ECONOMY


Moneylife Digital Team 24 June 2025
A dramatic family feud has erupted within one of India's most influential media dynasties, threatening to tear apart the multi-billion rupee Sun TV Network empire. The dispute centres on two brothers whose partnership once symbolised the perfect blend of political acumen and business prowess,...

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On 6th June, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) surprised the markets, slicing the repo rate by 50bps (basis points) to 5.5% and cutting the cash reserve ratio by 100bps, phased over four 25-point tranches from September to November. The move, expected to inject Rs2.5 lakh crore into the system,...

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India has just overtaken Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy, with nominal gross domestic product (GDP) clocking in at US$4.19trn (trillion). Yet, behind this headline triumph lies a serious contradiction. Nearly 65% of India’s population still relies on agriculture and allied...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 June 2025
Union finance minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman, while chairing the 29th Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) meeting in Mumbai on 10 June 2025, urged regulators and departments to accelerate the process of returning unclaimed financial assets to their rightful owners through...

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Rajiv Bajaj, chairman of Bajaj Auto, sounded the alarm last week: if China were to restrict exports of rare earths—crucial for the magnets in electric vehicles (EVs)—India’s nascent EV industry could grind to a halt. His anxiety is not unwarranted. As geopolitical tensions rise and trade wars...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 June 2025
In its most forceful monetary policy move in nearly five years, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut the repo ate by 50bps (basis points) to 5.5% in June 2025. This is the third consecutive reduction this year, bringing the cumulative rate cut to 100bps  since February. With inflation easing to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 June 2025
As expected, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in its third monetary policy committee (MPC) meeting for 2025, decided to cut the repo rate, the central bank's rate for short-term loans to banks, by 50bps (basis points) to 5.5% from 6%, at the lowest level in nearly three years. Consequently, the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 June 2025
India's economy demonstrated robust performance in the FY24-25, with the national statistics office (NSO) releasing encouraging provisional estimates that paint a picture of sustained economic expansion across multiple sectors. The latest data, compiled by the ministry of statistics and...

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Tanvi Deshpande  and   Mithilesh Dhar Dubey (IndiaSpend) 28 May 2025
In a year when India braced for blistering heat waves, May 2025 unleashed unprecedented rainfall activity, catching the country off guard with almost double or 85.7% more rainfall than usual. In fact, central India has seen five times the usual rainfall this month (by May 27) and south India...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 May 2025
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has completed the first review of Pakistan’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF), approving a US$1bn (billion) disbursement in recognition of the country’s steady progress on economic reforms. Alongside this, IMF also greenlit a US$1.4bn package under the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 April 2025
India’s southwest monsoon for 2025 is expected to be above normal, with the country likely to receive 105% of its long-period average (LPA) rainfall, according to the India meteorological department’s (IMD) long-range forecast. The positive monsoon outlook brings hope for a strong agricultural...

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Last week, Donald Trump set the global trading system ablaze by imposing massive additional tariffs on countries with large trade surpluses with the US, such as China (34%), Japan (24%), South Korea (26%), Vietnam (46%), India (27%), the European Union (20%) and others. The repercussions are...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 April 2025
Continuing with their tariff-tariff games, US president Donald Trump hit China with a 125% tariff after China retaliated with an 84% tariff on all US goods imported into that country. In a significant shift in trade policy, president Trump also announced a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs for...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 April 2025
As expected, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in its second monetary policy committee (MPC) meeting for 2025, decided to cut the repo rate, the central bank's rate for short-term loans to banks, by 25bps (basis points) to 6.0% from 6.25%. Consequently, the standing deposit facility (SDF) rate...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 March 2025
The Indian government’s tax coffers appear robust as direct tax collections for the financial year 2024–25 surged by 13.13% to reach Rs21.27 lakh crore as of 16 March 2025. This significant rise comes, despite muted growth in corporate advance tax collections during the fourth quarter,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 March 2025
The US economy, once hailed for its rapid post-COVID recovery, may now be headed towards a period of stagnation and uncertainty, according to the latest research report by the State Bank of India (SBI). The report highlights a series of troubling economic indicators, including declining gross...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 March 2025
India's retail inflation has dropped below the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) 4% target, hitting a seven-month low of 3.6% in February, down from 4.3% in January. This decline was primarily driven by a significant drop in food inflation, which fell to 3.7%—its lowest level since May 2023....

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 March 2025
The cost of vegetarian and non-vegetarian thalis in India declined by 5% in February compared to the previous month, according to a report by CRISIL Intelligence. The reduction is attributed to lower prices of essential ingredients, including vegetables, particularly onions, tomatoes, potatoes...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 March 2025
Taking cognisance of the tight liquidity conditions, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) decided to conduct an open market operation (OMO) purchase auction of government of India securities worth Rs1 lakh crore and buy and sell swap auction of US dollar (USD) and Indian rupee (INR) for US$10bn...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 March 2025
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may need to inject an additional Rs1trn (trillion) or Rs1 lakh crore in liquidity into the banking system by the end of March to stabilise financial markets, according to a research report by the State Bank of India (SBI). The report warns that the current...

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