INDIAN ECONOMY
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The World Bank and IMF, in their latest Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) reports on India, said the country's financial system has become more resilient, diversified, and inclusive since the previous assessment in 2017. The World Bank released its Financial Sector Assessment (FSA) report on Oct 30 w...
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For years, India's consumption story has been anchored around festivals. Diwali, Eid and Christmas have long been both cultural and economic milestones, moments when optimism and spending converge to light up balance sheets. Yet, beneath these seasonal surges, a deeper shift has taken root.
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India’s dependence on imported cooking oils is expected to remain elevated in the near to medium term, with edible oil imports likely to decline only marginally in the 2024–25 oil year (November–October), according to consulting firm India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra).
“Lower kharif acreage may also impac...
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Chief economic advisor V Anantha Nageswaran on Friday expressed confidence that India's economic growth for FY26 will exceed 6.8%, supported by stronger consumption driven by GST rate cuts and income tax relief.
Speaking at CNBC-TV18's Global Leadership Summit 2025, Nageswaran - said, "I am comfortable looki...
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Blackstone-backed shopping mall operator Nexus Select Trust said that despite continuing global economic uncertainty, discretionary spending driven by the festive season remained on a strong footing this year. According to the management, the growth in sales across its portfolio, both during the festive seaso...
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Stating that Tata Group’s upcoming semiconductor plant will put Assam in the driver seat of the engine for developed India, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said the state tops the list in the country for maximum utilisation of special central fund to create capital assets.
Sitharaman re...
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India's consumer inflation rate likely plunged to the lowest in at least a decade in October on a sustained fall in food prices, and intensified by a higher base of comparison last year, according to the median forecast in a Reuters poll of economists.
Some economists argued that a cut in the Goods and Ser...
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India needs to give further impetus to financial sector reforms and boost private capital mobilisation to become a USD 30-trillion economy by 2047, according to a World Bank report.
The World Bank's Financial Sector Assessment (FSA) report has acknowledged that India's 'world class' digital public infrastr...
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India's consumer inflation rate likely plunged to the lowest in at least a decade in October on a sustained fall in food prices, and intensified by a higher base of comparison last year, according to the median forecast in a Reuters poll of economists.
Some economists argued that a cut in the Goods and Ser...
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India’s reduced dependence on oil has strengthened macro stability, but crude remains the single biggest risk to market performance, Morgan Stanley said in its latest strategy note. The brokerage credited the decline in oil intensity measured by barrels imported per unit of GDP for supporting a market re-rati...
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Capital expenditure by state governments likely grew 10% on-year in the first six months of the current financial year on a shrunken base, reflecting a moderate rate of growth compared to the Centre’s frontloading of capex to boost economic activity.
A review of 18 states’ finances by FE showed that their ...
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Income tax relief and goods and services tax (GST) rate cuts are not just for boosting demand, but also supplies,” chief economic advisor V Anantha Nageswaran said on Friday, expressing confidence that economic growth would be upwards of 6.8% in the current financial year.
He said the fiscal measures taken...
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MARKET & FINANCE
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Foreign Institutional Investors (FPIs/FIIs) bounced back to buying Indian equities at worth Rs 6675 crore. Meanwhile, Domestic Institutional Investors (DIIs) net bought Rs 4581 crore on Friday, November 7, 2025, according to provisional exchange data.
DIIs bought shares worth Rs 19,470 crore and sold share...
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SEBI chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey dismissed speculation about a possible ban on weekly options expiry, saying the regulator has not taken any such decision for now. He was speaking on November 7 at CNBC-TV18's Global Leadership summit. He added that right now weekly expiry was on and was working and clarified...
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Global equity funds saw a surge in inflows in the week through November 5 as investors, optimistic about rising artificial intelligence-linked corporate deals, favored higher allocations during a market correction.
Investors acquired a net $22.37 billion worth of global equity funds in their largest weekly...
