The silver lining is that a pick-up in the US economy could help emerging market exports.
The outlook for India's rating would improve if fiscal, inflation and infrastructure metrics get better, a global report said.
Fifty per cent of bank restructured assets were in infrastructure, steel, power and telecom sectors.
FY17 GDP growth faces cash crunch heat
As an exercise, Ray is an effort worth encouraging. As a collaboration, it a hit and miss, notes Sukanya Verma.
From Jammu and Kashmir to Andhra Pradesh, consumers are facing power cuts ranging from 2 hours to 8 hours.
Bubbles can inflate indefinitely and also burst, with deep corrections, warns Devangshu Datta.
Within hours of rate cut announced by RBI, United Bank has reduced the benchmark lending rate by 0.25 per cent, while other banks including market leader SBI have indicated that they would follow suit.
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Market participants are hoping for a few tweaks on the taxation front which will encourage consumers and businesses to spend.
After helping the government in policymaking since October 2014, Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian is returning to academics and will be teaching at Harvard Kennedy School on a visiting position. In an interview to Dilasha Seth and Somesh Jha, he says the ease of doing business agenda needs to move forward and India must try to integrate with the global value chains. Edited excerpts.
'China need not worry about a truly 'resurgent India'.' 'It's not going to happen.'
'We have the political will to take this to the very end.' 'But what eventually happens depends on the effectiveness, honesty and missionary zeal of the officialdom in the frontline of the battle against corruption,' says S Muralidharan.
The 'BluFin Business Cycle Indicator', which reflects various macroeconomic trends on a monthly basis, stood at 166.3 points in May, 5.8 per cent higher compared to the same month last year, suggesting that the Indian economy is growing at a faster rate than the previous year.
'As of now, it is hard to see how the stalemate can be broken.' 'For the Sikh Jat farmers who constitute the core of the protest are a simple-minded but stubborn lot. 'They are unlikely to call off the stir unless provided a sense of 'victory'.' 'Give them a reason to boast that they brought the government to its knees and they will start singing hallelujahs to the Modi government,' argues Virendra Kapoor.
India still has to go a long way to implement reforms in various sectors.
'The attempt to build a negative narrative about India's economic performance is disingenuous.' 'For the investors as well as the targeted beneficiaries of welfare schemes, the ground reality is very different,' argues Rajiv Kumar, vice-chairman, NITI Aayog.
Meeruthiya Gangsters is a decent attempt from a debutant director, says Nishi Tiwari.
Raghuram Rajan is correct -- the RBI's monetary response to inflation in the past has been too weak.
It will be difficult for the Indian equity to outperform overall growth to the extent bullish observers expect.
'If the epidemic is sharply contained in a month or two, we have a huge buying opportunity. 'If not, we are staring at a serious economic crisis, the contours of which we are totally unaware of,' warns Debashis Basu.
While the PM sees zero tax on long-term capital gains and dividend income as unfair since the beneficiaries are not poor, he is silent on the fact that rich farmers too don't pay taxes, since farm income is tax-free, a loophole exploited by many netas and babus, says Debashis Basu.
While the black money declarations may go up further once all the online and manual filings of undisclosed assets filed at the end of the four-month window on September 30 are compiled, the government will get this fiscal nearly Rs 14,700 crore or half of the total taxes due.
Along with the US and China, India could be a big enough force in global manufacturing
Brexit will likely put brakes on the UK's growth prospects.
Economist Arvind Panagariya tells Suman Guha Mozumder that the rupee is doing a much-needed clean-up job, raising exports and cutting imports.
Markets taking cue on future rate cuts from RBI policy.
The mergers will not involve any cash but only share swaps
Real reason for crashing gold prices is not Trump victory, says expert.
While players in the financial ecosystem are opening up to the idea of receivables funding for the sector, this market needs a regulator, which a Parliament panel feels only RBI can provide.
The department will impose a penalty, which could be between 30 per cent and 120 per cent.
Equity markets in Pakistan and Bangladesh are tiny compared to the market capitalisation of the Indian equity market.
The S&P BSE Sensex has gained 149 points to open at 25,802.
'What was previously buried in the sands of time now gets buried by the weight of banality,' notes Sreehari Nair.
To make sure liquid schemes reflect the underlying portfolio risks, Sebi has said all debt papers with maturity of 30 days or more to be marked to market. Earlier, fund houses didn't have to do so for securities that had less than 60-day maturity.
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Rumours about a spike in taxes for equity investors are flying thick and fast.
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The inflow of cheap capital has also kept the rupee at a high level, making exports uncompetitive and broadening the current account deficit despite falling oil prices.
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