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The proposal will also include providing loans at below market rates to real estate developers. But the loan disbursed under this will come with a number of conditions like an upper ceiling on selling price of flats and individual homes.The government is considering a proposal to make home loans cheaper for consumers through interest subsidy, aiming to stimulate demand in the realty sector which has a spin-off effect on many industries like cement and steel, said a senior government official, who declined to be named.
The Department of Commerce has completed most of the procedures related to setting up special economic zones online to streamline various operations regarding these industrial enclaves.These steps will not only help the developers of the tax-free zones apply through a website but will enable them to track the status of their applications in real time.
Oil prices are a barometer of the world economy. Rising prices between 2003 and 2007 reflected the best global economic growth in a generation. This high economic growth was brought to an end not only by underpricing of risk, excess liquidity and over-confidence but also by an increasingly unsustainable commodity boom – of which oil was a crucial part. Now, as the world has dropped into recession, oil prices have fallen by more than half.
Exporters of traditional items including textiles, gems & jewellery, handicraft and leather — hit hardest by the slowdown in the Western markets — may get access to cheaper credit to tide over the current global meltdown. The commerce department and the finance ministry are discussing an incentive package for identified labour-intensive export sectors, which could include provision of credit at a subsidised rate and for a longer period. Incentives may also be given to exporters to diversify to alternate markets less affected by the global crisis.
You can never really understand investing until you weather a market downturn. The valuable lessons learned can help you through the bad times and can be applied to your portfolio when the economy recovers. Listed below are some common investor experiences during tough economic times and the lessons each investor can come away with after surviving the events.
The government is planning to issue a unique identification (ID) to every citizen from December 2009, which would help it in better governance, including targeting kerosene, cooking gas, food, fertiliser, education and electricity subsidies. The task of creating the database may soon be entrusted to the proposed agency — UID Authority of India (UIDAI).
These are uncertain times. The subprime mortgage crisis weighs heavily on the financial markets and it is starting to cause considerable collateral damage to the wider economy. The outlook for 2009 is bleak, and the major economies in the US and Europe can expect deep and prolonged recessions. Some asset managers have felt the full force of the downturn, as collapsing investor confidence has sparked a massive withdrawal of funds.
Despite the global euphoria that greeted Barack Obama’s landslide victory on Tuesday, U.S. stocks posted their greatest post-election decline in history — evidence that investors are now beginning to realize what we’ve been saying all along: All the king’s horses and all the king’s men can’t put the economy together again
The global financial crisis is taking its toll in India’s cities as some despairing investors and stockbrokers seek refuge from their losses and debt in suicide. A wave of financially related deaths over the past month has sparked concerns about the vulnerability of unsophisticated investors and borrowers encouraged by rising markets and easy credit in one of the world’s fastest growing economies.
Hedging means managing risk. A fund manager employs a particular hedging technique in order to mitigate a particular type of risk. For example, a market risk can be hedged against by selling a broad collection of securities short, in equal proportion to one’s long exposure or by buying put options on an index. You can hedge against interest rate, inflation, currency etc. Tools for hedging include raising cash, selling short, buying or selling options, futures, commodity and currency futures etc.
