Morgan Stanley, the global financial services powerhouse, on Monday forecast that near-term growth of the Indian economy will remain weak but it will improve in 2020 because of policy measures and act...

Moody’s Investors Service on Thursday cut its growth forecast for India for 2019-20 to 5.8 per cent from 6.2 per cent, saying the economy was experiencing a pronounced slowdown which was partly rela...

Moody’s on Monday slashed India’s growth forecast for 2020 to 5.4 per cent from 6.6 per cent projected earlier, on slower than expected economic recovery.In its update on Global Macro Outlook, Moo...

The Indian economy is slowing down discernibly. Data released recently indicate that a number of organizations, including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Reserve Bank of India, th...

India’s economy is going to be stuck in the ICU for what could be a long time. The extent of the slowdown engulfing the economy can be gauged by the Reserve Bank of India slashing on Friday its year...

The lockdown has raised the spectre of stagnant bank credit this fiscal.Rating agency Crisil has forecast credit to grow just 0-1 per cent in 2020-21 against its earlier projection of 8-9 per cent.Cri...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday reviewed the state of the economy with finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and other officials and discussed stimulus measures to prop it up.Finance ministry o...

Economic reforms are supposed to facilitate and hasten growth. At least, that was the stated objective of the introduction of the goods and services tax, the insolvency and bankruptcy code and the rea...

Global warming is a concern worldwide, and the negative environmental effects of buildings — through energy consumption, carbon emission, raw material use and waste — are well-known. A growing wor...

Sentiments matter for economic growth. Optimistic or upbeat sentiments encourage consumers to buy and borrow; businesses, on the other hand, are spurred to plan and invest. But when in reverse gear, d...