Leading stock exchange BSE on Tuesday said its mutual fund distribution platform StAR MF has processed a record 2.52 crore transactions worth Rs 34,923 crore in January. The exchange surpassed its all-time highest record transactions of 2.44 crore achieved in December 2022, the exchange said in a release. The value of transactions processed in January [...]
Equity benchmarks climbed in early trade on Wednesday amid an overall positive trend in the global markets and ahead of the presentation of Union Budget 2023-24. The 30-share BSE benchmark Sensex jumped 516.97 points to 60,066.87. The broader NSE Nifty climbed 153.15 points to 17,815.30. From the Sensex pack, ICICI Bank, Tech Mahindra, Asian Paints, [...]
Digital payments across the country registered a growth of 24.13 per cent in a year through September 2022, as per RBI's index that measures the adoption of online transactions. The newly-constituted RBI's Digital Payments Index (RBI-DPI) stood at 377.46 in September 2022 against 349.30 in March 2022 and 304.06 in September 2021. "The RBI-DPI Index [...]
Increasing exports to markets such as Brazil, South Africa and Saudi Arabia are boosting the growth of the country's outbound shipments, FIEO said on Tuesday. Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) President A Sakthivel said the Economic Survey has rightly highlighted India's growing and diversifying merchandise trade. "The new diversified markets, including those of Brazil, [...]
Asset management companies are set to move to a shorter redemption payment cycle of T+2 for equity schemes from Wednesday. At present, funds are transferred to investors' bank account within 3 days after the completion of the redemption process. Moving to the T+2 cycle for equity schemes will benefit mutual fund investors. Akhil Chaturvedi, Chief [...]
Goods and Services Tax collection is showing a higher buoyancy than the pre-GST system, auguring well for future resource mobilisation in the economy, the Economic Survey 2022-23 presented in Parliament said on Tuesday. Giving a 5-year analysis of tax collection pre and post-GST, the survey said the taxes which were subsumed in the Goods and [...]
The recent collapse of the crypto exchange FTX and the ensuing sell-off in the crypto markets have placed a spotlight on the vulnerabilities in the crypto ecosystem, the Economic Survey 2022-23 presented in Parliament said on Tuesday. Crypto assets are self-referential instruments and do not strictly pass the test of being a financial asset because [...]
The government's fiscal deficit as of end-December touched 59.8 per cent of the full-year Budget Estimate on subdued growth in revenue collections, according to finance ministry data released on Tuesday. In actual terms, the fiscal deficit -- which is the difference between expenditure and revenue -- was Rs 9,92,976 crore during the April-December period of [...]
Indian companies mobilised Rs 5.06 lakh crore through the equity and debt routes during April-November 2022, a drop of 8.5 per cent from the year-ago period, the Economic Survey 2022-23 said on Tuesday. Fund mobilisation through debt contributed a lion's share to the overall fund-raising during the period under review. Out of the cumulative Rs [...]
Healthy growth in the procurement of goods and services by central and state governments through GeM portal is helping the platform to catch up with global e-commerce giants like Amazon and Flipkart, the Economic Survey said on Tuesday. The Government e-Market (GeM) portal was launched on August 9, 2016 by the commerce ministry for online [...]
