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MUMBAI (Reuters) -India's foreign exchange reserves stood at $691.5 billion as of May 30, the governor of the country's central bank said on Friday, down $1.2 billion from the previous week and coming off near-eight month highs. The country's FX reserves are now about $13.4 billion below their all-time high hit in September 2024. "These (reserves) are sufficient to fund more than 11 months of goods imports and about 96% of external debt outstanding," Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay Malho ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Airline bosses are tentatively voicing greater confidence in Boeing's ability to deliver jets at the right quality in a step towards ending years of reputational damage for the embattled planemaker. An annual summit of airline leaders in New Delhi this week struck a more optimistic tone about Boeing's recovery from overlapping safety, regulatory and industrial crises, though executives stressed Boeing still had much work left to do. "What we've seen quarter to quarter is a ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India estimates a "minor impact" from U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to increase tariffs on steel and aluminium products as the South Asian country exports low volumes to Washington, the federal steel minister said on Monday. Trump said last week he intends to increase tariffs on imported steel and aluminium to 50% from 25% currently, spurring declines on Monday in steelmakers' stocks in South Korea and Vietnam - major Asian exporters to the U.S. Roughly a quarter of a ...Read More >
MUMBAI (Reuters) -Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Group and U.S.-based BlackRock have received approval from India's markets regulator to start operations for their mutual fund business, the Indian company said on Tuesday. Jio Financial Services, a part of the Reliance Group, had in July 2023 announced the formation of a 50:50 joint venture with the world's largest asset manager to launch asset management services in India. The JV, Jio BlackRock Asset Management, plans to launch a range ...Read More >
India's NTPC (previously the National Thermal Power Corporation) has launched its first 160 megawatt hours (MWh) CO₂ battery energy storage project, to be developed by Triveni Turbine and its energy partner Energy Dome. The project will be executed on a turnkey basis at NTPC's Kudgi plant in Karnataka, India. The initiative aligns with NTPC's strategy to diversify its energy portfolio and increase renewable power generation. The adoption of CO₂ battery technology also supports India's "Make i ...Read More >
(Reuters) - India's Adani Total Gas reported a 20% fall in third-quarter profit on Monday, hurt by higher gas purchase costs following lower supply from the government. The Adani group company's consolidated profit fell 20% to 1.42 billion rupees ($16.4 million) in the three months ended Dec. 31, from a year ago. The government had cut cheaper gas supplies to city gas distributors like Adani Total Gas in October and November, citing lower output, but later restored in January. The company had ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's federal investigating agency has accused liquor giant Diageo and Sequoia Capital of making suspicious payments to a politician's firm to seek favourable government decisions, it said in a document Reuters reviewed on Friday. In the document, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) says Diageo Scotland made a suspicious fund transfer to Indian politician Karti Chidambaram's firm after a 2005 ban on sale of its duty-free products hit sales of its Johnnie Walker whi ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's sugar mills can easily export up to 2 million metric tons of the sweetener this season as domestic supply prospects improve and local prices show a downward trend, the head of a leading industry body said on Wednesday. "The supply situation looks better than initially expected, which is why the government should allow mills to export at least a million or a couple of million tons of sugar," Deepak Ballani, director general of the Indian Sugar Mills Association, tol ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Aviva business model that Indian tax officials say was used to pay agents unlawful commissions from 2017 to 2023 was rolled out internally in 2013 and approved in writing by top India executives, a confidential company document shows. Tax inspectors accuse the British insurer of engaging in a clandestine scheme involving hundreds of individuals and illegal payments of $26 million that used fake invoices to enable the commissions in excess of regulatory caps, Reuters has ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's retail inflation eased in November as soaring vegetable prices moderated, boosting expectations of an interest rate cut by the central bank at its next policy review amid concerns around slowing growth. Retail inflation eased in November to 5.48%, lower than 6.21% in the previous month and below a 5.53% forecast by economists in a Reuters poll. Food inflation slowed down to 9.04% from 10.87% a month earlier. Food accounts for nearly half of the consumption basket. ...Read More >
(Bloomberg) -- Indian bonds are poised to gain while the rupee is set to weaken as analysts bet on a softer monetary policy after the government named career bureaucrat Sanjay Malhotra as the new Reserve Bank of India governor. Most Read from Bloomberg Malhotra, a surprise pick, will take charge from Shaktikanta Das under whom the RBI kept borrowing costs unchanged for almost two years. While Malhotra's views on monetary policy are largely unknown, he recently urged revenue officials to priori ...Read More >
SOLAPUR, India (Reuters) - India is likely to produce a record amount of sugar in the next marketing year from October after millions of farmers expanded cane cultivation, encouraged by ample water supplies and declining prices of competing crops, farmers and industry officials told Reuters. The rebound in production would allow the world's second-largest sugar producer to resume exports in 2025/26, they said, after a lack of rain cut cane yields and led to two years of restrictions. Indian ex ...Read More >
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Foreign investors have stepped up buying of Indian government bonds in the last four sessions, after weaker-than-expected economic growth data last week spurred expectations of monetary policy easing by the central bank. These investors net bought bonds worth over 90 billion rupees ($1.06 billion) under the Fully Accessible Route till Wednesday, a majority of which are part of JPMorgan's debt index, data from Clearing Corporation of India showed. Foreign investors heavily so ...Read More >
BENGALURU (Reuters) - The Indian rupee will break through 85 per U.S. dollar to hit a new low in the next six months even as the Reserve Bank of India continues to intervene to stem the currency's losses, according to a Reuters poll of FX strategists. The results come days after news that growth in India, the world's fastest growing major economy this year, unexpectedly slowed sharply to an annual 5.4% in the latest quarter, triggering speculation the RBI may cut interest rates on Friday. Only ...Read More >
India's Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has announced an ongoing investigation into three electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers for allegedly availing government subsidies fraudulently. The total sum in question amounts to approximately Rs2.97bn (about $35m). The firms under scrutiny, Hero Electric Vehicles, Benling India Energy and Technology, and Okinawa Autotech; they are accused of violating guidelines tied to FAME II. FAME II was launched in 2019 by India's Ministry of Heavy Industries ...Read More >
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