Weekly Round Up – Week 12
Major events for the week are release of trade data for the period April’18-Feb’19 showing sharp increase in merchandise trade deficit, worsening of crisis in Jet, a ‘hostile’ bid by…
Weekly Round Up – Week 11
While the developments in the policy front was subdued with the announcement of general elections, corporate front saw a flurry of activity. Important among them were Airtel’s rights issue to…
Weekly Round Up – Week 10
While domestic economy & business witnessed subdued activity, International economy saw significant movement. Most notable of these were UK’s struggle to achieve an orderly “Brexit”, thaw in US China trade…
Co-operative Banks – Understanding The Structure..
RBI has been deliberating upon creating an umbrella structure to monitor and regulate co-operative banks (CBs), a long debated proposal. CBs gained lot of prominence subsequent to demonetization for being…
Indian Imports – Where Does the Money Go??
India’s imports for April-Dec’18 period touched nearly $350 bn, an increase of 12% over previous year as per the Commerce Ministry data. This would be the second year of double…
Weekly Round Up – Week 9
Major events of the week are release of GDP data for quarter ending Dec’18, change in GST tax rate for housing sector and government decision on Air India. On corporate…
Shares Pledging – Understanding The Risks
Sale of pledged shares of certain corporate groups by the lenders has once again brought share pledging into focus. The practice had generated lot of controversy over a decade ago…
Understanding Indus Water Treaty…
The ‘non-military preemptive’ action carried out by India yesterday is the culmination of long advocated line of action to eliminate the menace of terrorism. Other than these, a measure proposed…
Weekly Round Up – Week 8
Major events of the week were Changes in rules governing Oil & Gas exploration, fund infusion by the government in Public sector banks and Relaxation in Angel Tax in economy…
Towards Efficient Electricity Market (Part III)
After the creation of single market for manufacturing and services through GST, for agriculture through E-NAM (still, work-in-progress), it is the turn of electricity market. CERC (Central Electricity Regulatory Commission)…