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
Gita Gopinath says India's current account deficit is manageable, but weaker foreign investment flows and the absence of a strong AI-led growth narrative could limit the country's ability to attract global capital and benefit from shifting economic trends.
By: Latha Venkatesh
Gita Gopinath said the Reserve Bank of India should avoid using aggressive currency defence measures or rate hikes amid external shocks, warning that artificially supporting the rupee could discourage investors and hurt economic activity.
By: Latha Venkatesh
Sue Lee, Head-Markets Asia South at Citi, says geopolitical tensions and the global AI investment boom are diverting capital away from India in the short term, despite the country's strong underlying fundamentals. She believes a robust IPO pipeline could help attract fresh foreign inflows and points to continued investments in manufacturing, AI data centres and Global Capability Centres (GCCs) as evidence of sustained long-term interest in India.
By: Latha Venkatesh
Jane Fraser, Chair and CEO of Citi, highlighted Citi India's strong post-restructuring performance, with growth in revenue, profits and balance sheet size after the consumer banking exit. Fraser also expressed confidence in AI's ability to create new economic opportunities and said companies should use the technology to improve cybersecurity and productivity.
India's economy likely grew 7.3% in the March quarter and 7.5% in FY26, according to a CNBC-TV18 poll, supported by resilient domestic demand, investment activity and strong corporate earnings.
By: Latha Venkatesh
A panel of economists comprising Aditi Nayar, Chief Economist at ICRA, Sakshi Gupta, Vice President and Senior Economist at HDFC Bank, and Rajani Sinha, Chief Economist at CareEdge Ratings, said the robust performance of the services sector, healthy consumption and stronger investment activity have provided a cushion against external shocks and could help limit the downside risks to growth in FY27.
By: Latha Venkatesh
The RBI's decision to absorb hedging costs on fresh FCNR(B) deposits and widen foreign access to long-term government bonds is expected to boost capital inflows, ease banking system funding pressures and provide support to the rupee, according to economists and banking executives who spoke to CNBC-TV18.
By: Latha Venkatesh
Ananth Narayan, Former Whole-Time Member of SEBI and S Naren, ED & CIO of ICICI Prudential MF believe the reforms remove key barriers for overseas investors, strengthen confidence in the rupee, and could attract billions of dollars into India's debt markets over time, while paving the way for deeper global financial integration.
By: Hormaz Fatakia, Latha Venkatesh
Shares of Punjab & Sind Bank and Bank of Baroda are the top gainers on the PSU Bank index, trading with gains of around 1.5%, while IDFC First Bank is among the top gainer on the Nifty Bank index, trading 4% higher after brokerage firm HSBC initiated coverage of the stock.
Kaushik Das, Chief Economist at Deutsche Bank, Mitul Kotecha, Head of FX & EM Macro Strategy Asia at Barclays and Neeraj Gambhir, Group Executive & Head Treasury, Markets & Wholesale Banking Products at Axis Bank expect the new framework for foreign currency deposits and overseas borrowings to attract significant inflows, strengthen India's external position and reduce the risk of sharp currency depreciation and market volatility.
