For too long there have been demands for greater transparency and accountability in the area of real estate transactions. Laws were too ambiguous, recourse methodologies …
Month: March 2017
Has the FPI undertone decisive changed in the month of March?
The month of March is just about 2/3rd way through and foreign portfolio investors (FPI) have already infused close to $3 billion into Indian equities …
D-Mart gets a bumper listing, but what makes the D-Mart model unique
To be fair, it was never in doubt that D-Mart will get a bumper listing on the bourses. But the stock actually went on to …
How much will the Idea/Vodafone merger enhance shareholder value?
The merger of Vodafone and Idea was more a question of when than whether. With rising competition from Reliance Jio and deteriorating economics of the …
CPI and WPI inflation surprise the street on the upside…
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI) announced the CPI and the WPI numbers for the month of February. Both the numbers were expected …
Fed hikes rates as expected but keeps rate trajectory benign…
The 2-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) concluded with a 25 basis point rate hike. This takes the Fed rate level to …
IIP beats street expectations; but now it needs to sustain…
he Index of Industrial Production (IIP) for the month of January 2017 came in sharply higher at 2.7% compared to (-0.6%) for the month of …
Exports post rapid growth but imports grow faster…
The February Trade data points at some distinct positives. Firstly, the Exports have shown a sharp growth in the month of February 2017 and are …
What the election outcome means for the Indian economy and markets…
The state elections are gone. While the BJP has clearly swept Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, it was the Congress that made hay in Punjab. The …
Some political lessons from the state election outcomes…
Some political lessons from the state election outcomes… As we go to press, the final results of the various state elections are still some time …
