Samiran Chakraborty

Chakraborty told Moneycontrol that in his over two decades of working with investors, he hasn’t seen the kind of interest that was visible in the last two years

'Too early to celebrate' India's GDP beat: Former FM Chidambaram

Official data showed India's gross domestic product (GDP) grew 7 percent annually for the quarter, sharply beating expectations for a 6.4 percent growth rate in a Reuters poll. The economy slowed from the September quarter's 7.3 percent annual growth rate.

Looking at 66-68 range for rupee against US dollar: Citi

Speaking to CNBC-TV18 Samiran Chakraborty, Chief Economist at CITI said that rupee has to be seen in a relative context. The dollar is getting stronger, he admitted, but the rupee is overvalued against a basket of currencies.

Need pools of profit to tackle NPA menace: SBI's Arundhati

While recovery in the banking sector will be attainable in less than 5 years, real challenge is to create more employment in today's time, SBI chief Arundhati Bhattacharya told banking conference moderator Latha Venkatesh.

It is a mystery why bond yields haven't fallen: Citi

Samiran Chakraborty of Citi said it is a mystery why Indian bond yields haven't fallen, saying that the RBI can't do much to push yields below 7.4 percent.

Citizens monetary policy panel: RBI to hit pause on rate

CNBC-TV18 has constituted its own citizens monetary policy committee to shadow the Reserve Bank of India's policy. At the inaugural panel meet, members agreed that the RBI will keep its rates unchanged.

RBI initiatives a recognition of long-term solutions: Experts

RBI's open market operations wouldn't be flooding the system with excess money. The policy is a big structural change, says Hitendra Dave, Head Of Global Banking & Markets, HSBC India.

Macro Economic Survey 2016: 7-7.5% GDP growth target 'credible and realistic', says HSBC

Pranjul Bhandari, Chief India Economist, HSBC, says inflation could be much higher—almost 5.5 percent— than the 4.5-5 percent forecast in the survey.

2016 growth will be marginally higher than 2015: Citibank

Samiran Chakraborty, Chief Economist, Citibank, says India will continue to recover among the emerging markets, but a slow growth in global economy will be an external headwind for the country.

Citi names Samiran Chakraborty Chief Economist for India

Chakraborty has also held prior employments with ICICI Bank as Chief Economist and Delhi School of Economics as faculty for mathematical economics and open-economy macroeconomics.

Apr CPI cools off further to 4.87%; Mar IIP lowers to 2.1%

Retail inflation as measured by Consumer price Index (CPI) for the month of April came in at 4.87 percent as against 5.25 percent in the previous month. A CNBC-TV18 poll expected the data to soften to 5.04 percent.

See 25 bps rate cut in June, one more likely later: StanC

Samiran Chakraborty, Head of Research, Standard Chartered Bank believes the WPI and CPI numbers alone won't charm the Reserve Bank to induce rate cuts in its June policy. But if conditions laid down by it show `work in progress' and if world stays calm post Fed hike then a rate cut in June, and one post June won't be impossible.

What does India Inc expect from tomorrow's credit policy?

Industry bigwigs such as Rahul Bajaj and Adit Godrej hope for a rate cut. Though Bajaj believes a rate cut tomorrow is highly unlikely. Godrej on the other hand is also hoping for some action on the CRR and SLR front.

Weak growth in core sector, exports to impact IIP:StanChart

Samiran Chakraborty MD & Hd-South Asia Macro Research, Standard Chartered Bank explains the correlation between Core sector data, export growth data and IIP.

CPI above 5.5% may push RBI to pause rate cuts: StanChart

Samiran Chakraborty is also expecting a subdued IIP data on the back of weak exports and poor infrastructure growth.

Union Budget 2015: Will higher fiscal deficit at 3.9% change anything?

The issue is about the quality of fiscal consolidation and not so much about the quantity of it, says Samiran Chakraborty, head - research at Standard Chartered India.

Economic Survey: Weak global demand barrier to 8.5% GDP forecast, says StanC

The Economic Survey projected FY16 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in the range of 8.1 - 8.5 under the new time series data, farm growth at 4 percent and said the government is committed to fiscal consolidation through expenditure control which will help reduce fiscal deficit.

Budget 2015 India: 14th Fin panel report tabled,for 42% central tax devolution

Finance minister Arun Jaitley tabled the 14th Finance Commission report in Lok Sabha today

Jan WPI at -0.39, experts see 50 bps rate cut in April

The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) for January came in at negative 0.39 percent versus CNBC poll of 0.15 percent. The data shows a decline in core inflation but food prices have inched up. Experts discuss the possibilities of another round of rate cut.

Should aim for higher IIP; see Q3 GDP at 5.5%: StanChart

Samiran Chakraborty, head of research, Standard Chartered Bank says due to much higher weightage on agriculture in Q3 when compared to the rest of the quarters, GDP in the quarter will be closer to 5.5 percent.

Live: Revise estimates to 5.2-5.3% from 5.1% earlier: JPM

If industry trend picks up, then year end GDP can be around 5.5 percent level. Trade, hotels sector which grew at 3.8 percent versus 2.8 percent (QoQ) is in line with his expectation, says Samiran Chakraborty of Standard Chartered Bank

Q2FY15 GDP growth at 5.3% vs 5.7% in Q1, beat estimates

A CNBC-TV18 poll had anticipated the pace of growth to slide to 5 percent on the back of slowdown in industries, seen growing by 1.3 percent as against 4 percent on a quarter-on-quarter basis.

Sept WPI eases at 2.38%, food inflation cools to 33-mth low

A CNBC-TV18 poll had estimated WPI to come in at 3.1 percent on a lower primary and fuel inflation.

See FY15 GDP at 5.5%, vote-on-account to be dull: StanChart

According to Samiran Chakraborty, head-research, Standard Chartered Bank FY15 growth will be tepid around 5-5.5% on back of political uncertainly (elections). Although in the last 6-8 months some projects have got clarity, some political uncertainty has been removed, it could have a lagged effect on output.

Monetary policy rejig: Tough to achieve?

The multi indicator approach required the monetary policy to be set on the basis of growth targets as well as inflation targets though predominantly inflation targets.