Weekly Round Up – Week 13
Major events of the week are RBI conducts successful dollar-rupee swap to inject liquidity, the first of its kind, lenders take control of Jet Airways, sale of stake by GMR…
Brexit – Understanding The Process And The Roadblocks
UK’s exit from EU has reached a nerve wrecking stage after EU rejected UK’s request for three month extension. The British parliament is now voting again on what sort of…
Corporate Battle – Can L&T Wrest Mindtree??!
Share purchase agreement for 20.3% stake in Mindtree between Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and an existing investor is the beginning of an interesting takeover bid. The bid is generating lot…
Corporate Analysis – Maruti Suzuki
After growing its profits at almost 30% during FY14-18, Maruti Suzuki seems to have hit a speed-breaker. Profits for nine months ending Dec’18 recorded decline, although marginally at 2.3%. Sales…
Weekly Round Up – Week 12
Major events for the week are release of trade data for the period April’18-Feb’19 showing sharp increase in merchandise trade deficit, worsening of crisis in Jet, a ‘hostile’ bid by…
Weekly Round Up – Week 11
While the developments in the policy front was subdued with the announcement of general elections, corporate front saw a flurry of activity. Important among them were Airtel’s rights issue to…
Weekly Round Up – Week 10
While domestic economy & business witnessed subdued activity, International economy saw significant movement. Most notable of these were UK’s struggle to achieve an orderly “Brexit”, thaw in US China trade…
Co-operative Banks – Understanding The Structure..
RBI has been deliberating upon creating an umbrella structure to monitor and regulate co-operative banks (CBs), a long debated proposal. CBs gained lot of prominence subsequent to demonetization for being…
Natural Gas Market in India – An Overview
The recent changes in oil and gas exploration & production regulations, some of which envisages going back to earlier system, indicate the challenges being faced by the sector. Natural gas…
Indian Imports – Where Does the Money Go??
India’s imports for April-Dec’18 period touched nearly $350 bn, an increase of 12% over previous year as per the Commerce Ministry data. This would be the second year of double…