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Amid liquidity and inflation concerns, government's market borowings have come down by 21 per cent to Rs 85,000 crore (Rs 850 billion) till November 25 this fiscal.
Business is down to such an extent that last year these firms could not even meet RBI's capital norm of Rs 50 million for partnerships and Rs 100 million for public and private firms in this line of business.
With RBI's repo rate cut and strong macroeconomic fundamentals like benign inflation, strong forex reserves and stable rupee, GDP growth is expected to be higher and interest rates are poised to touch new lows, PNB Gilts has said.
State Bank of India (SBI) on Wednesday reduced interest rates on loans for car and consumer durables and also decided to lower processing charges to cash in on the festival season demand.
In her judgment handed down at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Justice Ingrid Simler concluded there are "substantial grounds" to believe that the 48-year-old fugitive diamantaire would fail to surrender as he does possess the means to "abscond".
These firms are Avenue Supermarts, owner and operator of supermarket retail chain D-Mart; Music Broadcast Ltd, a Jagran group firm that runs Radio City FM channel; Shankara Building Product; BSE-promoted CDSL; and test-prep player C L Educate.
Grounded Kingfisher Airlines has written to UCO Bank wanting to know the basis of attaching the 'wilful defaulter' tag on the carrier.
If the absconding jeweller is traced in Britain, the extradition request to the UK government could follow a similar course as the case of embattled liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya
Jitender Pal Singh scored a brace as India beat Malaysia 4-2 in the Junior Test series between the countries.
The government is expected to raise Rs 5,000 crore (Rs 50 billion) in the first week of February even as market borrowing declined 27 per cent to Rs 96,000 crore (Rs 960 billion) till January 20, 2005.
The BSE Sensex gained 104.63 points to end at 33,147.13, while the broader Nifty spurted 48.45 points to finish at 10,343.80.
Auto stocks are weighing on the indices.
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Implying that the Centre's finances were comfortable and fiscal situation was set to improve, the government's gross borrowings fell by over 4 per cent to Rs 93,030 crore till September 20, PNB Gilts said on Tuesday.
US-Iraq war fears may affect the sentiments in gilts market despite India's strong fundamentals and smooth sailing of the government's market borrowing now at Rs 1,34,036 crore (Rs 1,340.36 billion), PNB Gilts warned
Aavas is turning heads in the country's mortgage financing space because it selected to do business in a different way, says Mudar Patherya.
Canara Bank topped the list recovering Rs 638.41 crore (Rs 6.38 billion) from non-performing assets of the total Rs 4,420 crore (Rs 44.2 billion) recovered by 19 nationalised banks by taking advantage of securitisation laws in the last fiscal.
The wider NSE Nifty touched a low of 10,652.40 before finishing at 10,671.40, showing a loss of 97.75 points, or 0.91 per cent.
The O P Jindal Group company Jindal Steel and Power has begun talks with the State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank and Canara Bank for financing its Rs 550 crore (Rs 5.50 billion) expansion plan.
The association also wondered how the brand value of Kingfisher was considered as a collateral while sanctioning a loan, and alleged that even when RBI knew that this was a "deliberate default", no action was taken by the banks.
He also sought to know if Modi, during his recent meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, asked the latter about the 2017 Doklam standoff.
The Centre's gross borrowing crossed Rs 1,62,000 crore (Rs 1,620 billion) as bond market turned bullish after a fall in price level in the country last week.
Soaring redemptions of government securities and 364-day treasury bills resulted in a 2.33 per cent fall in net borrowings of the Centre at Rs 91,821 crore (Rs 918.21 billion) till January 9, according to PNB Gilts.
Banks and bond dealers expect RBI to slash its bank rate by 0.50 per cent and reduce repo rate by 0.25-0.50 per cent in the forthcoming busy season credit policy, going by the excess liquidity and lower yield on government papers.
Most NBFCs will have to slow down their loan growth. Some of the most leveraged will have to sell a part of their assets (or loan book) to banks to raise incremental capital. Others may have to knock on the door of their deep-pocketed parents.
The Centre's net borrowings stood at Rs 61,318 crore (Rs 613.18 billion) till August 8, completing 57.2 per cent of the budgeted Rs 1,07,194 crore (Rs 1,071.94 billion) for this financial year, PNB Gilts said in New Delhi on Tuesday.
The government's gross borrowings were down by near nine per cent to Rs 51,001 crore (Rs 510.01 billion) till June 27 as against the same period last year, even as there was a 10 per cent rise in redemptions, PNB Gilts said.
Centre's gross borrowings stood at Rs 50,001 crore (Rs 500.01 billion) till June 13, down by over nine per cent from Rs 55,001 crore (Rs 550.01 billion) in the previous year, indicating fiscal prudence, PNB Gilts said.
Experts interviewed CMDs of nine public sector banks on Friday and Kamath is believed to be in the reckoning
In the 52 newly listed companies since 2014, fund managers have a total investment of a mere 2.5 per cent of their assets under management.
Bank stocks took a hammering today as the Centre said it was not in its policy to take back its equity from public sector banks at par value.
Ajit Mishra, Vice President, Research, Religare Broking, answers readers' queries on stocks they own or want to buy.
Banking PSU stocks made a brave comeback on Monday after succumbing to losses Friday following the Union Budget's ignoring a long-standing demand by the sector on FDI limits.
Canara Bank on Wednesday announced 0.5-0.75 per cent cut in housing loans rates to 8.5-9.25 per cent with monthly installment payments coming down to Rs 911 per lakh for 20-year loan from February.
The Congress chief alleged that in the 2016 demonetisation exercise, black money became white, nobody went to jail and contrary to the BJP's promise, no one received Rs 15 lakh in their bank account.
The Swaraj India chief alleged that the raid was conducted at his sisters' hospital-cum-nursing home premises with an intent to "intimidate" and "silence" him as he had launched an agitation for fair crop price for farmers and against liquor shops in that city in Haryana.
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