| Racing ahead | 23-NOV-09 |
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| While robust demand and availability of credit has boosted auto volumes in recent months, higher interest rates and reversal of excise duty cuts may play spoilsport. |
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| Policy momentum required | 22-NOV-09 |
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| The government has to play a bigger role in infrastructure development to improve valuations of related sectors. |
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| Shobhana Subramanian: Who'll finance 'affordable' housing? | 20-NOV-09 |
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| Brotin Banerjee is happy. He has been able to sell a fourth of the 1,500 apartments of his affordable housing project in Boisar, about 100 km from Mumbai, to people who he describes as belonging to the “informal sector”. These are buyers, the managing director of Tata Housing explains, who don’t have a bank account and, therefore, wouldn’t qualify for a bank loan. |
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| Bernanke says Fed will keep eye on sliding dollar | 17-NOV-09 |
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| Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has said that the central bank will monitor the sliding U.S. Dollar but pledged anew to keep interest rates at record lows to nurture the economic recovery. |
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| India Eco Summit: No change in interest rates, says Kochhar | 10-NOV-09 |
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| The country's largest private sector lender, ICICI Bank, today said there would be no revision in interest rates for sometime, even as major players like State Bank of India (SBI) and Punjab National Bank (PNB) have slashed deposit rates. |
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| 'Interest rates won't rise for two quarters' | 06-NOV-09 |
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| There won’t be any earnings upgrades for India Inc till it starts investing; and firms aren’t going to invest until they see firm signs of a global recovery, perhaps when fourth quarter US numbers are out. This, in a nutshell, is the view of JPMorgan’s head of economic research. Prior to this, Jahangir Aziz has done a stint as principal economic advisor in the ministry of finance — he’s also headed the China desk at the IMF. |
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| Asian stocks fall on stimulus concern, UBS loss | 04-NOV-09 |
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| Asian stocks fell, led by banks and developers, as UBS reported a wider-than-estimated loss amid investor concern that the withdrawal of stimulus measures will cause the global recovery to falter. |
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