With Indian infrastructure companies burdened with debt, global PE funds and developers sense an opportunity to buy the airports cheap
Shane Oliver, Head-Investment Strategy at AMP Capital Investors, believes that higher US labour cost has fuelled rate hike fears again. According to him, the Fed may have finished with its rate hike cycle.
French stocks, particularly those exposed to the country's large tourism sector, are likely to suffer the biggest falls
FIIs pump in $1.4 billion in March, after pulling out $2.9 billion in Jan-Feb.
Scrapping Plan and non-Plan classifications necessitates the change
The Union finance ministry has asked field officers of the income tax department to not be adversarial to assessees, and to not send high-pitched demands without a proper basis.
They have put in $14 billion so far in 2014 but this could get slower if the US Fed raises rates; however, there are expectations on compensatory flows.
In the past two weeks China has cut interest rates.
In India, bond yields have fallen nearly 70 basis points in the last one year.
Election results, diesel & gas pricing moves, labour law changes - all stoke anticipation of more cheer ahead.
APAs are part of govt's aim to move to a non-adversarial tax regime.
Higher crude oil prices also translate into better corporate earnings for India's top companies
The year 2014-15 could well go as one of long-pending financial sector reforms, expected to have a lasting impact.
Those scheduled to attend the five-day WEF Annual meeting, beginning January 21, include more than 40 heads of state or government, including those from the UK, Australia, Japan, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Brazil, Italy, Mauritius, Republic of Korea and Switzerland, WEF announced on Wednesday at a press conference in Geneva.