Capex News
Capital goods stocks rebound after 2-day slide, still well below recent highs
Capital goods stocks rallied 3.29% on February 4, following a downturn after the Union Budget 2025. Despite this, the index remains down 8.71% year-to-date, with concerns over slower capex allocations impacting market sentiment.
3 min read4 Feb 2025Centre will sustain capex: Expenditure secretary Manoj Govil
States will also increase their borrowing under the Centre’s Special Assistance for Capital Investment scheme, potentially exceeding the limits set in the revised estimates, says expenditure secretary Manoj Govil.
2 min read3 Feb 2025Budget 2025: Capex misses the mark, tax relief comes as an offset
Increasing discretionary incomes will help households spend more on goods and services, particularly fast-moving ones, consumer durables and two-wheelers, all of which could experience a surge in demand.
3 min read2 Feb 2025India must revive PPPs and reform its bond market to boost economic growth
As India’s economy slows in 2024-25, the Centre can’t keep doing the infra heavy lifting on its own. We should revive public-private partnerships to attract private investment. But for debt funding, we’ll need to reform and enliven our market for bonds.
3 min read9 Jan 2025Centre weighs easing conditions for interest-free capex loans to states
The Centre hopes to increase capital expenditure during the January-March 2025 period to boost growth, which has slowed down during the first two quarters due to several factors, including slower government spending and falling consumption, especially in urban areas.
3 min read6 Jan 2025Appropriate spending must win India’s fiscal tug-of-war at the state level
Improvements have been made, but they’re patchy. Indian states should spend more of their scarce resources on capital projects that can support future economic growth than on freebies and subsidies.
4 min read30 Dec 2024Industry needs to up R&D spend, expect govt capex growth to sustain: Ficci
In an interview to Mint, Agarwal downplayed the government’s concerns that private sector salaries were not keeping pace with their multi-year-high profitability, saying that the need to retain talent ensures salary increments in the private sector.
2 min read14 Dec 2024India needs reliable data to track capital expenditure across the economy
We require a national survey to gauge capex that can accurately reflect the investments being made across the economy. India’s statistics ministry has a plan, but will it suffice?
4 min read11 Dec 2024Centre likely to maintain capex push in FY26 to aid economic growth amid sluggish state spending
With economic growth likely to remain below target in 2024-25, maintaining a similar nominal GDP growth target for 2025-26 will result in a marginal increase in the Centre’s capex.
4 min read5 Dec 2024Centre likely to miss ₹1.5 trillion capex loan target for states in FY25
So far, the Centre has released ₹50,571.42 crore to the states as part of an interest-free capex loan scheme for ramping up capital expenditure during the first eight months of FY25, while it had budgeted ₹1.5 trillion for the scheme for the fiscal
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