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Cutting Forex Outflows To Stem Rupee Fall

From the ET: Indian authorities will this week discuss imposing restrictions on overseas investments by local companies and curbing pre-payments of foreign ...

November PMI at a 3 Month High

India’s Purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI) accelerated to a three month high in November 2011 to 52.3, from October’s 50.3. (This is a composite index, a ...

Q2 GDP Growth at 6.9%

The September Quarter GDP numbers are out and we have a headline number of 6.9%. Note that this is released by MOSPI which is notorious for revising data ...

RBI lets Iran Take Rupees For Oil

From The Hindu: In an effort to resolve a long-standing payment crisis, the Reserve Bank of India has given permission to the Central Bank of Iran to open ...

Real Estate Prices Can’t Fall, And More

Subra debunks the myth that real estate prices can’t fall. I agree with him. Real estate prices have fallen big time in the past, and will continue to when ...

Slovenia “On Brink Of Collapse”?

Mike Shedlock shares an interesting letter about Slovenia (whose bonds went to 7% recently): I am an economist from Slovenia (I have written you before about ...

September 2011 IIP at 1.81%

The Index of Industrial Production has showed a miserably low growth of 1.81% since last year. But I don’t trust this data so we can’t read too much into ...

Europe Decides…Something

The crisis in Europe has been stunningly reversed, or so the markets think. Details are sketchy but we have this: Banks and other holders will voluntarily take ...

RBI Raises Rates by 0.25% to 8.5%

RBI has raised interest rates by 0.25%, taking the repo rate to 8.5% and the reverse repo to 7.5%. The repo rate is what banks pay to borrow overnight from the ...

RBI Straddles Growth and Inflation Before Rate Announcement

The latest RBI macroeconomic survey (Oct 2011) precedes their announcement on monetary policy today. Key parts in their outlook: Growth risks have increased on ...