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Moody's downgrade: Expect bouts of correction; sell-off in markets unlikely

Stock markets generally discount an outcome a few months in advance. They might have seen the bottom in March, unless a more ferocious second wave results in a fresh lockdown, writes Ambareesh Baliga

Back to February 28

Variation between revised and final Budget numbers has grown

Internet speed to power: Weekly indicators show economy is picking up

Weekly economic indicators show a rise in economic activity in days leading up government announcing easing coronavirus lockdown

Statsguru: Economy was in grips of a slowdown even before Covid-19 hit

Manufacturing is weakening, as is the job-generating construction sector

Slowdown, then pandemic

GDP data shows virus hit an already weakened economy

Covid-19 lockdown: FY21 GDP growth rate forecasts pose a big worry

However on the extreme ends, Bernstein pegged fall in the gross domestic product (GDP) at 7 per cent and Asian Development Bank projected GDP growth at 4 per cent

Indian economy may expand by around 5% in FY22: Ex-RBI governor Subbarao

According to Subbarao, the country is going to face its worst recession in the current financial year

States' deficit, market borrowings to increase to 4.5% of GDP: Ind-Ra

State governments were already faced with a lower-than-budgeted share in central taxes and subdued own revenue growth, when the 21 days economic lockdown was imposed from March 25

Covid's economic toll on Maharashtra

Maharashtra can expect to get additional funding from the increased allocation of Rs 40,000 crore to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act announced by the Centre

A continued derating

Global investors derate India as we avoid second generation reforms

'Polarised' and 'sell on rally' may define markets' character, say experts

With GDP growth seen shrinking, funds likely to chase stocks with high growth forecast

Between a stimulus package and a hard place

So, while we have achieved some success on the health front, are the steps taken to revive the economy adequate?

Let's not slide back to Licence Raj, we must not stifle the economy

Our economy reflects a slide back to the Licence Raj. Realising our potential requires that we squash bureaucratic control

Rationale behind the package

Govt seems to be preserving some firepower

I've to be careful, am answerable to Parliament: FM Nirmala Sitharaman

Nirmala Sitharaman tells Indivjal Dhasmana & Nivedita Mookerji that the government has made sure that mistakes committed during 2008-2013 are not repeated while announcing the Rs 20-trillion package.

Fiscal math of the imponderables

Growth holds the key to the government's fiscal deficit slippage

Covid-19: What India needs right now is a programme to help the destitute

The need of the hour is a rehabilitation programme for those trapped in destitution or near-bankruptcy by the lockdown

States need resources

During pandemic, Centre must not constrain states

Next six months will be tense

If the revival package doesn't work, high stock market valuations cannot be sustained

Statsguru: Importance of MSMEs in times of Covid-19, economic slowdown

The assurance given by the finance minister that benefits given to MSMEs will not be withdrawn if they grow in size may solve this problem to an extent