Indian traders are bracing for a year of record government debt supply, which could keep borrowing costs high in the country’s $1.3 trillion bond market.Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Feb. 1 budget could raise gross debt 11% to 16.5 trillion rupees ($180 billion) for the fiscal year starting April 1, according to the average estimate of […]
The gap between credit and deposit growth is underlined by the fact that credit grew at a faster rate of 14.5% as of December 31, 2025, while deposit growth was 12.7%. The cost of raising funds for banks and financial institutions through certificates of deposit (CDs) has increased over the past month or so, while […]
Even as foreign institutional investors (FIIs) flood Indian IPOs with billion-dollar bids, they don’t really make much money, says Samir Arora, founder and fund manager at Helios Capital Management. In a post on “It is pertinent to point out that when the FII quota is oversubscribed by a hundred times in an IPO, FII investors […]