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India's current account deficit narrows to 2.5% of GDP, fiscal deficit widens

India's current account deficit narrowed to 2.5% of GDP sequentially in the December quarter (Q3)India's fiscal deficit in the 11 months to February 2019 rose to 134% of the budgeted target

3 min read30 Mar 2019
Industry

Current account deficit balloons to 2.9% of GDP in Q2

Current account deficit widened to $19.1 billion in the July-September quarter, from $6.9 billion, or 1.1% of GDP, a year ago

1 min read7 Dec 2018
Industry

No discrepancy in IT exports data: Nasscom’s Rishad Premji

The divergence in the $136 billion in India IT exports penciled in by Nasscom against $77 billion estimated RBI is primarily on account of how the two groups classify the revenue, says Nasscom chairman Rishad Premji

3 min read7 Dec 2018
Opinion

Opinion | Why the RBI is likely to increase rates

It will look at the end-March 2019 CPI projection to calculate where policy rates need to be currently

4 min read25 Sep 2018
Market

India’s current account deficit may widen to 2.8%: Nomura

Nomura expects balance of payment to remain a challenge in 2018-19 as basic BOP (current account plus net FDI) is negative and FPI also remain negative

1 min read19 Aug 2018
Market

Indian economy and the threat to the current account deficit

The overall balance of payments may also slip into a deficit this fiscal, as capital inflows may be insufficient to cover the current account deficit

1 min read23 Apr 2018
Politics

India’s current account deficit widens sharply on higher imports

The current account deficit in the October-December period widened to 2.0% of GDP, or $13.5 billion, up from 1.4%, or $8.0 billion, in the year-ago period, RBI data showed

1 min read17 Mar 2018
Politics

India’s current account deficit widens to 1.2% of GDP in July-September

India's current account deficit (CAD) in July-September widened to 1.2% of gross domestic product (GDP), or $7.2 billion as against 0.6% or $3.4 billion in the same period a year ago

1 min read14 Dec 2017
Opinion

Stalled capital-account liberalization in China

If the government had not taken action to slow the process of capital-account liberalization in 2016, the results could have been truly devastating

4 min read2 Nov 2017
Politics

Govt to release new edition of consolidated FDI policy report soon

The commerce ministry will soon release the next edition of its consolidated FDI policy document, incorporating all the changes made over the past year, says a senior official

1 min read24 Aug 2017
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