Good pay hikes, positive macroeconomic factors and the taming of inflation have had a positive effect on purchases
RBI may hold rates steady as economic parametes are going strong, say experts.
Also on the anvil is abolition of distinction between Plan and non-Plan expenditure and replacing it with capital and revenue expenditure
Fear factors weights on markets, Sensex, Nifty struggle to keep pace.
Expectations that the shutdown will hurt the economy and prompt the Federal Reserve to postpone the start of its withdrawal of monetary stimulus weighed on the US currency.
Giants like Pepsi and Coke are fast losing shelf-space to healthier, functional options.
The majority have stayed away from getting into cash handling.
Japan's economy unexpectedly slipped into recession in the third quarter, setting the stage for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to delay an unpopular sales tax hike and call a snap election half-way through his term.
The GST will replace more than a dozen levies central and state levies, including central excise duty, service tax and central sales tax as well as VAT on sale of goods and entry tax, to make movement of goods seamless across 1.3 billion market.
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