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Tuesday, April 03, 2012
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Thought leadership
| Tags: business,
economy,
survey,
IBR,
economic,
International Business Report,
optimism,
2012,
indicators,
Q1
New data from the International Business Report (IBR) reveals that many mature market businesses are experiencing a more upbeat first quarter – click on the image left to see G7 confidence levels in Q1 in full. This upturn is also having a knock-on effect on emerging economies, with Peru and Brazil leading the way.
Read on for the highlights from our Q1 economic update…
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
| Posted by: Grant Summers
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 12
| Tags: business,
tax,
India,
finance,
economy,
Grant Thornton,
governance,
growth,
India Watch,
UK,
infrastructure,
GDP,
economic,
Capital Markets,
Alex Wright,
Indian Economy,
inflation,
IT
Over the first quarter of 2011, the World’s economies witnessed a number of significant set-backs in their growth stories. The recent natural disasters suffered by Japan and New Zealand, coupled with the on-going political turmoil in the Middle-East, have created an unsettled start to the year.
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| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 12
| Tags: business,
India,
finance,
investment,
economy,
Grant Thornton,
global,
growth,
India Watch,
UK,
Grant Thornton India,
international,
deals,
economic,
Indian Economy,
sectors,
IT,
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 Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 12
| Tags: business,
tax,
India,
finance,
investment,
economy,
Grant Thornton,
global,
governance,
growth,
India Watch,
UK,
infrastructure,
South Asia Group,
Grant Thornton India,
GDP,
South Asia,
economic,
inflation,
IT
The Union Budget 2010-11 was tabled in the backdrop of an improving economic scenario both within India and globally, but fiscal consolidation and expenditure discipline have still been rightly treated as the foremost priorities in this budget.
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| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 12
| Tags: business,
India,
investment,
economy,
Grant Thornton,
global,
China,
growth,
India Watch,
Grant Thornton India,
international,
emerging markets,
IBR,
economic,
Indian Economy,
inflation,
International business report,
IT,
India Economy,
BRIC
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
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| Tags: India,
finance,
investment,
economy,
Grant Thornton,
global,
growth,
India Watch,
UK,
risk,
Grant Thornton India,
international,
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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| Posted by: Sajeev Gandhi
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| Tags: India,
investment,
economy,
Grant Thornton,
global,
China,
growth,
India Watch,
UK,
infrastructure,
risk,
South Asia Group,
Grant Thornton India,
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South Asia,
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Indian Economy,
sectors,
Cross border
India’s economy continued to demonstrate strong growth during 2010. There was significant liquidity in the market with both corporate profits and the sensex posting strong gains for the year. The BSE sensex closed 2010 at 20,509 a respectable 17% uplift during the year. Our view is that this positive trend is likely to be maintained in the medium term given the robustness of the domestic Indian market albeit against a backdrop of western economies which clearly still face some economic challenges.
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
| Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
China
| Tags: finance,
investment,
property,
China,
economic,
market,
Brazil,
Dubai,
crash,
bubble,
boom
High property prices, property tightening policies and the start of declining prices indicate a teetering property market in China, one that the Chinese government is trying to let the steam out of gently. Here Nick Huber tells the story of how the Dubai property bubble burst in 2009, as a hedge fund manager warns that China could be 1,000 times worse.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
| Posted by: Grant Summers
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| Tags: India,
finance,
investment,
Grant Thornton,
global,
South Asia Group,
South Asia,
economic,
Alex Wright,
Indian Economy
Now that we are more than half way through 2010, we are in a position to take stock of the first 6 months of the year and look ahead to what the second half of this year may hold for the Indian economy.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
| Tags: India,
economy,
Grant Thornton,
global,
India Watch,
South Asia Group,
emerging markets,
GDP,
South Asia,
economic,
Capital Markets,
Alex Wright,
London Stock Exchange,
sectors
While the world’s recent economic focus has predominantly been on activities in south-eastern Europe, there continues to be key economic developments throughout many of the world’s emerging markets.
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