

Wednesday 28 October '09
After initiating the first phase of the exit from an easy monetary regime on Tuesday, RBI governor D SUBBARAO said the central bank...Wednesday 14 October '09
The Sensex has zoomed by 2,000 points to the 17,000 level in the last three months but that doesn’t seem to have helped most initial public ...Monday
5 October '09Sebi’s move to ease FII norms, bring more transparency does the trick....Saturday
19 September '09Though the markets have been soaring, JP Morgan India chief economist JAHANGIR AZIZ doesn’t think that an asset bubble is building. In an interview with George Mathew, he also ruled out any move by the RBI to tighten the monetary policy in October. Any such move would seriously jeopardize the incipient recovery, he said. Excerpts:Saturday
19 September '09Official says no unusual employee exit after takeover of the failed US financial giant in October 2008....Monday
7 September '09The growth in gross non-performing assets (NPAs) has more than matched the rise in credit offtake in the banking system....Monday
24 August '09Lower interest rates don’t necessarily mean a rise in loan demand. Even as deposit growth turned bullish, the growth rate in credit...Monday
10 August '09The economic growth has slowed down to six per cent levels from nine per cent in 2007-08. Even the industrial production index is also down.Thursday
23 July '09The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has allowed foreign companies to raise money from the Indian stock markets through Indian Depository Receipts...Tuesday
19 May '09Dalal Street witnessed a mad buying scramble after the UPA’s victory in the Lok Sabha elections with the benchmark BSE Sensex....Monday
23 March '09Five years ago, in November 2003, ICICI Bank was offering home loans at 7.5 per cent interest rate. That was the time when key policy rates of the Reserve Bank of India....Friday
20 March '09Is it another instance of market manipulation or a bear game gone terribly wrong?Thursday
19 March '09When compared to the US and other countries, we are relatively better off. We’re not in recession.Monday
16 March '09The Sensex has fallen 31.91 per cent and foreign institutional investors have pulled out over $8.35 billion from Indian markets since September 2008....Tuesday
17 February '09It created a sense of deja vu for investors. There were high expectations of tax cuts and another stimulus package...Monday
12 January '09There’re hundreds of Satyams listed on the stock exchanges. Good coporate governance seems to be last in the priority list as over 1,200 companies...Wednesday
17 December '08Commercial banks would gain nearly Rs 10,000 crore in a year from the 350 basis points reduction in cash reserve ratio...Saturday
13 December '08If there’s a perfect time to launch a share buyback, it’s now. Listed companies are making use of low valuations in the stock market to buy back their own shares.Sunday
7 December '08The Reserve Bank of India sent a strong signal to banks to lower interest rates on all types of borrowings by cutting the repo...Friday
28 November '08India Inc and financial experts said there could be a short-term negative impact on the currency and stock exchange as well as a slowdown in tourist arrivals but that such effects would recede with time if there were no further terror attacks.Saturday
8 November '08Private banks are not in a tearing hurry to bring down interest rates with credit offtake shooting up by 29 per cent and flow of deposits virtually drying up.Monday
27 October '08The Reserve Bank of India is not in favour of cutting statutory liquidity ratio of commercial banks in the immediate future.Saturday
25 October '08I have no view on that. I believe that the market has its own dynamics and all the Asian markets are down.Saturday
25 October '08Joining a savage global equities rout, India’s domestic bourses plunged to their lowest level in nearly three years...Thursday
9 October '08Bank stocks came under heavy hammering on shattered sentiment for the sector globally.