"The govt will have to have a more conciliatory approach from now on. But apart from that, I do not see the Bihar outcome changing anything...

"But the overall current account deficit picture still looks good because imports are a larger component and they are benefitting from lowe...

"Rupee depreciation is not going to help much. Eventually, the main factor behind export increase is the demand from importing countries."

There is good news on the inflation front and the WPI is not the favoured index anymore. But that also is pointing towards a very weak dema...

We need both Japan and Eurozone to come out of the recession. Japan has again slid back into recession.

'The RBI will continue to remain vigilant and I do not see any interest rate cut this year,' said DK Joshi, Crisil.

'Vegetable and foods prices have started spiking and the government will have to be fairly proactive.'

So we see the rupee at 60 by March 2015. The pull factor of the economy has improved after a decisive election mandate, which is healthy fo...

"As far as FOMC is concerned, we do not expect any surprises and our expectation is that they will wind up the tapering by December 2014."

'The only way to attain the fiscal target of 4.8% is to cut down capital expenditure quite sharply,' says DK Joshi

Imports can only be banned if there is a sudden surge, which is not the case, ET explains.

'Unless there is a huge amount of risk-aversion globally, money should come back because the Indian market would become attractive'

"The RBI has implicitly said that unless the inflation surprises on the downside, there is very little possibility of a rate cut," DK Joshi...

The core sector data for September provides some hope that the mild industrial recovery in August may sustain. The govt has also tightened ...

Though it is becoming difficult to predict IIP growth, it should stabilize somewhere around 1%, says Joshi.

The Centre's debt rose nearly 6% in the first quarter of the current fiscal, but dropped as a percentage of GDP.

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said the wholesale price index (WPI) series, used to calculate inflation in the country, will h...