Latha Venkatesh

Anubhuti Sahay, Head of India Economic Research at Standard Chartered Bank, anticipates a total of 75 basis points in Reserve Bank of India (RBI) rate cuts between 2025 and 2026, including up to 50 basis points between April and June.

On Monday, the Indian rupee recorded its sharpest single-day fall in two years, closing at ₹86.50 and hitting an intraday low of ₹86.58 against the US dollar.

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be announcing the Union Budget 2025 on February 1 2025. To discuss how budget 2025 can stimulate the economy, CNBC-TV18 spoke with Neelkanth Mishra, Chief Economist at Axis Bank, Head of Global Research Axis Capital.

Misra, who also serves as the Head of Global Research and a Whole Time Director of Axis Capital, stated, "There is ₹80,000 to ₹1 lakh crore of space for the government. The multiplier effect is much stronger when this revenue is spent on capital expenditure. If we consider the next year's GDP estimate, which is around ₹360 trillion, spending an additional ₹50,000 crore on a tax cut would only be a rounding error."

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be announcing the Union Budget 2025 on February 1 2025. To discuss what stock markets should expect from Budget 2025, CNBC-TV18 spoke with Neelkanth Mishra, Chief Economist at Axis Bank, Head of Global Research at Axis Capital; Sajjid Chinoy, Head of Asia Economic Research at JPMorgan; Samiran Chakraborty, Chief Economist for India at Citi.

Kamakshya Trivedi, Head of Global FX, Interest Rates, and Emerging Markets Strategy at Goldman Sachs stated that the Indian rupee, which has remained relatively stable for a long time, is expected to weaken further against the dollar.

Anil Swarup, former Secretary of the Government of India along with industry experts Nikhil Nigania, Director and Senior Analyst at Bernstein; Mohit Bhargava, Senior Advisor-IECC at University of California, Berkeley and Former CEO of NTPC Green Energy, Sabyasachi Majumdar, Senior Director of Careedge Ratings shared their insights on the challenges and expectations surrounding India's power distribution sector.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has resumed daily variable rate repos (VRR) from January 15, aiming to provide banks with easier access to liquidity.

Neeraj Gambhir, Group Executive and Head-Treasury, Markets and Wholesale Banking Products at Axis Bank says the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) new

Mahesh Misra of India Mortgage Guarantee Corporation suggests updating tax exemptions set in 2014 to match rising housing costs and proposes a 2% stamp duty for first-time buyers or young borrowers.