The US Fed last month cut interest rates for a third time this year, citing a combination of trade-policy uncertainty, slowing global growth & below-target inflation.
Now would be a good time for the govt to revisit the sovereign bonds sale as the corporate tax cut sent the benchmark bond yield surging the most since February 2017.
Goldman Sachs & Citigroup lowered growth projections to 6% for FY20, while Oxford Economics said there’s a risk the expansion could be weaker than that.
With the economy facing a slowdown, the Reserve Bank of India Wednesday cut the repo rate by 35 basis points in its fourth consecutive policy rate cut this year.
Traders said the market was awaiting specific steps to shore up liquidity and address the crisis of confidence in the troubled Non Banking Financial Company (NBFC) sector.
If this step even partially achieves its desired results, there will be so much dislocation in the country’s economic structure as to prove a national calamity, advocate AG Mulgaokar wrote in 1969.
Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.
In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
Muted inflation was the only silver lining. The RBI should stay ahead of the curve in dealing with this spike.