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Reserve Bank of India should continue to stay the course until inflation comes down, says Krishna Srinivasan, director of the International Monetary Fund's Asia and Pacific Department. In an interview with Deepshikha Sikarwar on the sidelines of the ongoing annual meeting in Marrakech, he said this is a time when you have to be conservative both on monetary side and fiscal side to bring inflation down durably to build fiscal buffers. Edited Excerpts: There is a new geo-political crisis confronting the world. From India's point of view, what kind of impact do you see? At this point in time, we are trying to assess the impact.

India should be able to tide over the spike in crude oil prices due to the latest conflict in Gaza, International Monetary Fund executive director KV Subramanian noted, saying that the development for the global economy meant more uncertainty. «As it is even before this particular incident there was uncertainty, one because of the high levels of debt in many economies together with elevated commodity prices because of the war in Ukraine. On top of that this adds uncertainty, which may impact, I think, the global growth, possibly, in an even more negative manner,» he told ET on the sidelines of the ongoing annual International Monetary Fund and World Bank meeting here. Crude oil prices jumped 4% soon after the conflict broke out.

Indian economy to grow at 6.5% real GDP for FY24: Finance Ministry Highlighting the capacity constraints in traditional areas of investment, Bajoria said that these sectors require a higher degree of investment, including from the government. Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels. Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights! Click here! In the period between 2005-10, the Indian economy had grown at an average of around 8 percent.

NEW DELHI : The International Monetary Fund (IMF) lifted its 2023-24 growth projection for India to 6.3% from its July estimate of 6.1%, citing “stronger-than-expected consumption" during the June quarter. In contrast, the agency expects global growth of 3% in 2023 and 2.9% in 2024, with advanced economies expanding by 1.5% in 2023 and 1.4% in 2024. The Washington-based agency presents India’s economic growth forecast on a fiscal year basis while it uses the calendar year for other economies.

India is hosting the 8th BRICS International Competition Conference (ICC) in New Delhi under the aegis of the Competition Commission of India (CCI). BRICS represents 42% of the world's population, 26% of global GDP, and 18% of global exports. It has seen a more than four-fold increase in their annual FDI inflows from $84 billion in 2001 to $355 billion in 2021. Their share in global FDI inflows also doubled from 11% in 2001 to 22% in 2021.

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A group of leaders in the agriculture and food industries is launching a national alliance to work toward achieving net zero in Canada’s agri-food sector by 2050.

Reports of the demise of excess U.S. household savings were greatly exaggerated. Revised government data indicate that Americans have hundreds of billions of dollars more in extra cash stashed away than previously believed. 

The Federal Trade Commission’s long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against Amazon is the most aggressive move it has taken yet to tame the market power of a company that’s become synonymous with online shopping and fast deliveries

Indian space economy is estimated at $8 billion, Goenka explained, while briefing reporters in Bengaluru, as per a report by news agency PTI. “As we unveil the decadal vision for the Indian Space Economy, we emphasise that the future of the Indian space sector is a shared endeavour. Hence, our strategy fosters an era of collaboration between all stakeholders to accelerate growth," he was further quoted as saying.

By Philip Blenkinsop

Treasuries rallied on Tuesday, pushing two-year yields to their lowest in a month, due to a combination of demand for safe-haven assets amid ongoing violence in the Middle East and dovish Federal Reserve remarks that suggested the central bank may be done raising interest rates. Cash Treasury markets had been closed for a holiday on Monday, so Tuesday morning was traders' first chance to react to Palestinian militants' attack on Israel over the weekend as well as Fed officials' overnight comments. Benchmark 10-year yields were on track for their largest daily drop since July, while those on the two-year were on pace for the biggest daily decline since late August. «We had dovish statements yesterday by Fed officials and then you have flight to safety here from the tragic events in Israel. So people are being a little bit of cautious here,» said Stan Shipley, managing director and macro research analyst at Evercore ISI in New York. «We probably have seen the peak in rates here as seasonal factors are favorable for lower rates in November and December.

World Bank President Ajay Banga said on Tuesday that the Israel-Gaza conflict is an unnecessary global economic shock that will make it harder for central banks to achieve soft landings in many economies if it spreads. «It's a humanitarian tragedy and it's an economic shock we don't need,» Banga told Reuters on the sidelines of the World Bank-International Monetary Fund annual meetings in Morocco. Central banks were «beginning to feel a little more confident that there was an opportunity for a soft landing, and this just makes it harder», Banga said. Banga said there was less immediate economic impact than at the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year because the Israel-Gaza conflict does not impact exports of oil, grains and fertilizers. But it does transmit through financial markets, with dollar assets suddenly rising, he said. Inflation has come down in recent months, prices and wages were stabilizing and markets had become used to the idea that rates would stay higher for longer, Banga said, adding that another prolonged conflict could upset those dynamics. «It's the side effects of all that.

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Investing.com -- Several Federal Reserve policymakers are due to deliver closely-watched speeches on Tuesday, with investors keen to receive any clues about how a recent spike in U.S. Treasury yields could impact the central bank's interest rate path.

MARRAKECH, Morocco (Reuters) — World Bank President Ajay Banga said on Tuesday that the Israel-Gaza conflict is an unnecessary global economic shock that will make it harder for central banks to achieve soft landings in many economies if it spreads.

By Harry Robertson and Tom Westbrook

Top real estate and banking officials are calling on the Federal Reserve to stop raising interest rates as the industry suffers through surging housing costs and a «historic shortage» of available homes for sale.

More headwinds are barrelling down on Canada’s housing market.

Competition Commission of India (CCI) will soon come out with regulations around the proposed leniency-plus regime, which will encourage companies under investigation for cartelisation to report other cartels and get their own penalties reduced, chairperson Ravneet Kaur said on Tuesday. The leniency-plus regime was proposed in the Competition (Amendment) Act 2023. It is aimed at creating a structure that will incentivise companies under scrutiny for spilling secrets of other cartels. The regulator will soon seek stakeholder comments for the regulations and finalise them, Kaur said in her first press conference after taking over as the head of the CCI in May. Kaur said competition authorities of the BRICS grouping will meet this week to deliberate on existing and emerging anti-trust issues, with India hosting the conference after a gap of 10 years.

Investing.com -- The International Monetary Fund has maintained its global growth forecast for 2023, but slashed its projection for next year, predicting a «slow and uneven» recovery for the world economy from the COVID-19 pandemic and the outbreak of the war in Ukraine.