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Earnings of India's top 500 companies growing faster than US peers'

BSE500 companies' combined revenue growth, however, lagged S&P 500 firms' during trailing 12 months ended Dec 2023

Monetary policy review: RBI rejigs quarterly GDP growth forecasts for FY25

Rural demand catching up, consumption expected to support economic growth in FY25, says RBI governor

Need huge pool of company secretaries to manage capital flow: ICSI chief

As the Indian economy progresses towards the USD 5 trillion target over the next two years and the USD 10 trillion target by 2030, the demand for company secretaries will be tremendous to manage the inflow of capital both from the Indian and international investors, a top domain expert said on Friday. "We have to increase the pool of Company Secretaries (CS) to 95,000 by 2030 and to 1.4 lakh by 2047, the year of Viksit Bharat economy driven by capital flow and the government-initiated infrastructure development, B Narasimhan, President of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI), said here. Currently, ICSI has around 70,000 CS members and over 2 lakh students, he told PTI. Narasimhan gave an insight into the aspects resonating with the Indian economy. We, as CS, are the most recognised profession in the capital market, handling compliances across the board of listed and unlisted companies. SEBI has appointed us as the compliance offices and it is mandatory, he said. Ca

RBI MPC keeps repo rate at 6.5%; projects GDP growth at 7% for FY25

PM Modi sets ambitious India economic goals for probable third term

For the next six years, Modi's goal is to raise per capita income to $4,418 from around $2,500, the document says, without specifying the spending or reforms needed to achieve that

Morgan Stanley raises India's GDP growth forecast for FY25 to 6.8%

Morgan Stanley expects India's GDP growth to remain robust, with an anticipated growth rate of around seven per cent in the fourth quarter of FY24

Growth of 7% perfectly good unless external enviorment improves: Sanyal

India should be satisfied with the current growth rate unless the external environment improves, Member of Economic Advisory Council to the PM, Sanjeev Sanyal, said on Wednesday, terming economic expansion in the range of 7 per cent perfectly good. Sanyal further said it was necessary to protect the hard-earned macroeconomic stability. "Now look, it is possible for us to hit double-digit growth, but I would actually be rather careful about it. This whole game is about compounding growth," Sanyal said while speaking at the Times Now Summit. India's economy grew at better-than-expected 8.4 per cent in the final three months of 2023, logging the fastest pace in the past one-and-a-half years. The growth rate in October-December helped take the estimate for the current fiscal to 7.6 per cent. "We should not attempt to grow this economy by anything more than what it is growing now. "If the external environment does not dramatically improve, because what will happen then, is that our ...

India's current account deficit narrowed to 1.2% of GDP in Q3: RBI data

Services exports grew due to rising software exports, business and travel services

S&P Global Ratings raises India's GDP growth forecast for FY25 to 6.8%

'India likely to see rate cuts of up to 75 basis points in calendar year 2024'

S&P Global raises India's FY25 GDP growth forecast by 40 bps to 6.8%

Agency's projection is lower than the Reserve Bank of India's and the government's growth estimate of 7%

India's Q3 GDP numbers are 'absolutely mystifying': Arvind Subramanian

Former chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian on Friday said India's latest GDP numbers are 'absolutely mystifying' and difficult to comprehend. India's economy grew by better-than-expected 8.4 per cent in the final three months of 2023 - the fastest pace in one-and-half years. "I want to be honest with you that the latest GDP numbers, I just simply can not understand them. "I say that with genuine respect and things. They are absolutely mystifying. They don't add up. I don't know what they mean," Subramanian said while speaking at the India Today conclave. The NSO has also revised GDP estimates for the first and second quarters of this fiscal to 8.2 per cent and 8.1 per cent from 7.8 per cent and 7.6 per cent, respectively. Elaborating further, Subramanian said while the implied inflation in these numbers is 1 to 1.5 per cent, actual inflation in the economy is somewhere between 3 and 5 per cent. "The economy is growing at seven and a half per cent, even though private consum

Fitch Ratings ups GDP growth forecast to 7% for FY25 on demand push

It expects 50 bps rate cut by RBI in the second half of 2024

Fitch raises GDP growth estimates for FY24, FY25, tempers view on rate cuts

The RBI has kept the repo rate unchanged at 6.50% for the last six consecutive meetings and has reiterated its commitment to reaching the 4% inflation target on a sustainable basis

Saudi Arabia attracts $13 bn private sector investment in tourism industry

'The current GDP contribution is 4.5% and we aim to get that to 10% by 2030,' she said in an interview. 'We started from 3.2% when we opened up for tourism.'

Japan's Q4 GDP revised up to slight expansion, economy avoids recession

On a quarter-on-quarter basis, GDP grew 0.1%, compared with the initial reading of a drop of 0.1.% drop and a median forecast for a 0.3% rise

CRISIL raises India's GDP growth forecast to 6.8% from 6.4% for FY25

On the inflation front, Crisil expects softening to continue in the next fiscal on the back of healthier agriculture output that tames food inflation, and benign oil and commodity prices

India likely to grow at 10% for 10-20 years: Deloitte's Romal Shetty

He urged investors to grab the opportunity India's rapid growth offers

Closing gender gap could lift global GDP more than 20%, says World Bank

The report said obstacles that women face in entering the global workforce included barriers to starting businesses, persistent pay gaps and bans on working at night or in jobs deemed 'dangerous'

How realtor wove $12 billion tapestry of fraud - the biggest in Vietnam

The country's largest-ever fraud case is among a slew of high-profile proceedings following from the Communist Party of Vietnam's crackdown on corruption

Day after Q3 GDP surprise, analysts raise growth forecast for FY25

SBI projected the Indian economy to grow at 8 per cent in FY25