Green Shoots

Without the contribution of the steel sector, industrial production would have contracted significantly from a year ago

This is how you can give consumption demand a leg-up

The need of the hour is lesser short-term regulation and greater focus on long-term goals

100-word take | A slow capex recovery has taken root

Improved capacity utilisation…provides a lead indication of a “reinvigoration of investment activity,” says RBI staff paper.

Want to bet on high GDP growth? Buy these: Enam

Equity markets have rallied globally and this has helped Indian stocks as well, says Sridhar Sivaram of Enam Holdings. "The domestic picture seems to have improved and that has helped as well."

IDFC Securities bullish on roads, ports sector

According to Shirish Rane, head of research, IDFC Securities green shoots are already visible in the roads and ports sector. The volumes in both the container segment and bulk have grown substantially, which in turn is driving the volume growth for ports.

Sales may pick up post 12-17% price correction: Orbit Corp

Ramashrya Yadav, Joint CEO, Orbit Corporation says wherever the price correction has happened the volumes are slowly inching up.

'Green shoots hardly visible; industry still in trouble'

The study comes days after Finance Minister P Chidambaram said the green shoots are visible and measures taken by the government will help the economy achieve the potential growth rate of 8 percent.

D&B Business Expectations Survey: Bad news all around

All six indices, including volume of sales, selling prices, new orders, inventory, employees and profits, have declined and three of the six indices are at a four quarter low and the fourth index is at a 14 months low. So it is bad news all around unfortunately