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Markets regulator SEBI will soon set up a working group to undertake a comprehensive review of short selling and the Securities Lending and Borrowing (SLB) frameworks, its Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey said on Friday.
Outdated frameworks to undergo comprehensive review
The framework for short selling, intro...
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The weak demand-supply dynamics continue to weigh on the government securities market, keeping yields still elevated. The weak demand from banks, insurance companies and pension funds cannot match the constant supply, said market participants. This has led participants to bid at higher yields in the previous ...
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India’s forex reserves dropped $5.623 billion to $689.733 billion for the week ended October 31, the Reserve Bank of India said on Friday. The overall reserves had declined by $6.925 billion to $695.355 billion.
For the week ended October 31, foreign currency assets, a major component of the reserves, decr...
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GLOBAL CORPORATE
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Meta Platforms on Friday said it will invest $600 billion in U.S. infrastructure and jobs over the next three years, including artificial intelligence data centers, as the social media giant races to build infrastructure to power its AI ambitions.
Meta has doubled down on AI, with a target of achieving sup...
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India is emerging as a potential key player in the global rare-earth supply chain, as the recent Donald Trump-Xi Jinping summit has given the world a one-year reprieve from China's export controls, opening a strategic window for New Delhi to expand its refining and manufacturing capabilities, according to an ...
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Sweden's Inter IKEA, which supplies furniture to IKEA stores around the world, said on Friday its annual operating profit dropped 26% as the impacts of U.S. tariffs drove up costs.
The IKEA brand owner said operating profit for the financial year ended August 31 was 1.7 billion euros ($1.98 billion), down ...
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China will restore soybean import licences for three U.S. firms and lift its suspension on U.S. log imports starting November 10, its customs authority said on Friday in another sign of easing trade tensions between the two nations.
The licence suspensions for farmer-owned cooperative CHS, global grains ex...
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Global investments in renewable energy aren't bearing fruit and the world should focus on securing reliable supplies of fossil fuels, U.S. energy and interior secretaries said this week as they worked on convincing Europe to buy more U.S. oil and gas.
The U.S. has become Europe's top oil and gas supplier o...
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Amazon.com on Friday said it expanded its low-cost e-commerce service Amazon Bazaar, known as Haul in the U.S., to 14 additional markets, ramping up competition with Chinese rivals like Shein and PDD Holdings' Temu in the global race to sell ultra-cheap goods like $10 dresses and $5 accessories.
Sweeping i...
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China’s exports dropped in October, hit by a 25% fall in shipments to the United States, according to government data released Friday. Overall, China’s global exports fell 1.1% from a year earlier, marking the weakest performance since February. This follows an 8.3% increase in September.
Imports rose only...
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CEO Elon Musk on Thursday said Tesla probably will have to build "a gigantic chip fab" to make artificial intelligence chips and publicly mused the EV maker could work with Intel.
Tesla is designing its fifth-generation AI chip to power its autonomous ambitions, and Musk at the company's annual meeting lai...
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The Supreme Court’s questioning of President Donald Trump’s use of broad powers to justify much of his sweeping tariffs leaves businesses that actually pay the levies facing months of potential uncertainty.
While the same lack of clarity applies to US trading partners — both those that have already inked d...
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Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, projected that roughly 10% of its total ad revenue in 2024, which comes to around $16 billion, came from ads linked to scams and banned products, according to a report by Reuters.
According to news reports, the documents have been drawn fr...
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Banking
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is considering relaxing rules for lenders, the regulator said on Friday, observing that it has built up strong capital buffers from improved profitability and asset quality. “We will ensure that our financial system evolves responsibly,” RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra said at SBI...
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India is turning its gaze toward the creation of global-scale banks, which would be mega institutions capable of financing the country’s growing ambitions in infrastructure, manufacturing and technology. The government’s renewed focus on consolidation among public sector banks (PSBs) signals not just a domest...
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GLOBAL ECONOMY
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In a shift from his long maintained approach over US tariffs, US President Donald Trump on Thursday acknowledged that consumers are actually paying higher prices for goods. This marks a switch in his stance, as he has long maintai...
