Goods like chocolates, chewing gum, shampoo, deodorant, shoe polish, detergents, nutrition drinks and marble will now attract 18% GST>
Low fuel prices to help oil marketing and refining sectors but upstream players will stay under pressure.
In opaque, complicated markets like real estate, its best to stay away from generalisations.
Experts caution against tough times in Indian equity markets in 2015.
Sensex ends in green on boost from bluechip stocks.
Apple reduced channel inventory by $3.6 billion.
Technically speaking, US equities have seen net losses since January. India is strongly influenced by US trends.
With the continuing stand-off in Ladakh casting a shadow over the Sino-India talks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday raised 'serious concerns' over the repeated incidents along the border and sought an early settlement of the boundary question.
Analysts expect global markets to remain in consolidation mode with a negative bias over the next six months.
'We are overweight on India, as it is one of the best in emerging markets (EMs)'
Deal values have been falling steadily since May this year, when it touched a high of $851 million.
RBI must balance the need for improving domestic bank credit demand and respond to lower inflation.
It is expected growth will primarily be driven by continued demand from the US, a revival in the European market, especially continental Europe, and increased momentum in the adoption of new technologies.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has managed to pull off what was unimaginable a year back -- adopting a much-needed centre-left approach, says Devanik Saha.
Its growth has been driven by discounts rather than enticing new customers to its platform
More noticeable than the hue of his shirt was his mast style in the witness box. He seemed to be reinventing the truth every few minutes. He yarned on and on, navigating his testimony further and further away from the facts, but he never lost his aplomb.
Will Greece manage to pay euro 1.5 billion to IMF?
M R Venkatesh, chartered accountant turned political commentator tells Shobha Warrier/Rediff.com that Modi's war is not against the opposition parties or the Congress but against the bureaucracy and the establishment.
One has to wonder what is so wrong with the European Union.
What China's market crash means for India
'Swachh Bharat Cess imposed last year should be made broad-based.' 'Budget should be predominantly economy/ business-oriented and problem-solving rather than political consideration-based.'
'The recent US jobs report has eased fears of a hike in the Fed meeting.'
'Modi is a symbol of Asia Rising; and, for the first time in decades, a non-white has the potential to be the most compelling global leader.'
China's major economic problem has been that its heartland is an agricultural region with about one-third of the arable land per person as the rest of the world.
The real estate industry today hailed the RBI's decision to cut key interest rate, saying the move will boost housing demand and also improve sentiments in the sluggish property market.
While some companies, such as HSBC, have closed retail operations, big players such as India Infoline is scaling down.
Since multilateral trade creates a stable, peaceful world, normalisation of bilateral trade between India and Pakistan will start a series of peace building measures, especially along the bordering areas of both states which is the worst affected from the on-going conflict, say Riya Sinha and Shehzad Poonawalla.
Land aggregators now want to sell to large corporations because their payment is guaranteed.
About 5.5 million users are looking for real estate online in India
With Narendra Modi about to make his first Independence Day speech, there is a buzz in Delhi that Modi will make some big announcements to signal major reforms and directional shifts. But we have to wait and see if it happens, says Mohan Guruswamy.
The Congress on Thursday dared Narendra Modi to an open debate on his governance model in Gujarat, while rubbishing his attack on the United Progressive Alliance over the economic slowdown.
Happy at the clear mandate given by voters to the BJP-led NDA, India Inc on Friday exuded confidence that Narendra Modi will initiate bold and decisive policy reforms to promote economic growth.
So let's stop focusing the Modi agenda on India Inc and the capital markets, and let's start focusing on the Modi development agenda for the average Indian.
Hinduja brothers have been ranked as Britain's richest Asians in 2014 with a total worth of 13.5 billion pounds, an increase of one billion pounds over the previous year.
IT majr Wipro needs stability at the top deck, say industry watchers.
FM should avoid proposals such as to tax financial transactions and fringe benefits
Finance Minister P Chidambaram, while addressing the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on "Recapturing India's Growth Momentum" in Washington on Thursday, said that the leading think tank need not launch an initiative to explore how India will vote in 2014, declaring that the Indian polity will vote the Congress back into power.
It isn't Rajan ignoring money as much as it is Bernanke ignoring capital and exchange rates.
'My mantra is simple. If a customer demands something, we have to deliver at the speed he wants. No customer will wait for us. That is where local top-quality talent comes in,' says the MD of Bosch India.
'What should worry India and which needs to be expressed is Russia's simultaneous proximity to both China and Pakistan from a strategic angle. That hasn't happened ever before,' says Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd).
