Foreign Institutional Investment Every day we come across the term foreign institutional investors. FII portrays the image of any giant hovering over the Indian equity market with the ability to shower bulk cash which in turn can yank up or hammer stock prices easily. These investors control 40 per cent of the freely traded stocks […]
Coal – the Biggest Fuel The recent travails of coal companies in the USA due to low natural gas prices has led many people to think that the days of coal are over. However many people are missing the fact that there are massive coal shortages in India and China. These emerging giants depend on […]
Nuclear Power Corporation of India India’s cash strapped government has been trying to sell shares of public sector undertakings in 2012 without much success. The general economic downturn, bad investor sentiment, unrealistic valuations have meant that most of the share sales have been not occurred and some that have been completed are mainly due to […]
India recently joined the global solar trade wars with the Ministry of Commerce starting an investigation into dumping of solar cells on a complaint made by Indian solar manufacturers association. Note Indian domestic solar producers have been almost been completely wiped out by imports of Chinese solar panels and First Solar (US solar thin film […]
Among fast growing developing countries, India is distinctive for the role of the service sector. Where earlier developers grew by exporting labor-intensive manufactures, India has relied to a greater extent on services. Post Independence India was known to be the agrarian economy with major share of GDP coming from the Agriculture sector. After the crisis […]
The Indian Government has finally come out with a policy mandating 5% compulsory blending of ethanol with fuel. The Oil Marketing Companies will have to procure ethanol from the biofuel producers and in case of shortfall will have to import the fuel. Note 13 states had already imposed a 2% blending mandate and this will […]