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Mark to Market | Manas Chakravarty 11:00 PM | May 24,2012
That the Chinese economy is slowing is not news, although the Shanghai Composite Index did weaken a bit after the Flash PMI came in
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Capital Account | Manas Chakravarty 10:30 PM | May 23,2012
Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia believes India’s potential growth rate is around 8-9%
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Capital Account| Manas Chakravarty 08:35 PM | May 16,2012
For all the government’s talk about caring for the aam aadmi, the rise in food prices hurts the common man the most. But our leaders seem to be more worried about cartoons
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Mark to Market | Manas Chakravarty 07:53 PM | May 06,2012
For the Indian economy, slower growth in the rest of the world is good news, simply because oil prices will be lower
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Mark to Market | Manas Chakravarty 06:23 PM | May 03,2012
In short then, growth in the economy is steady month-on-month, while the pace of inflation has risen in manufacturing and is stable in services
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Mark to Market | Manas Chakravarty 09:49 PM | May 02,2012
The April manufacturing PMI numbers suggest that while there has been no slowdown in growth from the previous month, inflationary pressures have increased substantially
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Capital Account | Manas Chakravarty 08:24 PM | May 02,2012
That all the BRICS countries have rates of growth well below those reached in 2007 is quite a coincidence. Could it be that external factors common to all of them are at least partially behind the slowdown?
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Manas Chakravarty 08:15 PM | May 02,2012
The Markit Purchasing Managers Index of manufacturing for the Eurozone shows that the economy continued to contract at an accelerating pace in April
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Mark to Market | Manas Chakravarty 10:50 PM | April 25,2012
S&P says the Indian government needs to initiate structural reforms, if growth is to be revived
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Capital Account | Manas Chakravarty 08:28 PM | April 25,2012
If the US recovers and Europe manages to turn the corner, then investors will be more confident and risk appetite will return
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Mark to Market | Manas Chakravarty 10:28 PM | April 18,2012
The IMF forecasts suggest 2012-13 will be much like 2011-12, echoing RBI’s stance that the new growth normal for the economy is around 7%
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Mark to Market | Manas Chakravarty 06:10 AM | April 16,2012
The inflation data will be out on Monday, but non-food manufacturing prices should decline, in view of the slowdown
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Mark to Market | Manas Chakravarty 10:10 PM | April 12,2012
Based on the February IIP growth of 4.1%, most analysts are calling for a rate cut
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Capital Account | Manas Chakravarty 09:00 PM | April 11,2012
ADB acknowledges that rapid growth in Asia has lifted millions out of poverty
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Mark to Market | Manas Chakravarty 12:34 AM | April 03,2012
The Manufacturing PMI shows a declining trend for the last couple of months, decelerating from 57.5 in January 2012 to 54.7 in March
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