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Union Budget: A Beginner`s Perspective   

06 Mar 2013, 12.49 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

A budget by definition is a list of all planned incomes and expenses of an entity. The Union Budget refers to the budget of government of India. ...

Union Budget 2013 - 14: Time to realign your finances  

04 Mar 2013, 1.20 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

It has neither given you much nor has it taken things away from you – that is probably a better way to put Budget 2013-14. ...

Budget Analysis: Find out: Changes made to make RGESS attractive  

04 Mar 2013, 1.14 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

The Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme (RGESS) has started operations and there are a few details related to the tax benefit that the individual will ...

Union Budget 2013 - 14: Adherence to fiscal consolidation, says ICICI Economist  

04 Mar 2013, 1.07 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

The Finance Minister has broadly delivered on his commitment of a budget that adheres to a path of fiscal consolidation while simultaneously attemptin...

Investment, consumption lack stimuli to grow: IndusInd  

04 Mar 2013, 12.36 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

Not enough stimuli to drive investments and consumption for growth, says Moses Harding, IndusInd Bank....

Budget 2013 along expected lines, says JSPL  

02 Mar 2013, 1.48 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

The Union Budget 2013-14 is along predictable lines and is in sync with the Government’s mantra to achieve growth leading to inclusive and sustainab...

Union Budget 2013 - 14: An earnest effort to restore confidence: BoB CMD  

01 Mar 2013, 5.33 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

The four major macro concerns that have been weighing on the confidence of investors and rating agencies for the last several months are India's high ...

Union Budget 2013 - 14: Laudable job in sticking to public commitments  

01 Mar 2013, 2.53 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

A challenging macro-economic situation, brought on both by domestic and global conditions. In this environment, the FM seems to have done a commendabl...

FM Clamps Down On Tax Avoidance Via Share Buybacks  

01 Mar 2013, 9.24 am  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

By: Ameya Kunte, Taxsutra.com...

February 28th: History Repeats Itself?  

01 Mar 2013, 9.17 am  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

By: Menaka Doshi, CNBC TV18...

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 ...

Budget Reactions: Inclusive growth remained foundation of Budget: ICRA  

28 Feb 2013, 7.17 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

The Union Budget for 2013-14 has made a commendable attempt to restrict the fiscal deficit to 4.8% of GDP in 2013-14. ...

Budget Analysis: Nothing new for Mutual Fund investors  

28 Feb 2013, 5.32 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

Mutual Fund industry was anticipating a Budget that would be just right. But it proved to be too cold! From an investor in Mutual Funds, there was not...

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...

Budget Analysis: MFs get a boost as preferred investment choice  

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

Mutual fund investors will get a lot more additional benefits when they consider putting money into these instruments in the coming financial year....

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...

Investors to face some small changes after Budget 2013-14  

28 Feb 2013, 3.00 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

Investors will witness some incremental changes as far as their investment plans are concerned in the coming financial year following the announcement...

Budget 2013-14: Need lower taxes on life saving drugs, says Arvind Remedies  

25 Feb 2013, 1.03 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

Recently RBI has reduced its GDP growth forecast for FY13 to 5.5 percent. This clearly indicates a slowdown in the economy which can be attributed to ...

Budget 2013-14: Likely to be austere on threat of credit rating downgrade  

21 Feb 2013, 3.03 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

The Union Budget for FY 2013-14 will be designed to augment economic growth while ensuring fiscal consolidation and other structural reforms. FM P. Ch...

Budget 2013-14: Not a panacea for growth revival  

21 Feb 2013, 2.08 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

In usual times, a pre-election budget would be aimed at propelling consumption demand. However, the prevailing circumstances denote a new normal for I...

Budget 2013-14: Market looking out for an `achievable Budget`  

19 Feb 2013, 3.32 pm  |  Source: Moneycontrol.com

The Finance Minister will present the FY2013-14 Budget amid high expectations. The initiation of the reforms process over the past 4 months has raised...