Household Savings

The government's command over household savings needs to be reduced for stimulating demand and private credit

Retail investments in MF rise as flows into bank deposits drop

India needs the other kind of saving now

The improvement in sentiments during the early months of 2022 essentially reflects an increase in the proportion of households that believe that their current household incomes are better than they we

The IPO-bound national insurer LIC is not only the largest holder of government debt -- owning 19 per cent of the G-secs -- but also the single largest owner of equities

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The survey, which was conducted between Nov. 5 and Dec. 1, also showed more households expect prices to rise five years from now compared with the previous survey in September.

Household spending fell 1.3% in November from a year earlier, government data showed, much weaker than the market forecast of a 1.6% gain in a Reuters poll.

Economic growth is supposed to deliver on these counts and not just on tax collections or freight movement or foreign trade

German households lowered their monthly consumption expenditure in 2020 by three per cent as the Covid-19 pandemic "markedly affected" private spending, the Federal Statistical Office said

Change in household income is one of the five components of the Index of Consumer Sentiments

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Friday launched a scathing attack on the Centre over the issue of inflation, saying the income of 97 per cent household has declined.

The index of consumer sentiments scaled up by a handsome 7.9 per cent in September

76% want Centre to cut excise duty on petrol and diesel as high fuel prices hit family budgets, says a Localcircles survey

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Govt should collect and release timely economic data

The ratio of household (bank) deposits to GDP declined to 3 per cent in the third quarter from 7.7 per cent in the previous quarter

The RBI Current Situation Index has been negative in all surveys conducted in the past four years except the one in March 2019

The March 2021 RBI Bulletin states that household financial savings in India shot up to 21% of GDP in the first quarter of 2020-21

The flip-flop in flows of financial savings was not very different in advanced economies, where net financial savings rose sharply in Q1 and declined in Q2