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Friday, October 12, 2012
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 18
| Tags: India,
investment,
infrastructure,
FTSE,
India Economy,
Real Estate,
FTSE AIM 100,
India economy 2012,
India Watch Smaller,
Caps Index 2012,
index figures,
reforms 2012,
India's Power sector
The year to date performance of the Grant Thornton India Watch Index continues to remain strong, although this quarter saw underperformance against its peer indices. Investors’ concern over the slowing down of the Indian economy, depreciation of the Indian Rupee and the political uncertainty surrounding economic reforms was reflected in the third quarter.
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Wednesday, August 01, 2012
| Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
India
| Tags: India,
business,
growth,
expansion,
strategy,
BRIC,
India Economy,
opportunities,
BRICS,
new markets,
location,
global growth,
BRICs, India, new markets, growth, expansion, business, location, Indian economy, strategy, opportunities, global growth
What are the opportunities and the issues for UK businesses seeking to enter the Indian market? Find out in our business profile of India – part of our ‘breaking into the BRICs’ series.
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Monday, January 16, 2012
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 15
| Tags: India,
Grant Thornton,
economy,
growth,
performance,
India Watch,
emerging markets,
inflation,
India Economy,
interest rates,
inflation 2011,
interest rates 2011,
India Economy 2011,
Rupee Devaluation 2011,
economic advisory council,
Rupee,
political direction,
stock exchange
As we enter what will hopefully be a more promising year in economic terms for many of the world’s economies, let us take this opportunity to take a look back at the year just passed.
2011 was somewhat of an annus horribilis, with natural disasters in Japan and New Zealand, political uprisings across North Africa, riots in some of the UK’s major cities and what could still be, an economic time-bomb in the form of the Euro-zone debt crisis. All these factors, and many others, led to the continued economic uncertainty seen in both 2009 and 2010, and India, like many other emerging markets was not immune to the global economic turmoil.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
| Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
India
| Tags: India,
business,
India Watch,
data,
LSE,
subscribe,
index,
India Economy,
India GDP
Grant Thornton’s quarterly India Watch, in association with the London Stock Exchange (LSE), is a valuable information source for anyone involved in UK/India business. If you’d like to receive information on Indian companies listed on the London markets, M&A and financial reporting news, and expert analysis on the Indian economy, here’s how to get our next bulletin delivered to your inbox …
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 14
| Tags: India,
investment,
growth,
emerging markets,
GDP,
India Economy,
healthcare,
IT services,
Capital goods,
FMCG,
Listed Indian Companies,
equities,
developed countries
Indian markets have had a challenging 2011, first on domestic issues, and more recently on ‘global cues’. But how much will global events hurt Indian GDP and corporates? Not as much as expected.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 12
| Tags: India,
business,
finance,
investment,
Grant Thornton,
economy,
growth,
global,
UK,
India Watch,
international,
Grant Thornton India,
deals,
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Indian Economy,
IT,
sectors,
India Economy
During the first quarter of 2011, India witnessed 143 merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions compared to 188 in the corresponding quarter of 2010. M&A transaction values for the period were estimated at US$17.88bn (Q1 2010 equaled US$17.44bn).
In Q1 2011, there was 60 cross-border transactions of which 26 were inbound transactions (into India) with a total value of US$13.75bn. Whereas, in comparison to Q1 2010 there were 69 cross-border transactions of which 23 were inbound with a value of US$1.12 bn.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
| Posted by: Grant Summers
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 12
| Tags: India,
business,
finance,
investment,
Grant Thornton,
economy,
growth,
UK,
India Watch,
LSE,
infrastructure,
South Asia Group,
Grant Thornton India,
aim,
South Asia,
Fiona Owen,
Capital Markets,
FTSE,
IT,
India Economy
For the first quarter of 2011, the Grant Thornton India Watch Index* made a 1.19% gain, which proved to be the only index to perform positively in the quarter in comparison to the FTSE100, FTSE ASEAN, FTSE AIM All-Share, FTSE AIM 100 and FTSE AIM UK 50.
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| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 12
| Tags: India,
business,
investment,
Grant Thornton,
economy,
China,
growth,
global,
India Watch,
international,
emerging markets,
IBR,
Grant Thornton India,
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inflation,
Indian Economy,
International business report,
IT,
BRIC,
India Economy
According to the latest results of the Grant Thornton International Business Report* (IBR) over Q4 2010 and Q1 2011 92% of Indian senior executives surveyed said they had an optimistic outlook for their country’s economy over the next 12 months, the second highest result globally, and an 8% rise from 12 months ago. Only Chile was more optimistic at 95%.
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Friday, January 21, 2011
| Posted by: Grant Summers
Categories:
| Tags: India,
finance,
investment,
Grant Thornton,
economy,
growth,
global,
UK,
India Watch,
risk,
international,
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aim,
GDP,
economic,
Capital Markets,
Alex Wright,
FTSE,
sectors,
India Economy
As we say farewell to 2010, we can take this opportunity to reflect upon the economic environment in India over the past year and also the opportunity to focus on some of the key areas of economic importance for the year ahead.
The first half of 2010 saw significant year on year growth, with GDP ranging between 8.5% and 8.8%. The year, however, was not without its problems, as highlighted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), economic activity in both the manufacturing and service sectors in India slowed in the 3rd quarter of the year while infrastructural development and investment continued to cause concern, along with India’s ‘old friend’ inflation.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
| Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
India
| Tags: India,
business,
statistics,
report,
UK,
data,
BBC,
David Cameron,
news,
trade,
India Economy,
Divya Baweja
Trade friction means that India and the UK shouldn’t rely on historical ties to keep deals afloat but should focus on feeding their mutual interests. What the two sides have to offer each other in the global economy was the subject of a recent report by BBC India.
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