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TMS Ep279: Domestic consumption, freight train, banks in Q2, SC Collegium

Has festival cheer brought India's consumption story back on track? How did railways turn around the freight train? Will banks see better margins in Q2? What is the SC Collegium system? Answers here

Has festival cheer brought India's consumption story back on track?

The festive season is here. So, what do the sales data and other indicators of the season suggest about consumption, which has suffered due to persistently high inflation? Let's find out

Rains key to consumer sentiments now

The recovery of consumer sentiments in rur­al India in July is likely a reflection of the improved economic prospects of the agricultural sector

Consumer IT spending to slide further amid recession fears in Asia-Pacific

Consumer IT spending in the Asia-Pacific region, already taking the brunt in the ongoing tight market conditions, is set to further slide in 2023, depending on the severity of the economic slowdown

Future imperfect

The gradual loss of momentum of growth in sentiments can be traced to the deterioration in consumer expectations from the future

Vulnerable jobs

While about 13 million lost jobs during the month, the count of the unemployed increased by only 3 million

Disparate and slow recovery of sentiments

Consumer sentiments have been recovering, but at a very slow pace. Worse still, this recovery has been decelerating in recent months. Further, this recovery is skewed in favour of the rich

Consumer sentiments uncertain

Consumer expectations in rural India were down by 1.7 per cent in May while expectations in urban India improved by 6.4 per cent

Hero MotoCorp reports 165% jump in wholesales in May at 486,704 units

Domestic sales stood at 4,66,466 units last month. The company had dispatched 1,59,561 units in the domestic market in May 2021.

Sentiments sour

It is quite possible that the controls on export of wheat and sugar could have caused the sentiments in general and expectations in particular to sour in recent times

Consumer sentiments rise slowly

Wounds of pandemic-induced lockdowns on households are healing

Farmers are doing well

In 2022, India will record the fifth consecutive year of bumper wheat crop

Consumer sentiment's recovery path

The problem is that this recovery is grossly inadequate and the rate of recovery is not only too slow but is also slowing down

Consumer sentiments improve

The improvement in sentiments during the early months of 2022 essentially reflects an increase in the proportion of households that believe that their current household incomes are better than they we

What do the unemployed do?

The delinking of activities from employment status allows a better understanding of what the unemployed do, or as CPHS informs us, what is the nature of occupation of the unemployed

BS Views of the week: Recovery in consumer sentiment; challenges facing FM for this year's Budget

What are the reasons behind the rise in consumer sentiments this month? What are the challenges before the Finance Minister for this year’s Union Budget? And, why is the danger of land subsidence increasing in Delhi-NCR? Subscribe to Business Standard and read this week’s top opinion pieces to find out.

Consumer sentiment yet to return to pre-pandemic levels: RBI study

Among the seven large economies compared with the US, Britain, Japan, China, Russia, Brazil and South Africa, which also bore the brunt of the pandemic like us, India was the worst hit: RBI

Consumer sentiments fell in December

The return to normalcy in December 2021 was celebrated by the rich and not by the rest

Consumer sentiments weaken in Dec, pose challenge to recovery of economy

In 2021, the growth in the proportion of households reporting an improvement in incomes has not translated into a proportionate increase in households reporting an inclination to buy consumer durables

Households have not recovered

Economic growth is supposed to deliver on these counts and not just on tax collections or freight movement or foreign trade