The Indian Services GDP is probably in threat as India loses its leadership of the incipient global Services sector growth, where it now enjoys a barely positive PMI at 52 after a big slide from 54 in October and instead the remaining almost vestigial 18% of Indian GDP that is manufacturing has taken pride of … Continue reading
Though the SGX Nifty has factored in all weekend heebie jeebies into the opening price, the increase in Volatility on Friday to 26-27 would indicate a likely rush to reach the “ultimate bottom” and shorts on Nifty seem to be controlled and careful while the buyers have been out in full strength at these prices … Continue reading
Capital Goods production came at 10.6% , Electricity came at 8% but Composite IIP came at 4.1% up from less than 2% in January(1.14%) with Manufacturing at 4% overall. IIP is still at the lower end of the possible range. Janiary was revised down from 6.8% on sugar production data Capital Goods and Electricity are … Continue reading
Well, i understood it thus. There were first the Anti avoidance rules called the GAAr rules which were intended to catch those who benefit from the treaty in Mauritius without belonging to Mauritius per se , with a token presence not backed by assets or business i.e. Offshore investors. These offshore investors have been targeted. … Continue reading
The used car market in India has matured in the last two decades with ready company owned used car operations from Hyundai, local franschised multi store (warehouse) operators like Classic Cars and even multi brand all purpose car repair chains from Carnation. The current story in the papers of course is the DNA money story … Continue reading
2011 was as much about making business happen as any other year despite deal business going down by 30% to $460 mln in the year in India and as usual we had a consultant reporting on growth from the India corneer of the world in Investment Banking as global focus shifts to fee adviisory business. … Continue reading
India’s asynchronous naure withthe global Economy has more or less been locked in by a past generation’s ascendancy to the senior positions. Even in my colleagues (peers) I would find the unemployable having stuck to their positions and holding positions of influence in the few MNC corporations and global consultants that are India-centric in one … Continue reading
In the vein of serious statistics collected and regrouped by the nations Economists, here is the latest symptom of the double digit interest rate infection..With global commodities holding,raw material inputs keep moving up higher as Primary Articles for WPI inflation crossed 12.5%. Food group ran up 100 points from 8.06% to 9.02% while fuel is … Continue reading
There are a lot of reasons we are having deeper cuts in the market daily, a 5% whipsaw on either side becoming very common. One of the first predilections we isolated was the NBFC trader and watcher ons angst with the constant over performancefrom the Financial sector. Very frankly, almost half of our GDP coul … Continue reading
Unlikely..the winning core team of the India Infrastructure story is resilient and used to challenges Though Indian operators do not have the habituated brand of global infrastructure giants and are getting preference from the government in financing as they have to use the $3 trillion infrastructure cheque to build India’s ports, power plants and many … Continue reading