The Senate confirmed Russell Vought as Director of the Office of Management and Budget, solidifying his role in shaping federal spending. H...

The budget has shifted from a suspenseful event to a more predictable one with year-round announcements. While fiscal conservatism is expec...

"The DNA of our finance ministry has embedded in it a strong sense of fiscal discipline & an aversion to profligacy & bankruptcy. (Unlike a...

What's worse, a populist budget could have helped some sections in society in the near term (though the net impact over the longer term is ...

Overall, the Budget gambit hinges crucially on hopes of improved traction in India’s private sector, quick revival in private capex, pick u...

Analysts said the finance minister will have to strike a fine balance while keeping up the momentum of the country's promising but fledglin...

The persistent fragility of Indian households, amid rising wealth and income inequality, will require prolonged fiscal support.

As Europe is forced, after the US pivot to Asia, to find its own geopolitical identity, it is useful for India to engage with Germany, alon...

Fang said that at Moody’s there had been concerns about the effectiveness and implementation of major policy prescriptions dished out by th...

I normally don’t use superlatives as frivolously as many do, but this Union Budget reminds me of the legendary Kapil Dev’s four sixes off E...

Morgan Stanley has raised its 2021-end Sensex target to 55,000 from 50,000, which means a potential gain of 10% from current levels. The Se...

In a report, the research house said a rating downgrade looms over India in FY21, not because of fiscal problems but because of the measure...

A $265 billion virus rescue package is equivalent to 10% of India’s gross domestic product, but some economists estimate the additional gov...

Regrettably, one sees the same importance to penny-pinching in India —of minimising additional expenditure, of containing the fiscal defici...

Nomura expects the Budget to prioritise investment over short-term consumption demand, announce measures for boosting housing demand and at...

Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said: "Including Temasek in the NIR framework will provide the government with additional fisc...

Australian Prime Minister John Howard brushed off an IMF call for fiscal restraint, days after he promised billions of dollars in tax cuts ...