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'There is no need to do anything, let your SIPs get deducted every month, and stick to your allocation between equity, fixed income and emergency funds and your risk covers.'
Production grew by a mere 0.5 per cent year-on-year, a significant comedown from the 3.5 per cent clocked in June.
Apart from the growing adoption of the internet in the country, brands are drawn to the agility of the medium, its targeted and data driven approach and the increasing cost of offline channels for sales and distribution.
Consolidation is the prime mood of the Indian equity market at the moment.
100-day agenda: Commerce ministry pushes for separate logistics department
Stagnant coal production and a slowdown in power, cement and steel sectors lowered overall infrastructure growth to 5.1 per cent in May 2006 as compared to 8.1 per cent in the same month last fiscal.
The broadening of the market rally sends the signal that growth will be broad-based, observes Akash Prakash.
Growth in six core infrastructure industries, which have a combined weight of 26.7 per cent in the Index of Industrial Production
Analysts worry about possible loan waiver.
Pulled down by deceleration in crude oil production, refined petroleum products, coal and electricity, India's infrastructure industry index reported a 0.6 per cent contraction in February this year as compared to a whopping 12.2 per cent growth a ye
'What did we get out of this agitation? Nothing... Now we feel it was all a mistake. We have no work, and our land has turned infertile. We are living in abject poverty'
Infrastructure sector growth fell by 1 per cent to 5 per cent in November 2004 as compared to the year-ago period, mainly due to the slowdown in growth of petroleum refining, electricity generation and production of finished steel.
For the April-November period of the current fiscal, the growth for the key sectors, including steel, cement, power, crude petroleum and refinery products, dropped to six per cent from 8.9 per cent
Pulled down by a poor show in crude oil and refining sectors, infrastructure growth in May 2005 slowed down to 5.6 per cent compared to 6.7 per cent in the same month a year ago.
While crude oil production rose 5.8 per cent in May against a negative growth of 4.3 per cent in the same month last year, finished steel grew slightly lower at 2.5 per cent against 2.8 per cent in the same month last year, an official statement said on Monday.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
The GDP slumped to a three-year low lagging China for the second straight quarter -- as manufacturing slowed ahead of the GST launch amid demonetisation effect.
India's core sector, which comprises six key infrastructure industries, grew 6 per cent in December, compared with 5.3 per cent growth in the previous month. The growth, signifying a recovery in industrial manufacturing, was primarily led by an increase in the production of finished steel, cement and electricity last month.
'Growth would have to be 7% in the October-March period, if the year as a whole is to clock 6%.' 'Who would bet on that when, in the world of real numbers, both exports and imports have continued to fall, car sales have continued to slump, and the industrial production index shows yet again a drop in output?', asks T N Ninan.
The financial year ending Saturday saw such big-ticket events that set the directional tone for the country's business journey.
The growth of eight core sectors slowed down to 2.6 per cent in August mainly due to contraction in steel output.
India's sourcing from China may not necessarily be for cost-effectiveness alone but also for the lack of domestic qualified bidders, technology or other know-how.
The core infrastructure industries, which comprises crude oil, petroleum refinery products, coal, electricity, cement and finished carbon steel - had registered negative growth for the first time in 15 years in October 2008 and then again contracted in December. The core sector accounts for 26.7 per cent of the Index of Industrial Production and the numbers signal where the economy is headed.
Steel and petroleum refinery products turned the table by expanding 11.7 per cent and 4.9 per cent respectively in November, 2009.
Whatever its apprehensions and concerns about the regime of the Rajapaksa clan, India must be ready with unconditional assistance when Colombo asks for it. Because it will, observes Aditi Phadnis.
Markets gained for the fifth straight session to end the customary 'Muhurat' trading session held to usher in the new year Samvat 2071 on a firm note post the slew of reforms announced by the government over the past few days.
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There are actually great similarities between the two PM
'We don't expect any immediate impact on salaried jobs.'
'Since the growth is not fast enough to provide jobs for the young, the fallout will be political and social,' warns T N Ninan.
Factory output in June likely rose 5.4 per cent from a year earlier, faster than the 4.7 per cent growth in May, according to a poll of 27 economists.
Led by poor performance in the crude oil production, key infrastructure sector continued to present a grim picture with its June growth plummeting to 4.7 per cent, thus translating into a lower growth of 4.1 per cent in the first quarter of this year
The Indian indices also offer one of the lowest dividend yields.
Only luxury and 'sin' items could be left in highest slab. 12 and 18 per cent slabs could be merged in the future
'Investors should be careful in getting carried away; although a reversal of IPO frenzy this time is taking longer than in the past.'
The Aditya Birla Group company has already spent over Rs 3,000 crore on projects to take its production capacity from 17 million tonnes to 21.9 mt and plans to further scale up till 23.1 mt by June-end. K C Birla, chief financial officer, said, "We will continue to maintain our market share and, if required, we will go ahead with more capacity additions to ensure we don't become a loser in the market."
Industrial production in November was expected to grow 1.0 per cent from a year earlier, after shrinking 1.8 per cent in October, according to the median consensus of 20 economists.
What is driving the digital-first approach of traditional, legacy brands? Apart from the growing adoption of the internet in the country, brands are drawn to the agility of the medium.
These sectors are seeing a marked slowdown, as consumers are postponing purchase decisions amid uncertainty and severe cash crunch, report Ram Prasad Sahu, Sheetal Agarwal & Ujjval Jauhari from Mumbai.
