Moody's earlier this week lowered its growth forecast to 7 per cent, from 7.5 per cent.
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India's share of 2015 emerging market allocations will be driven by FII perceptions on likely growth and reform.
Taking advantage of the indifference of passengers, the Indian Railways routinely indulges in several unfair trade practices, says S Pushpavanam.
In the near term, two key factors are the outcome of the monsoon season in respect to cropping yields; and the correction in the crude oil price.
The Indian economy's election-year syndrome cannot be ignored, says A K Bhattacharya.
Sahil Kapoor of Edelweiss Retail Capital Market Research says that setting up a monetary policy committee should have been the first step. And the central bank could have moved towards a formal inflation targeting mechanism after the processes and data sets are in place.
The long-term growth perspective or potential for India is one of the highest in the Asia Pacific region.
RBI's out-of-turn rate cut has surprise few economists.
Armed with deep customer knowledge, low operational overheads, new funding opportunities and help from online marketplaces, the local brand is turning David to every Goliath that steps into its neighbourhood, says T E Narasimhan.
Amazon's investors are counting on its international business and expansion to help drive growth and support its $165 billion market value, one of the highest among US firms.
The 30-share Sensex lost 12 points to end at 29,559 and the 50-share Nifty climbed 4 points to close at 8,914.
PC shipments declined by 10.9 per cent to 76 million units in second quarter of 2013 from 85.32 million units in the same period last year, preliminary data by Gartner said.
Industries with the highest number of top-rated companies at risk were hospitality/travel, media and entertainment, retail, financial services and consumer goods/manufacturing
Corporate indebtedness is now twice what it was before the global financial crisis; banks' bad loans ratio is 3.5 times higher.
To the extent that monetary variables affect investment, the weather, thus, looks far less clement.
Reducing policy rates is not enough. The key is to ensure banks lend to credit-constrained borrowers.
Rbi cut rates for teh third time to ease economic situation.
As global markets near all-time highs driven by liquidity, Marc Faber suggests most asset prices worldwide are inflated.
Distress sales, market closures and anchoring of fishing fleets have been reported from West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
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While funds will not be a constraint, the challenge for Aasaanjobs will be to reach out to people with no internet, says M Saraswathy.
Phony NFL merchandise and tickets worth $21.6 million have been seized and 50 people arrested in a crackdown on counterfeiting ahead of this weekend's Super Bowl, U.S. law enforcement officials said on Thursday.
Expect more volatility in the coming year as the economy and markets price in the demonetisation drive.
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The 30-share Sensex lost 22 points to close at 27,090 and the 50-share Nifty gained 7 points to end at 8,121.
GIFT is a financial centre almost entirely devoid of bankers and, indeed, of people.
Jet's advertising and that of most other airlines has been limited to new routes or promotional fares.
Facebook, Airbnb, Paytm, eBay join the film's cast of brands, look to connect with young audiences.
Sensex is under pressure due to concerns in the global market.
Many things are going unnoticed by India watchers.
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'We are in the reverse gear and we are not there anywhere compared to the rest of the world'
Start-ups have begun looking at ways to conserve cash.
"Our artificial intelligence tells us what people are buying at that point, what is in fashion; on the other hand, we have a fair idea of the material available. It gives us a sense of what we should be putting across in the market and we can put them across really quickly," Ananth Narayanan, CEO, Myntra, tells Alokananda Chakraborty.
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Capital goods, IT, auto and pharmaceuticals lead gains for the financial year
Users send a message on the app and a virtual assistant responds.
Ambani said, in the telecom space, the focus will be on debt reduction, and the virtual merger did away with the need for major capex and will help towards this
'As they come in contact with more people in their professional life, they will need to uncover even more opportunities for growth.'
