CNBC-TV 18 Editor Columns

Budget Analysis: Why Budget will get mixed responses from India Inc  

28 Feb 2013, 7.44 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

The Finance Minister, Chidambaram announced the fiscal Budget 2013- 2014 and also announced that he shall endeavor to introduce the amended DTC, post ...

Union Budget 2013: Why Chidu's Lo-Cal budget is a flop-show  

28 Feb 2013, 4.12 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

If Palaniappan Chidambaram’s eighth budgethas not set the markets on fire, it can be easily explained: his first goal was to avoid doing damage to i...

Union Budget 2013 - 14: Chidambaram plays safe; market disappointed  

28 Feb 2013, 4.00 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

Much was expected of Finance Minister P Chidambaram in Budget 2013 considering that he had marketed it aggressively to foreign institutional investors...

Budget 2012-13: Budget's big message: Govt is always right  

20 Mar 2012, 8.00 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

In the past, budgets used to be a kind of state-of-the-union message, a strong indication of vision, direction and drive. Not any more. ...

Budget 2012-13: Tinkerer Pranab has missed the bus - so what's new?  

20 Mar 2012, 5.36 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

Mountains of expectations always deliver a mouse. And so it was with Pranab Mukherjee's make-or-break budget. He neither made much of the opportunity ...

Budget 2012: Why its difficult to believe the FM this time  

17 Mar 2012, 12.16 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

This was that kind of budget, bewilderingly muddled about what it wanted to achieve....

Budget 2012 takes the 'p#*s' out of industry  

17 Mar 2012, 12.13 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

Anybody that says the Budget was a non-event hasn't read it all. Nor have I. But I've read enough to know it is a significant event! A very significan...

Budget 2012: Pranab Mukherjee's cautious game disappoints market  

16 Mar 2012, 5.26 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

The good thing for Pranab Mukherjee was that few people had any big expectations from the Budget, given the political compulsions of the UPA governmen...

Budget 2012: Despite Budget, equity, bonds & currencies will have a ball  

16 Mar 2012, 3.45 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

The optics from the Union budget 2012-13 are positive for markets with higher growth, lower inflation and lower fiscal and current account deficits. G...

Budget 2012: Thank you, Pranab-da, for not doing something worse...  

16 Mar 2012, 3.44 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

Pranab misses his Big Bang moment, plays realist instead by making the right noises, and tinkering on some areas, Mukherjee has avoided any major nega...

'Budget: FM needs to do a balancing job'  

19 Feb 2010, 6.14 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

The upcoming Budget may be largely centered around the reintroduction of the fiscal prudence measures; while also ensuring that the demand buoyancy in...

'Focus on infrastructure should be strengthened further'  

17 Feb 2010, 2.47 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

The Eleventh plan had projected about 500 billion USD investment in Infrastructure between 2007 and 2012. Given the actual investment so far, a signif...

Key features of Budget 2009-2010  

06 Jul 2009, 1.08 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

The following are the highlights and key quotes of the budget 2009-10 presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in parliament today. ...

Changing times in India  

25 Jun 2009, 11.53 am  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

This is changing times in india . Society is witnessing civilisational changes , things which were permanent fixture of indian mind-set for thouands o...

Consumer durable firms feel the heat of rising steel costs  

21 Apr 2008, 8.18 am  |  Source: Business Line

Faced with spiralling input costs and margin pressures, consumer durable companies are looking at using composite alloy in lieu of metals to keep thei...

Rollback will not impact bottomline: Bhushan Steel   

04 Apr 2008, 3.37 pm  |  Source: CNBC-TV18

Neeraj Singal, MD of Bhushan Steel & Strips informs that the company is going to rollback between Rs 500 to Rs 1,000, on the corrugated galvanized she...

Taxing bonds uncovered  

07 Mar 2008, 10.30 am

Our experts explain the details of the conversion of company bonds into shares or debentures and its tax implication...

Taxing FII the FM’s way  

07 Mar 2008, 10.30 am

Our expert list out the detail on what budget '08 holds for Foreign Institutional Investors. ...

Taxing jurisdictions  

07 Mar 2008, 10.00 am

A better way to subject these offshore deals to tax in India was to bring about a change in the charging provisions of the Act and deem these sales as...

Stay away from Reliance Capital: Sukhani   

05 Mar 2008, 11.02 am  |  Source: CNBC-TV18

Technical Analyst, Sudarshan Sukhani is of the view that one should stay away from Reliance Capital....

Rail Budget to spur tracks, platform, freight biz: Kalindee   

04 Mar 2008, 3.21 pm  |  Source: CNBC-TV18

Arvind Gemini of Kalindee Rail Nirman told CNBC-TV18 that the Railway Budget would benefit all the companies involved in track construction, moderniza...

It's Politics, Silly !!  

01 Mar 2008, 1.55 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

P Chidambaram is urbane, from Harvard, and is utterly comfortable with the idiom of the elite. In New York, he even dresses up like a Wall Street "typ...

Bouquets and brickbats  

29 Feb 2008, 6.55 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

The stock market's reaction to the Union budget could have been vastly different, if the Finance Minister had deleted two small lines from his budget ...

More money available to invest after hiking tax slabs  

29 Feb 2008, 6.29 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

Finance Minister P Chidambaram has put more money into your wallet. By hiking tax slabs, the gains from tax saving are enormous, as high as Rs 45,000 ...

The Ballot-Box Budget  

29 Feb 2008, 5.41 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

A Ballot Box budget, because clearly this is an election year budget, and I mean that literally. If the monsoons are okay we could well see an electio...

Chidambaram Budget a clear indication of elections  

29 Feb 2008, 4.45 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

Chidambaram Budget is a clear indicator that elections are imminent. It is only a matter of speculation when the election dates are going to be announ...

Sensex to move upward if it crosses 18300  

27 Feb 2008, 5.31 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

As per "Island Reversal" pattern, if the Sensex crosses 18,300 mark upto the budget presentation, then market is expected to start upward journey, say...

Competition welcome, but spectrum still issue: Bharti Ent   

27 Feb 2008, 5.04 pm  |  Source: CNBC-TV18

As the government rings in five new telecom players, Sunil Mittal, CMD, Bharti Enterprises said that competition is welcome, but not at the cost of hi...

A blend of Profitability and Populism  

27 Feb 2008, 10.13 am  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav presented his fifth rail budget on a high note and his confidence was quite palpable when he addressed Parliament. ...

A populist budget is not a bad thing  

26 Feb 2008, 6.53 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

There are two people whom I hope Finance Minister P Chidambaram pays heed to when he presents his budget on February 29th. The first Railway Minister...