ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN

How Coronavirus has upended economics in just a few weeks

Economic orthodoxies are getting tossed aside at a furious pace. Some of them may be gone for good.

Battling COVID-19: What the industry wants

CII has suggested a bouquet of measures to help businesses battling the 21-day shutdown

Nikunj Dalmia of ET Now on converting market crisis to opportunities

Nikunj Dalmia on stock market crisis: These are the times when you don't panic and if you stay calm, stay committed to your financial plann...

Swaminathan Aiyar calls for a bigger Covid package on the lines of the US, says govt shouldn't worry about fiscal deficit to deal with once-in-a-century crisis

In an interview to ET NOW, Swamy said that the government should shed inhibitions about a rising fiscal deficit and should let the Reserve ...

Print money to handle this once-in-a-century crisis: Swaminathan Aiyar

"Our stimulus effort makes us look like pygmies compared with the rest of the world."

Rates slashed, EMIs paused: RBI's stimulus measures enough to counter economic impact of coronavirus?

The Reserve Bank of India, which advanced a meeting of the rate setting panel by a week, Friday announced a 0.75 per cent cut in its policy...

Bruised Indian economy to be battered further by coronavirus: Reuters poll

According to the Reuters poll of economists taken March 25-26, India's economy will expand just 4.0% annually on a year ago in the quarter ...

Moody's cuts India's economic growth in 2020 to 2.5% from 5.3%

Moody's Investors Service on Friday slashed its estimate of India's GDP growth during 2020 calendar year to 2.5 per cent from an earlier es...

India likely to unveil $20b-plus economic stimulus package

The stimulus plan could be as large as Rs 2.3 tn, but final numbers were still in discussion.

Coronavirus sinks U.S. business activity to record low: IHS Markit

U.S. business activity contracted further in March, hitting a record low as the coronavirus pandemic depressed activity in both the manufac...

Coronavirus to impact India's economic growth "severely": D&B

According to Dun & Bradstreet's latest Economy Forecast, the probability of countries entering into recession and companies going bankrupt ...

Real estate investment companies look to cash in on slowdown

According to PropShare Capital, a real estate investment platform, the asset rates are under pressure in the current scenario and lower ass...

Economic growth may fall sharply to 2.6 per cent in 2020-21: SBI Ecowrap

According to a report by SBI Research's Ecowrap, GDP growth for 2019-20 could also see a downward revision from 5 per cent to 4.5 per cent,...

A falling yen may not be the economic cure Japan seeks

The yen, which investors typically snap up as a safe haven in times of financial market stress, fell nearly 10% against the dollar this mon...

Economic package, NPA relief will benefit bank stocks: Sudip Bandyopadhyay

Expectation of package is cheering the financial services market, said Group Chairman of Inditrade Capital.

FM Nirmala Sitharaman announces Rs 1.7 lakh crore relief package for poor

The FM announced a slew of measures to ease the burden on the poor who will be hit hard by the lockdown.

FM Nirmala Sitharaman to announce economic package soon to deal with COVID-19 impact

The announcement is expected to take place at 1 pm on Thursday, according to an official. Earlier this week, the Finance Minister had said ...