse gases into the environment is set to triple in India over the next three years, due to a rising number of claims from rapidly growing renewable energy (RE) projects.
A rate hike will set back the recovery process, but if RBI does raise rates, it will be to prevent the rise in food prices from spilling over to other sectors and to dampen inflationary expectations.
An alternative approach has been demonstrated by IIT Bombay, which has been transmitting live, through Edusat and webcast, about 1,000 hours of its own classroom teaching free of cost every semester.
In an interview with BS, Roopa Kudva appears most excited about climate change. Another area is the grading of listed equities which, according to her, is an extension of IPO-grading.
The country's mutual fund industry posted five per cent growth in average assets under management (AUM) to touch all-time high of Rs 8.68 lakh crore in May on the back of strong inflows into money market and income funds.
On the eve of the Budget presentation, economists on Thursday said the they expect the government to roll back some of the stimulus measures, as the economic growth is on rebound with the Economic Survey projecting the GDP to expand by up to 8.75 per cent in FY'11.
Electricity generation has outperformed the industrial production index for five months in a row this financial year, even as the broader economy is struggling to grow.
The Sebi's 'recent directive to reduce the time between the closure of an IPO and its listing to 12 days from 22 will lead to interest savings of approximately Rs 800 crore annually for the retail and high net worth individual investors,' the study said.
A freely convertible country must have sound macroeconomic policies.
Most analysts expect the note ban to sharply hit GVA growth in Q3 and Q4, and the central bank's stance is being called into question.
The higher outlay for the Commonwealth Games would aid the hotel sector in faster execution of the projects in the NCR region.
Most of the NBFCs do not take public deposits but that does not mean they cannot create systemic risks. The banking system has at least Rs 57,000 crore exposure to IL&FS. Haven't the banks invested public money in IL&FS papers, asks Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Such cold-shoulder by banks also indicates a credit freeze that is hard to overcome, unless the government comes out with credit guarantee schemes for loans given by banks. Since that is not happening, and there is no indication of that too, banks are not willing to listen to RBI prodding.
Wipro's scrip jumped 2.97 per cent to Rs 468.50 on the NSE.
CRISIL chief economist D K Joshi is of the opinion that GDP is an indicator of the health of the economy.
Significant portion of the funds used to fuel urban demand have become illegal and inoperative.
Asian financial institutions have remained relatively unaffected by the global financial crisis, with their write-downs constituting just six per cent of the worldwide credit losses, estimated to be $300 billion so far, a latest report said.According to rating agency Crisil, most Asian financial institutions and global institutions with dominant exposure in Asia have remained relatively unscathed as they were shielded by their asset mix.
Bankers said as part of its debt reduction plan, Canada's Brookfield-sponsored India Infrastructure Trust acquired a pipeline for Rs 13,000 crore from East West Pipeline Ltd, an arm of Reliance Industries Holding Private Ltd, and all the liabilities are now off the subsidiary's books.
Research firm Crisil on Monday said that the 3G services industry subscriber base is likely to touch the 100-million mark by the end of its fifth year in operation.
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