The central government is yet to address key issues that include changes in its tax policies, which is a factor behind the delay...

Analysts are blaming the shortfall on advance tax outflow and tepid spending by the government amid robust tax collections...

On Thursday, most of the Asian markets traded in the red with benchmark indices slipping up to 2 per cent...

According to a note by the economic research wing of SBI, the average increase in G-Sec yields across 3, 5 and 10 years is around 31 basis points since budget...

The govt will borrow Rs 88,000 crore in the next 45 days and a collosal Rs 12 lakh crore in the next fiscal to help pump-prime an economy felled by the lockdown...

At an auction on Friday, the central bank could sell only Rs 9,000 crore of bonds against Rs 31,000 crore on offer ...

Earlier this month, the central bank had announced that it will conduct OMOs on state development loans (SDLs)...

The announcement comes after the Centre said it will borrow Rs 1.10 lakh crore, which will be passed on to the states...

SDLs are dated securities issued by state governments in the primary market through normal auctions which are similar to those conducted for bonds issued by the central government...

It said comfortable liquidity conditions will be maintained, and market operations conducted in the form of outright and special open market operations (OMOs)...