Recapitalisation move is positive under the current circumstances where all factors of production are positive, said Bimal Jalan, Former Governor, The Reserve Bank of India.
Growth could be around 7 percent in the second half and 7.5 percent next year, says Chetan Ahya, MD and Chief Economist- Asia Pacific, Morgan Stanley.
In an interview to CNBC-TV18, DK Mittal, Former Secretary, Financial Services, Pradeep Kumar, Former MD, SBI and KC Chakrabarty, Former Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) shared their views and outlook on the proposed merger of public sector banks.
In an interview to CNBC-TV18's Latha Venkatesh, Anant Narayan of Standard Chartered, R Shankar Raman of Larsen and Toubro and V Srinivasa Rangan of HDFC spoke about the strength of the rupee versus the dollar and its impacts on industry.
If you are looking for something long-term with a pretty decent return and the possibility of some upside, then Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs) look interesting, said Shilpa Kumar, Managing Director and CEO, ICICI Securities
SBI CMD Arundhati Bhattacharya is confident that the merger will complete by April 1. The trading of shares from the associate banks will stop immediately before the merger. There will only be a merged SBI share starting April 1, she said.
At the end of Q3, a whopping 41 percent of corporate debt is with companies whose earnings are less than their interest outgo. Credit Suisse's MD and Head of Research Ashish Gupta shares his detailed analysis with CNBC-TV18's Latha Venkatesh on a special show - Indianomics.
Latha Venkatesh of CNBC-TV18 speaks to a group of experts on the rural and agricultural issues in India and the solutions to those problems.
There have been structural issues hindering development of the corporate debt market in India, Khan says, adding, in fact, not many countries have a robust corporate debt market and some countries like India have a bank-dominated system.
Speaking to CNBC-TV18 SBI Chairman Arundhati Bhattacharya said the reason for banks proposing to hold majority stake in these funds was that they feel the pain most.
Strategic debt restructuring is a useful tool, said Kochhar, adding, the bank has successfully managed to find a buyer for one of the companies it had invoked the restructure for.
Various ratings agencies upgraded Indian banking sector last week. Furthermore, a bunch of big banks announced their Q2 results highlighting a lower creation of fresh bad loans in the second quarter versus the first quarter. Is the worst over for banks' asset quality?
A panel consisting V Srinivasan of Axis Bank, Dr. Arvind Virmani, Advisor to the RBI and Sajjid Chinoy of JPMorgan discuss if India is on the path of sustained growth.
Indian banking system has seen increase in NPAs and restructured accounts during the recent years.
This week on Indianomics we bring an interesting presentation by the Reserve Bank of India‘s Governor, Raghuram Rajan. His speech when he accepted the Deutsche Bank Prize for excellence in financial economics.
Here's a lowdown of the speech Rajan made on commencing his term as the 23rd Reserve Bank Governor.
The Indian currency seems to be on firmer ground this week, but the currency still remains vulnerable despite the Reserve Bank of India‘s (RBIs) second salvo. This peace has been bought at a huge price on the rates front.
Kumar Ketkar of Dainik Divya Marathi, Dipankar Gupta, former professor of sociology at JNU and Rajdeep Sardesai, managing editor, CNN-IBN concur, on CNBC-TV18's Indianomics, that the ability to build consensus and project a focus on growth is what will ensure electoral victory.
In this week‘s episode of Indianomics on CNBC-TV18 Sonal Varma, India economist, Nomura and Taimur Baig, economist, Deutsche Bank advise viewers to judge the Budget according to estimates, spends and a roadmap.
In this edition of Indianomics, former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor, Dr YV Reddy gives his insights on India's reform agenda and his new book, 'Economic Policies and India's Reform Agenda: New Thinking'.
The key theme of the latest edition of the British weekly The Economist is that India's growth prospects in the coming decade is nowhere near the 10 per cent growth that was assumed until recently. India's potential growth is probably close to half of that, which is the current 5.5 per cent.
Indianomics, CNBC-TV18‘s special show highlights the pros and cons of the direct cash transfer scheme with Pratap Keshari Deo, Food and Civil Supplies Minister in Odisha government, Kirit Parikh, economist and former Planning Commission member and Prof. Himanshu, economist from JNU.
A select panel of experts agree that a cut in interest rate by the RBI would not boost growth and called for a small reduction to cheer market sentiment.
Kingfisher is fast becoming India's version of too big to fail. The company hasn't been able to pay its staff, taxes and now can't pay for fuel. But it's not just Vijay Mallya's money that's going down. Banks have lent over nearly Rs 7,000 crore in loans and hold a chunk of the company shares.
CNBC-TV18's show Indianomics looks at the disastrous industrial growth number that has come in for the month of October. Sanjay Nayar, the Head of KKR in India and Ravi Kumar, Former Chairman of BHEL and now Director at Abhijit Power breakdown the IIP number and analyse the different industries and what this number means for investor confidence.