| NEWSALERT: Inflation rises to 1.34% in October | 14-NOV-09 |
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| Led by costlier food prices, wholesale inflation rose to 1.34 per cent in October compared with 0.50 per cent in the previous month, as per the new monthly index introduced today. |
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| India's GDP growth at 6.2% in FY10: HSBC | 05-NOV-09 |
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| Global banking major, HSBC has retained its India GDP growth forecast of 6.2 per cent in FY10 but hiked the outlook for next fiscal by 0.5 per cent to 8.5 per cent given the economic recovery. |
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| Price rise races past terrorism in threat perception | 31-OCT-09 |
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| India saw one of the worst terrorist attacks in November last year, when Mumbai was under siege for four days. Little under a year later, Indians perceive rising food prices as a bigger threat than terrorism. |
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| From managing crisis to managing recovery | 28-OCT-09 |
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| If Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor D Subbarao’s initial role was to manage crisis, his role now will be to manage recovery. The governor himself said as much in the monetary policy announced today. |
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| Growth forecast falls to 6% in RBI survey | 27-OCT-09 |
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| Professional forecasters have added to Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Duvvurri Subbarao’s dilemma on timing the exit from an accommodative monetary policy stance. |
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| High inflation rates a cause for concern | 27-OCT-09 |
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| Although year-on-year inflation is still only 1.2 per cent, strong upward trends seen in the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) inflation and the persistence of high Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation are a cause of concern, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in its pre-monetary policy review today. |
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| Inflation may touch 10 per cent by end March 2010 | 25-OCT-09 |
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| Inflation, which crossed the 1 per cent mark for the week ended October 10 after seven months, is likely to surge to 10 per cent by March end driven by surging food prices, low base effect and rising manufacturing costs, industry body Assocham said. |
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| Akash Prakash: The capital inflow conundrum | 23-OCT-09 |
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| A few days ago the investment community globally was surprised by the announcement that the Brazilian authorities were planning to re-introduce the IOF levy (a tax on foreign financial transactions). A measure clearly designed to reduce appreciation pressures on the Brazilian currency. This tax used to exist and was only abolished in 2008 (when the global financial system was on the verge of collapse, and all emerging market, or EM, countries were seeing huge capital outflows). |
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| Monthly WPI to lower bond volatility: DBS | 21-OCT-09 |
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| India’s switch to a monthly wholesale-price index (WPI) from a weekly gauge may make government bonds more attractive by reducing price swings, according to DBS Group Holdings and Sundaram BNP Paribas Asset Management Co. |
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