Mumbai: Global index services provider MSCI has included 13 Indian stocks in its Global Standard Index and removed three. That takes the total count of domestic stocks on the MSCI indices to 146, up from 136. The change is scheduled for May 31 and India could potentially witness an inflow of $2.5 billion from global … Read more
Rajiv Batra, Head of Asia Pacific ex JP/CN, Equity Strategy and Head of India & Southeast Asia Equity Strategy, JPMorgan, says if one assumes policy continuity as the present dispensation is expected to come back to power, then one should keep positioned in a barbell manner. Invest in some safe and secured sectors like healthcare … Read more
B Thiagarajan, MD, Blue Star, says the AC industry, as well as Blue Star, had a great FY24 though the summer of FY23 was not a good one for the AC industry. March saw an unexpected growth in the last week. The industry for the month of March alone would have grown by over 40%. … Read more
The average Indian in 2024 might prefer to buy a tank-sized automotive beauty with all the frills over a smaller car. However, what the desis seem to be rejecting, are turning out to be the backbone of India’s car exports. The SUV breeze has affected the sales of smaller cars and sedans in India over … Read more
Harsh Gupta Madhusudan NSE Gift City, says FIIs have been unable to topple the Indian market and as soon as the FII headwind becomes a tailwind, that is where the real equity party in India will begin. For that to happen, it is just a matter of a few months at most because it is … Read more
Calls for Indian travelers to boycott the Maldives is “absolutely” helping Sri Lanka’s travel industry, the country’s Tourism Minister Harin Fernando said Thursday. “The Maldives issue is … helping us,” Fernando told CNBC, referencing a social media row in January that resulted in a sharp drop in Indian visitors to the Maldives this year. India … Read more
New Delhi: Car sales in the local market rose 1.3% to 335,629 units last month, and automakers attributed the tepid pace of growth to tapering off of the post-pandemic pent-up demand that sustained for the last two financial years. Though the growth rate moderated in April, it was the fourth consecutive month when sales volume … Read more
Sunil Koul, Executive Director (Asia Pacific Portfolio Strategy, Global Macro Research), Goldman Sachs, says: “We have a barbell approach within the market. We have bets which we like from a more tactical value side of things, so we are overweight China A-share markets, we are overweight some of the North Asian markets which includes Japan … Read more
The Huaneng Huaiyin power station in Huaian, China, on Nov. 12, 2023. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images China and India have not reduced coal generation for electricity, according to a new study, making it harder for Asia’s largest carbon emitters to reach their climate targets. While both Asian countries have ambitious plans to cut … Read more
New Delhi/Tokyo: Japanese car maker Suzuki Motor Corporation on Monday said it will continue to expand SUV portfolio in India to recover its overall market share in the passenger vehicle segment. The company, which currently has around 58 per cent stake in Maruti Suzuki India, said its net sales increased by 732.6 billion yen (15.8 … Read more
