From vehicle sales taking a beating in August to Jet Airways' plans to resume service by early 2022, Business Standard brings you the top headlines at this hour
Except crude oil, 7 sectors have shown an uptick YoY
Economists say revival will hinge on govt spending, policy support
Bharti Airtel (up 6.7 per cent) was the biggest gainer on the Sensex today, followed by Bajaj Finance, Bajaj Finserv, Asian Paints, TCS, Titan, and Tech Mahindra
The growth was projected on a low base of 24.4 per cent contraction in the gross domestic product in Q4 of the previous financial year.
The government looks to increase contribution of automobile sector to India's GDP to 12 per cent from the present 7.1 per cent and grow employment generation to 50 million from the current 37 million
The country's gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow at around 18.5 per cent with an upward bias in the first quarter of the current financial year, according to SBI research report Ecowrap
Covid-19 remains an overhang on the near-term growth outlook of Asia and lockdown measures are constraining consumption growth, Morgan Stanley said on Friday.Strength in exports and capex has lifted Asia's overall GDP closer to its pre-Covid path, but consumption remains below its pre-Covid path, it said in a research report titled 'The Viewpoint: The Next Phase in Asia's Recovery' authored by Chetan Ahya, Derrick Y Kam and Jonathan Cheung.However, the report forecast vaccination rates for adult population reaching 80 per cent or higher in 10 out of 12 economies (accounting for 95 per cent of the region's GDP) in the region by 4Q21."These high rates of vaccinations will allow policymakers to shift their Covid management strategy and allow restrictions to be relaxed, which we expect in turn lead to a full-fledged recovery in growth from early next year."Powered by all its engines, said the report, Asia's growth momentum should improve in the coming quarters. GDP levels will exceed ...
It cautioned that the organised sector is expected to have gained at the cost of the less formal space during the first quarter of the current financial year
The GDP growth is estimated to come at the "deceptively high" level of 20 per cent for the Apr-Jun 2021 quarter but is far below the same in the pre-COVID times, rating agency Icra said on Wednesday
A step jump in medium-term growth rates, of the kind projected, needs all four engines of the economy to be firing. But the govt seems to have bet on just two, writes T N Ninan
Live updates: Monetary policy committee's decisions being read out by RBI governor Shaktikanta Das
This was the seventh consecutive occasion when the central bank maintained a status quo on policy rates
The RBI on Friday retained the real GDP growth projection at 9.5 per cent for 2021-22 as domestic economic activity has started normalising with the ebbing of the second wave of the virus
The temporary supply shocks that have led to higher inflation has been kept aside by the MPC while focusing on growth
The government informed Parliament that it expects the total debt as percentage of GDP to increase to 61.7 per cent (provisional) in 2021-22 from 60.5 per cent (provisional) in the previous fiscal.
Historical analysis shows that the government tends to underestimate the growth in agriculture every year; as growth has slipped in the last few years, it has fallen prey to overestimation errors
This is lower than an earlier estimate of 10.1 per cent
Motilal Oswal Financial Services has projected real GDP growth of 8.7 per cent in FY22, down from 11.1 per cent it had forecast earlier
Hard-hearted as it may sound, there is no correlation between the loss of lives and national output