Right now, in Modi's Cabinet and in the BJP, there is no challenge whatsoever to Modi's leadership but even those leaders who have some potential, who the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh can think of backing in an unforeseen circumstance, are fast turning into damaged goods, reports Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com.
Gains were led by index heavyweights with Reliance Industries contributing the most.
The 30-share Sensex ended down 604 points at 28,845 and the 50-share Nifty ended down 181 points at 8,757. The Bank Nifty ended down 602 points at 19,146.
'You can't take money from Shaktikanta Das (the RBI governor) and give it to Nirmala Sitharaman (the Union finance minister). She will blow it away on Modi.'
Growth in the eight core sectors jumped to 8.5% in April, due to a sharp pick-up in refinery products and a commensurate rise in electricity generation.
When big offers hit the market, broader indices corrected 2-4%
This weakness is likely to continue in the near-term.
Housing prices could drop by up to 30% over 6 to 12 months after demonetisation.
Strong gains in metal, energy, auto and power shares lifted the key indices to new highs.
Hawkish guidance by the US Fed raises concerns it could tie the hands of RBI from trimming rates.
In a short span of time, with the help of Amazon, Cloudtail was able to devise a model that could protect it from the vagaries of online retail business.
'The IPO window has been more or less open since the new government in 2014.'
C K Ranganathan, CMD of the $12.50 billion CavinKare, in an interview with Shobha Warrier/Rediff.com, says though he sees signs of improvement everywhere, the Modi government has a long way to go to make the country business friendly
Enabling labour to become more globally mobile can produce higher remittances with powerful 'brain gain' dividends.
Emissions would still keep rising till 2030, and the path towards global warming would improve to 2.7c.
Economist Abheek Barua's insight into the global and domestic economy at the turn of the financial year.
While far from being a currency war, India does not have much of an option but to depreciate to accommodate its exports at a time when China shows its intent to let its currency depreciate.
Finance Minister must be hoping that Indians get over gold-addiction.
'For Modi and Shah, the humiliating setback is bigger than the electoral defeats in New Delhi and in Bihar in 2015.'
'The middle class you can hurt anytime. For revenues, politics, pleasure, anything,' notes Shekhar Gupta.
US economic growth slowed sharply in the fourth quarter.
Analysts said FIIs had created long positions worth Rs 9,700 crore (Rs 97 billion) in index futures till recently.
No other asset increases your wealth the way real estate does, says and if you are looking to make a lucrative investment which will surely give you the returns you deserve, property is the answer, says Saket Mohta.
Bengaluru dominates Karnataka's economy and its infrastructure mess compounds the problems, with policies lagging need and expectations.
Sensex eneded 374 points higher on rate cut expectation from the RBI.
Check out some of the stocks that will react on the basis of their numbers in the near term.
'A broad-based revival of private sector investment was likely in 2018-19 after businesses had successfully made the switch to the GST.'
Sensex plunges 322.39 points to over 1-month closing low of 27,797.01; Nifty tumbles 97.55 points to 8,340.70.
Retail investors may burn their fingers investing in them, especially if the markets correct, experts tell Sanjay Kumar Singh
'Obviously, there is always an argument that a weaker rupee could push up, to some, extent exports.' 'The fact that the rupee has appreciated against the Chinese currency is pushing a lot of Chinese imports into the Indian market.'
Markets extended gains led by financials and capital goods shares coupled with a rebound in IT shares.
Shares of Sahara Housingfina Corporation on Monday fell 4.39 per cent on the BSE after Sahara chief Subrata Roy was arrested by the Lucknow police.
Sebi asked to reconsider open offer nod as KFA was identified as wilful defaulter.
If Modi wants to be a man of history, he must make hard choices that will pay off down the road, says T N Ninan.
Mitron probably would have continued with the free run for quite some time, had it not come to light that the source code of the app was actually developed by a Pakistani developer, reports Neha Alawadhi.
The govt has a lot more to do then just open bank accounts for the poor in the Jan Dhan scheme.
India's GDP growth quickened to 7.4 per cent in the September.
In a bear market, prices may be irrationally depressed. In that case, an investor can identify mis-pricing, invest with a safety margin and wait. Since values are low, the risk is also low.
Chinese govt has itself to blame for first trying to slow down the property market and later propping it up.
Since 2000-01, the Indian economy has shown the tendency of being unable to absorb all domestic savings as investments.
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