monetary policy
Gautam Adani has been making big plans in order to get up a total of Rs 10,000 crore through an eligible institutional placement (QIP) of shares of the Adani Enterprises, Adani Power and Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone. He wants to do this so that the group’s growth rate gets a boost. The money [...] Continue Reading »
It might come as a relief for homebuyers hit by a volatile floating rate loans. The National Housing Bank (NHB) has planned to use a large portion of tax-free bond proceeds to shore up long term fixed-rate mortgage loans manily for low and moderate income housing in urban areas and suburbs. NHB has been working [...] Continue Reading »
Infrastructure sector is likely to be affected by the RBI decision to award the IDFC a full-fledged banking license, as it has been facing a slowdown already and the company was a leading an integrated infrastructure finance player ,as told by the State Bank of India (SBI), the country’s largest lender. Arundhati Bhattacharya, SBI chairperson [...] Continue Reading »
The RBI may issue orders to scrap penalty on pre-payment of all retail and small corporate loans. The central bank disputes the practice of charging pre-payment penalty on any loan since the entire system has moved to floating rates — be it deposits or loans — where rates are charged based on the prevailing markets, [...] Continue Reading »
A fall of 41 per cent of Net Profit in the quarter ended December 2013,has been registered of top 25 real estate companies, in comparison to peak period of quarter ended March 2012.As per the report by global realty consultancy Knight Frank the net profit margin have fallen from 13.6 per cent to 9.7 per [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai: On a move to step up real estate sales, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cut Repo Rate for the third time since January by 25 basis points. However, the lowering of the Repo rate by 0.25 percent may no sooner be beneficial to home loan seekers as it is too small to have [...] Continue Reading »
The Reserve Bank asked urban co-operative banks (UCBs) to stop levying penalty on pre- payment of home loans on floating interest rates with immediate effect. Earlier this month, RBI had also asked the commercial banks to stop charging such penalties. The removal of foreclosure charges or pre- payment penalty on home loans will lead to [...] Continue Reading »
