Latha Venkatesh is a Consulting Editor at CNBCTV18. With extensive experience in business journalism, she specializes in markets, macroeconomics, and the banking sector, making her a keen observer of the Reserve Bank of India and financial trends across stocks, currency, debt, and commodities. Latha's insights and expertise have been featured in MSN, moneycontrol.com, and CNBC-TV18.
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By: Latha Venkatesh
Saurabh Garg, Secretary of Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI) at Government of India explains why India is moving from the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) to the Producer Price Index (PPI) for GDP calculations and how the transition could be completed in the coming months after validation. He also clarifies that the revised IIP series remains an output measure and will not directly change GDP estimates.
By: Latha Venkatesh
Nischint Chawathe, Analyst at Kotak Institutional Equities, believes the strong momentum seen in the March quarter has carried into the June quarter.
By: Latha Venkatesh
Santanu Sengupta, Chief India Economist at Goldman Sachs, expects India's GDP to grow 6.8% in the April-June quarter and believes the forecast carries an upside bias.
By: Latha Venkatesh
Suresh Ganapathy, Managing Director and Head of Financial Services Research, expects the momentum to continue through FY27, with HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Axis Bank remaining the firm's preferred private sector lenders. He also expects FIIs to increase exposure to financials while asset quality stays resilient across the banking system.
By: Latha Venkatesh
Shailendra Jhingan, Head of Treasury and Economic Research Group at ICICI Bank expects the RBI to keep rates unchanged over the next few policy meetings, with any hike likely only in the final quarter of the financial year.
By: Reema Tendulkar, Latha Venkatesh
NBFCs are expected to report healthy loan growth in Q1 FY27, supported by resilient demand across diversified lenders, microfinance and gold finance. However, elevated funding costs and margin pressure are likely to shift investor focus towards earnings quality, credit costs and profitability. While microfinance is showing signs of recovery and gold loans remain a key growth segment, analysts expect investors to closely monitor NIMs, asset quality and funding costs during the earnings season.
India's June CPI is expected to rise to 4.24%, crossing the 4% mark for the first time in 18 months after the recent fuel price hike. Headline inflation is seen increasing to 4.97%, while food inflation may remain elevated due to higher cereal prices and El Niño concerns. Core inflation is expected to stay around 4%, indicating that underlying price pressures remain stable.
By: Latha Venkatesh
Neelkanth Mishra, Chief Economist at Axis Bank; Head-Global Research at Axis Capital and Executive Director-Designate at World Bank expects double-digit June-quarter earnings growth, led by banks, and believes earnings revisions will matter more than reported numbers for investors. Mishra shares his outlook on FII flows, AI's impact on IT services, and why consumption and real estate could be the next market leaders.
By: Latha Venkatesh
India's June inflation surprised on the upside, breaching the RBI's 4% target for the first time in 18 months. Economists, however, largely see the spike as food-driven and expect the central bank to remain focused on underlying core inflation.
By: Latha Venkatesh
Rob Kaplan, Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs and former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, expects the Fed to remain data-dependent as officials monitor oil prices, infrastructure investment and inflation trends. Kaplan also said AI-led capital expenditure should continue supporting corporate earnings and expects S&P 500 earnings to rise over the coming years.
