While Hero MotoCorp will continue to bet on the commuter segment in the long run, the overall market will start looking up as government spending and the resulting jobs and incomes push up demand for two-wheelers.
HDFC Bank is hosting the mega car loan mela on June 2 and 3 in central India and Maharashtra. The bank is offering customers two flexible repayment options – step-up and balloon. Moneycontrol looks into the pros and cons.
These banks offer interest rates of 7.65-8.2 percent on Rs 10-lakh car loans with seven-year repayment tenures
The lender has also voluntarily extended the benchmark to micro and small enterprises from October 1
Das said that banks have responded positively to linking interest rates to external benchmark but the process needs to be faster.
Union Bank of India also said that it expects MCLR to ease by 15 basis points going ahead. It plans to link its home and auto loan portfolios to RBI's repo rate, as against MCLR presently.
While the repayments in auto loans remained largely unaffected, the bank said it would watch the segment closely for any stress going ahead as the situation may worsen if the slowdown led to job cuts.
For new borrowers, the MCLR or the marginal cost based lending rate which was last reduced in January to 8 percent for a one-year loan and 8.15 percent for three-year loans, remains unchanged.
Everybody is now going for finance with very few choosing cheque or an online option. People are now scared that making any down payment, even if it is cheque, could attract scrutiny of the income tax department, says an auto dealer
The bank is transforming through digitalisation and has sanctioned home loans in record six days, the bank's General Manager P Narasimha Rao said at a function here.
Raising the issue in the Zero Hour, a Congress member in Rajya Sabha said the RBI has reduced the repo rate by 150 basis, but banks have only passed on the benefit to the consumers in the range of 60-70 basis points.
Those opting for short-tenor loans will see a substantial gain in the interest outflow.
The bank has shown phenomenal growth in the retail sector, especially in housing and vehicle segments, and growth is expected between 35-40 percent during the current financial year, Vijaya Bank CEO and MD Kishore Sansi said.
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S Sandilya, President, SIAM believes that another 25-50 basis point increase in interest rates will not make significant impact as interest rates are already very high. He stressed for auto sector to do well economy has to improve which will require infrastructure spending and other growth boosting initiative
The demand for loans for various products including home and auto loans from banks and other financial institutions in India has shown a sharp increase of 150 percent since 2010, according credit information agency CIBIL.
India's third largest private sector lender Axis Bank's first quarter (April-June) net profit is expected to rise 21 percent year-on-year to Rs 1,398 crore. Net interest income (NII or the difference between interest earned and paid out), may grow 26 percent to Rs 2,744, according to an average of poll estimate.
When reports surfaced in July that newspaper publisher Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd was struggling for survival, several of its creditors were caught off-guard. Not HDFC Bank Ltd .
If you are planning to buy a home or a car anytime after 7 August , there is good news. India‘s largest bank, State Bank of India (SBI) has decided to cut interest rates on home and auto loans from 7 August.
After a scorching pace of growth last year, automobile sales in India are slowing in the face of expensive auto loans and rising fuel prices. Toyota Kirloskar Motor expects sales could slowdown further, at least till August.
Home, auto and other loans are set to become costlier with the Reserve Bank today hiking key short-term rates to contain inflation, while giving relief to small savers by increasing the savings bank rate to 4% from 3.5% now
Home and auto loans may cost more as the RBI raised its short-term lending and borrowing rates by 25 basis points each yet again today with a view to check spiralling prices of essential commodities.