Inflation trajectory does not match the slump in demand, prolonged pause on rates likely.
It is only 'zero-cost' money from FPIs that is keeping the market afloat
A collapse in global oil prices has unleashed a wave of monetary easing.
Taxes on health, excluding medicines, could rise from 8.8 per cent currently, to around 13.6 per cent - an increase of 4.8 per cent.
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Says high inflation has to be reversed to achieve sustainable GDP expansion.
Demonetisation impact, earnings growth, central bank policies will get attention.
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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.
Economic recovery in US, euro zone help; new orders sub-index at 52.4
A three-year validity of an inflation target is, perhaps, more reasonable and practicable.
The Reserve Bank on Tuesday cautioned that continued uncertainty over monsoon could stoke food inflation, but expressed the hope that government policies will improve supplies in the coming months.
January inflation may undershoot RBI's 6% target.
RBI will cut rates in its next policy announcement on June 2.
The American brokerage firm said it expects the rate cut to happen only in December if the monsoons normalise to cool down inflation or early 2015 in case prices rise prolongs.
The RBI has targeted 6 percent inflation by January 2016
Key macroeconomic indicators suggest softening industrial growth.
'Retail investors have been selling since the Budget and Foreign Portfolio Investors started selling.' 'Thus far, domestic institutions have picked up the slack, buying enough to keep the major indices from falling off a cliff.' 'However, there has been carnage in smaller stocks and the financial sector has been hit much harder than the major market indices,' points out Devangshu Datta.
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As on Monday, the prices of many vegetables had fallen as much as 50% compared with those a month before, due to increased supply, following the arrival of winter crops in the markets.
Trouble at a single bank among the top five most connected lenders could wipe out nearly 50% of Tier I capital
The price of ensuring no disruption after rolling out the GST seems to be an imperfect GST with many relaxations in its compliance norms, says A K Bhattacharya.
However, RBI would continue to nudge banks to cut lending rates
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In a surprise move, the Reserve Bank on Wednesday left the repo rate unchanged at 7.75 per cent, while the cash reserve ratio too is retained at 4 per cent.
The rupee had revisited the near 2-month low of 60.55 per dollar earlier in the session.
The HSBC/Markit Purchasing Managers Index for the services industry inched up to 47.2 in November from 47.1 in October, the fifth sub-50.0 reading and indicated an output contraction across the Indian service economy.
RBI projects GDP growth in FY16 at 7.8 per cent, 30 bps higher than FY15. However, this comes with a downward bias.
Inflation indexed bonds assure a positive return over inflation.
He will presumably choose to remain true to the framework he has put in place.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is expected to hold its policy interest rate at 6.75 per cent next week to stifle inflation.
Over the past few months, macro parameters have improved.
The RBI must first deal with the adverse turn of events in the CPI.
India's annual industrial output grew at a slower-than-expected pace of 3.6 percent in September.
The change from wholesale to retail inflation as an anchor means that the weightage of diesel in inflation has decreased
Reiterating his earlier stance, BJP's Rajya Sabha member Subramanian Swamy has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking him to sack RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan.
Lower fuel subsidy payouts might restrict gross fiscal deficit in FY15.
It can be noted that according to official estimates, GDP growth in FY14 is expected to come in at 4.9 per cent, up from 4.5 per cent in FY13, Icra said.
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