Mid- and small-cap companies seem to have done better than top-tier companies
'The government is encouraging consumption through fiscal spending in a bid to push up economic growth in the face of a slowdown in corporate investment and exports.'
The combined share of customs and excise duties, service tax, and value-added tax in India's gross domestic product reached an all-time high of 10.5%.
In the past three years, personal loans have grown at twice the rate of growth in personal disposable income, leading to a steady rise in household indebtedness. At the end of March this year, Indians owed Rs 25.2 lakh crore to banks and listed non-banking finance companies (NBFCs), up 65 per cent in the past three years.
One thing has remained constant through the Indian economy in the last seven decades: the dominance of family-owned businesses. Krishna Kant reports.
12 out of 21 public sector banks reported declines in their loan books in the last financial year against seven such banks in 2015-16 and none in 2013-14.
Fresh investments by corporates up just 5.8% in FY17, lowest since 1992
Once tipped to emerge as the biggest exporter, the pharmaceutical industry is yet to acquire the scale of those in software services, says Krishna Kant.
At Rs 470,000 for the base petrol variant, Tigor is now the cheapest compact sedan in the country
Equity markets in Pakistan and Bangladesh are tiny compared to the market capitalisation of the Indian equity market.
Experts say it will now be tough for the Modi government to catch up with the UPA's economic record owing to the shock induced by the currency demonetisation.
Corporate indebtedness is now twice what it was before the global financial crisis; banks' bad loans ratio is 3.5 times higher.
Small- and mid-size companies where Cyrus was the chairman did better on bourses than large Tata group companies
Dividend pay-out by the group companies grew at a compounded annual rate of 15.7% under Cyrus, sharply up from 2.5% in the previous three years
There was virtually no incremental equity investment by Tata Sons during Mistry's first two years
Nifty 50 firms' net profit estimated to grow by a modest 3.1% in Q2, reports Krishna Kant.
Its rich valuation with a PE of 62 times raises downside risk for investors
The combined pay for India Inc's top management was up 30 per cent in FY16, growing at the fastest pace in nine years
Together, they controlled nearly Rs 26 lakh crore of assets at the end of FY16.
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