Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das tells Anup Roy, Raghu Mohan and Niraj Bhatt that it is time for banks to lower interest rates and start lending to cash-starved finance companies after due credit appraisal and proper risk assessment.
Chances of staying true to your goals tend to be high when you don't lose sight of what you set out to achieve, advises Arun Thukral, MD & CEO, Axis Securities.
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The RBI kept interest rates unchanged at 8 per cent as widely expected.
Fund managers weren't too worried in 2014, as it was a year of positive surprises.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Running a SIP plan for more than six years almost completely eliminates the chances of earning negative returns.
Economy to grow by 7.2-7.5 per cent in second half of current fiscal, says FM.
India's banks rely on overnight borrowings to fund longer-term lending.
To provide similar extended time limit for payment of tax deducted from payments made to non-residents, it is proposed that the deductor shall be allowed to claim deduction for payments made to non-residents in the previous year of payment.
This would be a 10-fold jump from $10-12 bn raised a year from Indian markets over past 2-3 years
While demonetisation will benefit the organised sector, the government has to find a way to channel the upcoming revenue buoyancy towards job creation to balance out job losses in the informal sector, says Akash Prakash.
It will take over large non-performing assets of banks and help in revive companies ridden with bad debts.
The Budget touches a few highs and lows as far as personal finance is concerned, and one needs to be aware of them in order to optimise on one's investment plans.
Don't let knotty financial issues weaken your marital bond. Heavy liabilities of one partner have the potential to sour a new relationship. So, develop a plan for how you will deal with these.
The RBI opened a forex swap window in August to meet the entire daily dollar requirements of three oil marketing companies as the rupee depreciated to an all-time low of 68.85 against the US currency.
No stock on BSE Sensex ended in red while only 3 stocks in the broader Nifty50 index settled the day negative
NDA government has shunned populism.
Right steps you can considerably reduce the tax outgo.
"The poor will not suffer disproportionately due to bouts of sharp inflation, and the middle class will not see its savings eroded," Raghuram Rajan said.
Optimism about a stable govt at the Centre, a demand revival and falling oil prices buoyed the markets.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, will answer your queries.
Private-equity funds made an average annual return of just 7 per cent between January 2007 and December 2013 while the Sensex was up 11 per cent.
There are good reasons to believe that India is at the start of a long period of growth for equities.
The president outlined the government's agenda in the coming financial year in his customary address to the joint sitting of both the Houses of Parliament.
With prices unlikely to run up sharply, genuine buyers can start readying deals before the festival season starts.
Deepak Parekh, chairman of Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC), India's largest mortgage lender, says the exuberance in industry about the new government is justified but big ideas articulated by the prime minister need speedy implementation.
After 800 days, is it a little clearer that Accused No 1 through 4 are responsible for her death?
Sanjay Mathur, managing director and head of economics research for Asia Pacific (ex-Japan), Royal Bank of Scotland, tells Business Standard that in the emerging market pack, India needs to learn lessons from Korea and Taiwan, which have managed their economic situations well.
We still have time for this government to take action.
The announcement of the formation of the BRICS bank will have as much an impact about how the non-G7 countries manage their economies and their foreign reserves, as it does on the intellectual discourse. The development priorities and agenda which was hitherto set by western experts responding mostly to western priorities and notions will now have to compete with an intellectual tradition that is and can be very different, says Mohan Guruswamy.
Indian economy about to take-off
'We have about Rs 4 lakh crore debt on a state budget of about Rs 1.5 lakh crore.' 'We are in a debt two-and-a-half times our annual budget,' says the banker who would have been Tamil Nadu's finance minister had the DMK won.
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