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‘Our inflationary pressures more acute than those of other countries’

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...
Recent floats fail to ride the rising market tide

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 ...
P-Notes’ share in FII inflows drops to 15 pc from 40 pc in Jan ’08

Monday 5 October '09

Sebi’s move to ease FII norms, bring more transparency does the trick....
‘Asset price rise due to portfolio shift’

Saturday 19 September '09

Though 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:
We’ve successfully integrated Lehman business in India, says Nomura

Saturday 19 September '09

Official says no unusual employee exit after takeover of the failed US financial giant in October 2008....
Gross NPAs rise by 20.8%

Monday 7 September '09

The growth in gross non-performing assets (NPAs) has more than matched the rise in credit offtake in the banking system....
Bank deposits surge, credit growth drops despite rate cuts

Monday 24 August '09

Lower interest rates don’t necessarily mean a rise in loan demand. Even as deposit growth turned bullish, the growth rate in credit...
Economy slows, but bottom lines rise

Monday 10 August '09

The 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.
Foreign firms can issue IDRs

Thursday 23 July '09

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has allowed foreign companies to raise money from the Indian stock markets through Indian Depository Receipts...
Hope makes Sensex dizzy, go over the top

Tuesday 19 May '09

Dalal Street witnessed a mad buying scramble after the UPA’s victory in the Lok Sabha elections with the benchmark BSE Sensex....
RBI policy rates at ’03 level but banks keep lending rates high

Monday 23 March '09

Five 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....
Bear play: Akruti up 107% in a week

Friday 20 March '09

Is it another instance of market manipulation or a bear game gone terribly wrong?
‘Turnaround could take 2-3 years’

Thursday 19 March '09

When compared to the US and other countries, we are relatively better off. We’re not in recession.
India story endures, over 100 new FIIs entered in last six months

Monday 16 March '09

The Sensex has fallen 31.91 per cent and foreign institutional investors have pulled out over $8.35 billion from Indian markets since September 2008....
For D-Street, it was ’04 revisited

Tuesday 17 February '09

It created a sense of deja vu for investors. There were high expectations of tax cuts and another stimulus package...
India’s bourses have hundreds of Satyams

Monday 12 January '09

There’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...
Banks set to gain almost Rs 10,000 cr from CRR cuts

Wednesday 17 December '08

Commercial banks would gain nearly Rs 10,000 crore in a year from the 350 basis points reduction in cash reserve ratio...
Corporate India rushes to buy back shares

Saturday 13 December '08

If 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.
Loans to get cheaper as RBI cuts repo rates again

Sunday 7 December '08

The Reserve Bank of India sent a strong signal to banks to lower interest rates on all types of borrowings by cutting the repo...
Beware of a short-term negative impact on the currency, bourses

Friday 28 November '08

India 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.
Private banks in no hurry to cut rates

Saturday 8 November '08

Private 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.
RBI not keen on bringing down SLR in near future

Monday 27 October '08

The Reserve Bank of India is not in favour of cutting statutory liquidity ratio of commercial banks in the immediate future.
There’s sufficient liquidity in the system now: Subbarao

Saturday 25 October '08

I have no view on that. I believe that the market has its own dynamics and all the Asian markets are down.
BEARS IN FLEA MARKET

Saturday 25 October '08

Joining a savage global equities rout, India’s domestic bourses plunged to their lowest level in nearly three years...
For each billion withdrawn by FIIs, Sensex lost 1,000 pts

Thursday 9 October '08

Bank stocks came under heavy hammering on shattered sentiment for the sector globally.
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