Analysts attribute this fall to the recent moderation in energy (mainly crude oil) and commodity prices, lowering of input costs for companies in sectors such as FMCG, consumer durables, and automobiles, reports Krishna Kant.
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The gains in the rupee masked a rising sense of caution across markets ahead of the results of elections in several states. Delhi was the latest to hold assembly elections on Wednesday.
The rupee resumed lower at 61.15 per dollar as against the last weekend's level of 61.07 at the Interbank Foreign Exchange market and hovered in the range of 61.15 and 61.28 before quoting at 61.24 per dollar at 1030 hours.
'This is for the first time home loan rates have dropped below 7 per cent,' notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Officials of 17 banks which gave loan to Kingfisher Airlines and UB Group are also under the agency's scanner
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The branch is likely to be inaugurated on Saturday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a three-day visit to China
Mallya is separately fighting extradition to India on fraud and money laundering charges worth an estimated Rs 9,000 crore
Forex dealers said besides selling of the American currency by exporters and banks, gains in other Asian currencies against the dollar and a higher opening in the domestic stock market also supported the rupee.
As a multi-disciplinary organisation, SFIO probes cases of financial frauds that are referred to it by Corporate Affairs Ministry
Whether the rupee can regain that momentum will largely depend on foreign investors, who have been net buyers of more than $2 billion in shares over the previous 20 sessions and of $2.3 billion in bonds in March.
The cumulative loss of 20 state-run lenders stood at Rs 14,000 crore during Q4
Amid slowdown blues, the government has unveiled a raft of measures over the past few months aimed at improving liquidity in the system, moderating interest rates as well as credit growth apart from addressing stress in the NBFC sector.
In New York, the dollar edged down against the yen for the first time in three sessions as investors weighed economic data and remarks from outgoing Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
Of the total 53,334 cases of frauds reported during 2008-09 and 2018-19 fiscal years, involving a whopping Rs 2.05 lakh crore, a highest of 6,811 cases were reported by the ICICI Bank.
I-T will now ask the company to produce documents and validate the source of the recovered cash.
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SBI has the highest exposure of Rs 1,600 crore to the beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines.
As many as 142 stocks from the S&P BSE500 index are currently trading below their level of May 12, 2014
According to sources, Kingfisher Airlines allegedly diverted funds by opening a current account in HDFC Bank and had a balance of Rs 7.5 crore (Rs 75 million) as on date.
Though most experts remain bullish on the banking space, they suggest investors buy only those banks whose NPAs are at a manageable level of 3% to 4% and there is credit growth or earnings visibility.
The RBI also looked into the effectiveness of systems and processes for implementation of KYC norms
The consortium led by SBI has also initiated the process of recovery.
This is the first tranche of capital infusion for the fiscal and more funds would be provided in future depending upon the performance of PSU banks.
Why doesn't anybody ask the PSU State Bank of India under RTI on how much they are spending on legal fees trying to recover money from me in the UK when I have offered 100 per cent payback in India, asked Mallya.
In areas bordering Bangladesh, some have received strikingly high deposits in Jan Dhan accounts, said sources.
The rupee had surged 37 paise to end at a nine-month high of 59.68 against the dollar on Tuesday. Forex market remained closed on Wednesday for 'Buddha Purnima'.
RBI may also be open to injecting liquidity through open market purchases of bonds but is resisting relaxing capital buffers for banks.
Vijay Mallya left India on March 2, presumably for London.
Analysts, however, said the timing of the infusion was good.
Total scam in collusion with middlemen is estimated at over Rs 700 crore. Probe is on in 10 more cases.
'Investors should not commit fresh money to these stocks right now, unless they can hold for the next three to four years.'
The mergers will not involve any cash but only share swaps
If struggling with dealing with queues of people asking for new notes wasn't enough, banks are now facing the challenge of storing the old notes in their strong rooms.
Tag for defaults on nearly Rs 7,000 cr loans to long-grounded Kingfisher Airlines
The rupee had revisited the near 2-month low of 60.55 per dollar earlier in the session.
The order grants permission to the UK High Court Enforcement Officer to enter the 62-year-old tycoon's properties in Hertfordshire, near London.
'The snakes and ladders game will continue till the consolidation process is complete simply because we don't know how bad the scene is, with some of the banks being merged,' says Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
The total quantum of non-performing assets in the Indian banking system increased to Rs 7.33 trillion as of June 2017, from Rs 2.75 trillion in March 2015.
