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Your Home Loan EMI set to rise – RBI hikes Interest rates !

by Viral Dholakia on March 20, 2010

Home Loan Interest rate increase

Rising inflation coupled with robust IIP data is what seems to have prompted Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to go for a pre-mature rate hike just a month before the next policy meeting scheduled on April 20. RBI has hiked the repo and reverse repo rates by 25 bps on Friday evening after the close [...]

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Bitter Pill: Is Sugar Industry headed for a Down cycle?

by Viral Dholakia
sugar

Just as the world was witnessing a gradual recovery, over the last year, from the worst crises after the Great Depression, the asset class which clearly stood out and could be easily termed as a star performer for the FY 2009-10 is Sugar as a commodity. Sugar – As the best [...]

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Finance Friday: The Fate of Low Floating-stock Counters – Valuation Crunch in NMDC FPO

by Viral Dholakia
nmdc-ltd

The Follow-on public offer (FPO) of the largest iron ore producer in the country National Minerals Development Corporation (NMDC) is currently open for subscription with a price band of Rs. 300-350 wherein the government plans to divest 8.38% stake in the market. The last date for subscription is today. Markets Way [...]

5 comments March 12, 2010 Continue Reading →

Indian Stock Markets Going Global, How Good Is It ?

by Ankit Agarwal

Ever since Mr.Bhave took the charge of SEBI, the Indian Capital Markets have had a metamorphosis of sorts be it via new regulations, ramped up security, new avenues to trade and various other initiatives.Most of these changes have had primarily two objectives,

To bring in more transparency in the markets and bring down the manipulators
To increase [...]

2 comments March 11, 2010 Continue Reading →

B-School Placement Salaries: Are we being told the real Truth?

by Viral Dholakia
IIM-MBA-salary

Finally, the placement season of ‘Top’ Indian MBA grads has begun (or, shall I say, ended the way it’s been projected that all have been placed already?). And with the placement seasons come eye-popping Salary figures as headlines in major newspapers. I never could understand the real reason for the major Institutes or major dailies [...]

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India Inc gives Thumbs up to Budget 2010 for its ‘Unambiguous’ Approach!

by Viral Dholakia
transparency

The key highlight of the Union Budget 2010 was its ‘Balanced’ and ‘Unambiguous’ approach towards clarity of future goals and various policy initiatives related to the macro-economic concerns of the country.

Markets Don’t Like Uncertainty
As per the popular belief, the equity markets do not prefer wild uncertainty going in to the future. Adoption of non-transparent approach [...]

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Union Budget 2010: Unraveling Direct Tax Proposals

by Viral Dholakia
Direct-Tax-Proposals

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has proposed new tax slabs for the so called ‘aam aadmi’  in the Union Budget 2010. The tax slabs have been revised upwards for various income groups and thus providing windfall gains to middle and upper class people. Motto of Promoting Equality The tax slabs in [...]

2 comments February 27, 2010 Continue Reading →

Union Budget 2010 Highlights: Aam-aadmi Oriented & yet Financially Inclusive

by Viral Dholakia
Union Budget Highlights 2010

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee presented his career’s fourth budget and second straight budget for the UPA government this afternoon in the Parliament with a clear signal that India has notched a respectable growth coming out of the global recession. At the same time, he stressed that now India needs to get back to [...]

17 comments February 26, 2010 Continue Reading →

Key Union Budget Highlights: Tax Benefits & Proposals

by News Editor
Income Tax Slabs

We are presenting readers with key Budget Highlights: This part talks about all the Tax proposals and benefits that this Union Budget provides: Key Union Budget Highlights 2010: Tax Benefits & Proposals The Income Tax department has introduced “Sevottam”, a pilot project at Pune, [...]

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India Economy Survey 2010 [Report]

by Arun Prabhudesai
India Economic Growth Survey

Last year we had a bumper Economy Survey, which really raised the hopes of one and all including the stock Market – though the actual budget did not live up to the hype and expectations. Contrary to that, this year’s economy survey seems quite a muted one. Indian Government just released the complete report [...]

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Union Budget 2010 Expectations: Speedy Implementation of Reforms, Taming Fiscal Deficit and Rising Inflation

by Viral Dholakia
Union Budget

Union Budget 2010 will be announced on February 26, 2010, the last working day of this February, by the finance minister Pranab Mukherjee. This will be his second consecutive budget, after first one was met with mixed reactions.

This is  Speculation is rife that the FM will undertake measures to curb the rising fiscal deficit in [...]

0 comments February 25, 2010 Continue Reading →

Railway Budget 2010: Passenger Friendly, Socially Committed & Street Smart Budget by Mamta Banerjee

by Viral Dholakia
INdian Railways Budget 2010

Indian Railways, the state-owned railway company of India overseen by ministry of Railways of the GOI, is one of the largest networks in the world with 64,099 route km under its purview, headed by Rail Minister Mamta Banerjee as of May 2009.

Interestingly, Mamta Didi has announced three Railways budgets before this one in her career [...]

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