Spending space available without pressure to their fiscal profile, says agency
Three decades have been benign for global equities, but that time is now changing
Although China's debt to GDP ratio is projected to remain at 76.9 in 2022, it is projected to overtake India's ratio in 2024 at 89.8 and continue to increase further to 102.8 in 2027
Higher global borrowing costs are expected to affect growth prospects
Sabnavis said the progress till August shows that the government's accounts are on course compared with last year
The authorities have already started to track the imports of select products, including electronics. However, a final decision is still to be made
CPI inflation for the current financial year is seen at 6.7%, with the price gauge seen at 7.1% in July-September
RBI Monetary Policy Live update: This would be the fourth hike in the policy repo rate by the Reserve Bank of India, which is currently at 5.4%
Analysts peg full-year figure at $120 bn, but say it will be lower as proportion of GDP than FY13 levels
CAD is expected to hit a decadal high of 3.8% of GDP, or $130.5 bn; to make matters worse, FDI inflows expected are on gross basis and net inflows would be much lower than $100 bn
S&P Global Ratings on Monday projected India's economic growth at 7.3 per cent in the current fiscal with downside risks and said inflation is likely to remain above RBI's upper tolerance threshold of 6 per cent till the end of 2022. In its Economic Outlook for Asia Pacific, S&P said India's growth next year will get support from domestic demand recovery after the coronavirus pandemic. "We have retained our India growth outlook at 7.3 per cent for the fiscal year 2022-2023 and 6.5 per cent for the next fiscal year, although we see the risks tilted to the downside," it said. Other agencies have cut India's GDP growth forecast amid higher inflation and rising policy interest rates. Earlier this month, Fitch Ratings slashed the growth estimate to 7 per cent for the current fiscal from 7.8 per cent pegged earlier. India Ratings & Research too had reduced its projections to 6.9 per cent from 7 per cent earlier. Asian Development Bank has cut the projection to 7 per cent from ...
Goldman Sachs cut its 2023 economic growth forecast for China sharply, predicting Beijing will stick to its stringent Covid Zero policies through at least the first quarter of next year
Earlier forecast was 7.2%; institution says high inflation is another growth hurdle, cut FY24 forecast to 7.2% from 7.8%
Global slowdown positive for India on balance, says CEA
'Signs are very encouraging' are for the Indian economy, he says in an interview
Merchandise exports likely to slow down and come in at $104.2 bn in second quarter of the year
Bitcoin, the largest crypto token by market capitalisation, was trading at $21,750 on Friday. On Monday, it had briefly hit the $25,000 mark
India Ratings projects GDP growth of 7.2 percent in July-September FY23 quarter, 4 percent in October-December and 4.1 percent in February-March
Gross domestic product probably fell 10% in the three months to June from a year ago, according to a Bloomberg survey of economists as of Wednesday
The policy is being brought in tandem with Prime Minister's ambitious GatiShakti national master plan