Page 46 - Economic Slowdown

Decorative paints and footwear stand out amid slowdown, may remain outliers

Market share gains and focus on product premiumisation are helping these segments

Jammu and Kashmir, economic slowdown could push India to sign RCEP

The final part of the series looks at how situations at home are putting pressure on the Modi govt to deepen its economic diplomacy

Tharoor's worry: Govt may use RBI funds on ads to show no economic slowdown

Participating in an interactive session with Delhi University students organised by his party's student wing NSUI, he claimed that the government "specialised" only in sloganeering

FM meets representatives of infrastructure sector amid economic slowdown

The representatives of the infrastructure sector expressed their issues and concern to the finance minister during the meeting

From barbers to shopkeepers, many rural Indians are hurting from auto crash

Laid-off workers returning to their villages are putting more burden on a rural sector already suffering falling income from low crop prices, and dampening consumer sentiment and growth across India

Why the demand for power is surging despite India's growth slowdown

Data on diesel, another fuel closely tied to industrial performance, offers more evidence of the slowing factory demand

Bond bulls torn between greed & fear on chances of stimulus after GDP shock

Fears of stimulus adding to already record borrowings led to benchmark sovereign notes capping their worst performance in 16 months in August

Economic growth blues make markets see red; Sensex, Nifty fall over 2%

The Sensex tumbled 770 points to end at 36,563, while the Nifty closed at 10,798, down 2 per cent, or 225.35 points

A next generation fiscal framework

It may be time to set up a Centre-state council for expenditure, and to re-anchor bond markets

Letters to BS: Deep structural reforms needed for economy to grow faster

Govt must have been anticipating dismal growth figures and hence started taking action to combat slowdown in right earnest

Investors lose Rs 2.55 trillion as stocks crash over economic slowdown

The BSE benchmark Sensex tumbled 769.88 points, or 2.06 per cent, to close at 36,562.91

Latest bank mergers unlikely to revive growth, profitability: Credit Suisse

Last Friday, the government had unveiled a mega plan to merge as many as 10 public sector banks into four to help create stronger global-sized banks

Cyclical or structural? Decoding the nature of India's economic slowdown

A slowdown in consumption demand, decline in manufacturing, inability of the IBC to resolve cases in a time-bound manner and rising global trade tension is impacting India, analysts say

Maruti Suzuki reduces output for 7th straight month in Aug with 34% cut

The company produced a total of 1,11,370 units in August as against 1,68,725 units in the year-ago month, Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) said in a filing to the BSE on Monday

Brokerages cut target prices of 123 BSE stocks, downward forecasts continue

A price target is the projected future price level of a stock arrived by an analysts based on earnings and margin forecasts

Economists predict deeper interest-rate cuts, slow economic growth

GDP rose 5 per cent in the June quarter from a year ago, the slowest pace in six years and lower than all the forecasts in a Bloomberg survey of economists

25-quarter low GDP growth to hit bank earnings, increase asset quality pain

Besides recent corporate slippages, slowdown would impact unsecured retail loans, farm and micro finance loans, commercial real estate and NBFCs and poorly-rated corporates with risk of downgrades

Growth may have bottomed in June qtr; recovery cycle to be elongated: UBS

India's economic growth has slumped for the fifth straight quarter to an over six-year low of 5% in the three months ended June as consumer demand and private investment slowed

Manufacturing growth down at 15-month low in Aug on demand slowdown: PMI

However, it has remained above the 50-mark separating growth from contraction for more than two years

The growth collapse

Global factors do not fully explain the slowdown