China’s economy grew 5.3% in the first quarter year-on-year, official data showed on Tuesday, comfortably beating analysts’ expectations, a welcome sign for policymakers as they try to shore up demand and confidence in the face of a protracted property crisis. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected first-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) to expand 4.6% from … Read more
India is set to exit FY24 with a GDP of USD 3.6 tn and an underlying growth of 7.6%+. Capital markets signed off FY24 with a stellar 29%/60%/70 % returns in Nifty/Nifty Midcap 100/Nifty Smallcap 100. India’s market cap has reached $4.4tn, making it the fifth largest in the world. India’s capital markets have witnessed … Read more
Mumbai: Overseas Indians sent home a record $29 billion by way of remittances in the December quarter as steadily climbing returns from FCNR (foreign currency – non resident) instruments have made such savings plans more lucrative than bank deposits in the West. To be sure, remittances are a source of permanent flows, unlike repatriable NRI … Read more
India’s gross domestic product (GDP) will grow by 8% or more in the fourth quarter of current fiscal year, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday. Sitharaman said that the economy is expected to show the same rate of year-on-year expansion for the 2023/24 financial year due to the impact of improved inflation management and … Read more
South Sudan has severely limited economic growth and development. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released a report highlighting the world’s poorest countries based on GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP). While GDP is a measure of a country’s total economic output, PPP takes into account the cost of living, providing a … Read more
“Given the current scenario, deploying 80% of the equity allocation through weekly STP over the next 8-10 weeks is advisable, with the remaining allocation to be adjusted post-election, depending on the prevailing conditions. STP/SIP remains the preferred route for investing,” says Kshitiz Mahajan, CEO of Complete Circle Wealth. In an interview with ETMarkets, Mahajan said: … Read more
New Delhi: The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) reduced the number of estimates and the timeline for releasing final estimates for GDP by one year, by doing away with the third revised estimate. The ministry will now release five GDP numbers instead of six, with the final revision coming nearly two years from … Read more
“Japan is a very strong story and it trades only about fourteen-and-a-half times one year forward PE,” says Jonathan Garner, Morgan Stanley.So, are you saying we should expect only, let us say, mid-single digit kind of realistic return expectation from the Indian markets as well?That is the base case. As I mentioned, the bull case … Read more
India has been the fastest-growing major economy for the third successive year. Despite global headwinds, including geo-political realignment, India’s economy would continue its strong and resilient growth of 6.7% in FY 2024 and 6.2% in FY 2025. The first Advance Estimates of National Income 2023-24 placed macro-economic growth at 7.3% in FY 24 vis-a-vis 7.2% … Read more
“I think right from the very beginning, when the preparations for this budget started, honourable PM was very clear and the guidance which we had was very clearly to give a direction towards the next 5 years, 10 years and so on,” says Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister.Navika Kumar: Being a woman and making it to … Read more
