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By Usha Thorat |
The change in stance from neutral to “calibrated tightening” also puts to rest any speculation about cut in rates and…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting this week comes under the shadow of the massive IL&FS default that has…
By Ajit Ranade |
September 15 this year marked the tenth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, a century old gold standard…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The recent measures announced by the authorities may provide some short term relief but the sustainable solution to the…
By Ajit Ranade |
The big news this week was on two key prices. One is the price of the almighty dollar, and the other is the price of…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
One obvious casualty of widespread restructuring was the supervision of banks. The examiners of banks never had a clear…
By Ajit Ranade |
On August 31, it reported that India’s GDP growth rate for the April to June quarter was a solid 8.2 percent, well past…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
In analysing the situation, it is important to note that episodes of volatility are not a new phenomenon in India and…
By Ajit Ranade |
The floods in Kerala and the quantum of aid it needs versus what is on offer from the Centre has brought back the…
By Ajit Ranade |
In the medium to long term, the rupee will always depreciate against the dollar. The reason for this is that the rupee…
By Ajit Ranade |
The trust capital in India lags far behind the Scandinavian countries or even in East Asia. This trust deficit is the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The largest public sector bank and the largest private sector bank have announced losses for the first quarter (Q1) of…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
The policy repo rate, which (over time) drives the rate at which banks lend to customers, has moved up from 6 per cent…
The annual study of State budgets released this month by the RBI comes amid important developments in the fiscal…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Standing Committee on Energy in its thirty-seventh report to the Lok Sabha said that there are 40,000 megawatts of…