Why the government needs to be actually worried… The trade deficit for the month of December came in sharply higher at $15 billion. That is nearly $2 billion higher than normal months. While the spurt in trade deficit is understandable due to higher Read more [...]

Major News Item Impact Analysis IDFC Bank and Capital First announce plans to merge in the ratio of 139:10 IDFC Bank gets the retail reach of Capital First while in turn CF gets the more solid balance sheet of IDFC Bank IDFC Bank Read more [...]

GST rates have been cut on a total 29 goods and 53 categories of services and also propose to make the system of filing returns simpler to make the filing process more seamless. The GST Council has been struggling with falling GST revenues for quite some Read more [...]

Direct taxes collections have already jumped by 18.7% in this fiscal till middle of January 2018 compared to the corresponding period last year. Direct collections have already crossed 70% of the full year target of Rs.980,000 crore. This is after giving Read more [...]

The wholesale price index (WPI) inflation for the month of December eased to a 3-month low of 3.58% largely on the back of decline in food prices. WPI inflation is largely driven by supply side factors and the poor prices that farmers are getting are Read more [...]

The year 2017 saw a deluge of debt flows from FPIs. Nearly Rs.150,000 crore flowed into Indian debt in the full year even as FPI investments in equity remained tepid on valuation concerns. High yields and a signal from the RBI of a likely end of the rate Read more [...]