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Taiwan's exports grew at their fastest clip in nearly 16 years in October, setting a record as booming demand for chips and artificial intelligence (AI) technology outpaces the effects of U.S. tariffs on the island's goods.
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A sharp rise in Hungary's budget deficit, if coupled with higher inflation and currency market pressure, could threaten Hungary's credit rating, S&P Global said, as public spending promises mount in the run-up to a tightly contest...
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The economic impact of the U.S. government shutdown is far worse than expected, but the U.S. economy is likely to rebound quickly once it ends, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Friday.
Construction projects ar...
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Mexico's annual inflation decelerated in October, official data showed on Friday, staying within the central bank's target range, although analysts remained cautious about the path ahead.
Consumer prices in Mexico rose 3.57% in...
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The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits increased marginally last week, Haver Analytics estimated on Thursday, pointing to stable labor market conditions in October despite a surge in announced la...
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China's exports unexpectedly slumped in October as overseas orders tapered off following months of front-loading to beat President Donald Trump's tariffs, and as buyers watched to see how a volatile month in U.S.-China trade ties ...
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INDIAN CORPORATE
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Reliance Jio is positioning its home-grown 5G technology for a global push, analysts said in a recent report by Jefferies, noting that the company now has the capability to tap a $121 billion telecom technology market as countries...
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ABB India reported steady underlying demand during the July–September quarter, driven by a 13 percent rise in base orders even as delays in large project finalisations softened overall order growth, the management said in a Q3CY25...
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Moody’s Ratings on Tuesday upgraded Bharti Airtel Ltd.’s long-term issuer rating to Baa2 from Baa3, while revising its outlook to ‘stable’ from ‘positive’, citing the telecom major’s improved financial profile, steadily expanding ...
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Bajaj Auto, which is set to take majority control of KTM AG, is looking at various options, including moving more production to India and job cuts as part of plans to reduce costs at the financially troubled Austrian bike maker, a...
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State-owned CIL on Friday said it has entered into a partnership with Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) to expand a thermal power project in Jharkhand at an estimated cost of Rs 21,000 crore.
Under the joint venture agreement, t...
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The Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) on Friday sealed a major deal with American defence major GE Aerospace to procure 113 jet engines for its Tejas light combat aircraft programme.
The firming up of the deal came notwithstandin...
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Bharat Heavy Electricals has secured an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) order worth Rs 6,650 crore from NTPC for setting up the 1×800 MW Darlipali Super Thermal Power Project, Stage-II in Sundargarh district, Odis...
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Hindalco Industries, an Aditya Birla Group-owned firm, posted a 21.28% rise in consolidated net profit to Rs 4,741 crore in Q2FY26 as compare to Rs 3,909 crore in Q2FY25.
Hindalco Industries, one of India’s largest aluminium an...
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Kalyaan Jewellers reported consolidated net profit at Rs 260.51 crore in Q2FY26, up % from Rs 130.60 crore in Q2FY25.
Revenue of the company stood at Rs 7,856.02 crore, up % from Rs 6,057.62 crore in Q2FY25....
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Bajaj Auto reported a 53.17% year-on-year (YoY) rise in consolidated net profit at Rs 2,122.03 crore in its Q2FY26 from Rs 1,385.44 crore reported in Q2Y25. Revenue recorded at Rs 15,253.64 crore, up 19.02% from Rs 12,815.53 crore...
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FSN E-Commerce, the parent company of fashion and beauty retailer Nykaa, reported a multifold growth in consolidated net profit to Rs 34.4 crore in the Q2FY26 from Rs 10.04 crore in the Q2FY25. Nykaa’s revenue from operations rose...
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Insolvency
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The insolvency regulator has proposed mandating bidders for bankrupt firms to disclose beneficial ownerships, a move aimed at curbing misuse of the ‘clean slate’ principle and preventing backdoor entry of disqualified promoters or...
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