A higher Budget outlay for Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), re-introduction of 100% tax holidays on construction of affordable houses and increasing the interest deduction limit on home loans are some of the demands of the real estate industry from the government in this year’s budget. A slew of favourable announcements in this sector could … Read more
Barcelona will raise the tourist tax for cruise passengers visiting the city for less than 12 hours, the mayor says. Jaume Collboni said the current tourist tax for stopover cruise passengers was seven euros ($A11.38) per day. He did not say by how much the tax would be increased. “We are going to propose..substantially increasing … Read more
Late Friday, the White House said it would run up an additional $1.1 trillion in new debt if all its plans were carried out over the next 10 years. That would be on top of the $16.3 trillion in debt it had already planned to incur and would bring government debt to $54.5 trillion. Official … Read more
India has set eyes to become the third largest economy by 2030 while its Viksit Bharat vision is to make the country a developed nation by 2047. However, unemployment continues to be a major headache for the country even as it grew 8.2 per cent in FY24 and has managed to grow at an average … Read more
With the post-election and pre-Budget rally taking Sensex towards uncharted zone of 81,000 level, Nimesh Chandan, CIO, Bajaj Finserv AMC, says elevated valuation level is forcing him to think contrarian. “Due to high valuations in certain pockets of the market, we may see some sector rotation by investors in the coming months,” says the Dalal … Read more
Had you bought PSU rail stock RVNL just before the interim Budget on February 1, your investment would have been doubled by now. Shares of Jupiter Wagons have rallied 64%, Oriental Rail 53% while Titagarh Rail Systems is up 56% with the combined market capitalization of top 12 rail stocks growing by about Rs 1.6 … Read more
Siddhartha Sanyal, Chief Economist at Bandhan Bank, says, “Growth is improving, interestingly from the rural side where there was a lot of concern at some point of time, it looks like some of the indicators have started gradually improving. Globally, the concerns around inflation is coming back a bit, but still in the case of … Read more
The pre-Budget rally that has seen Sensex and Nifty touch unclaimed peaks this week may not sustain in the run-up to the D-Day, according to historical market trends ahead of the Budget. “If history were to repeat, we should see a dip prior to the Budget announcement. So history advises traders not to chase prices … Read more
“So, the way broader market is participating, sectorial rotation is happening, now the IT is on the front seat for this rally, so the way market is doing the sector rotation that is clearly giving us confidence that ahead of budget maybe we can see further higher level towards 25,000 level also,” says Rajesh Palviya, … Read more
Despite growing concerns in the investor community that coalition politics might force Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to relax the fiscal consolidation path and pivot towards welfare spending from capex, global brokerage firm Goldman Sachs is expecting the contrary. “We expect the general government to stick to the announced fiscal deficit target of 5.1% of GDP … Read more
