International and Emerging Markets Blog
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 17
| Tags: India,
growth,
inflation,
interest rates,
valuations,
India economy 2012,
Manmohan Singh,
high inflation,
depreciation of the rupee,
India's finance minister,
indian rupee
In this economic update we take a look back over the last six months and review what progress and developments have taken place in India’s economy. In the first three months of 2012 India’s economy grew at its slowest rate since 2003 with GDP growth of only 5.3% in comparison to the same period in 2011 – well below analyst expectations and a decline of around 80 basis points from the previous quarter (October 2011 to December 2011). The wider view of India’s economic position also shows a substantial decline in economic growth. For the financial year to March 2012, India’s real GDP fell to around 6.5%, down from 8.4% in the previous financial year.
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Monday, April 16, 2012
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 16
| Tags: India,
India Watch,
inflation,
foreign direct investment,
sector trends,
Deals 2012,
agriculture and energy sectors,
london markets 2012,
indian SMEs,
Smaller caps index,
london stock exchange,
Eurozone
It appears market watchers were right to be optimistic. Having fallen 11.27% during 2011, the Grant Thornton India Watch Smaller Caps Index outperformed all major indices between January and March 2012, closing at 24% up.
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Friday, February 17, 2012
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Brazil,
China ,
India,
Thought leadership
| Tags: India,
finance,
investment,
China,
report,
growth,
insight,
GDP,
inflation,
Brazil,
Russia,
BRIC,
forecast,
global economy,
optimism,
BRICS,
emerging economies,
analysis,
Keep up to date with the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) – how they are propping up the global economy but also some of the issues they face in 2012 on finance, inflation and investment. Here are some of the highlights from Grant Thornton’s latest survey report.
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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,
India Economy 2011,
interest rates 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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| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 15
| Tags: deals,
inflation,
acquisitions,
sectors,
mergers and acquisitions,
india,
private equity,
trends,
e-commerce,
inbound,
foreign direct investment,
deal 2011,
outbound,
private equity 2011,
mergers and acquisitions 2011,
inflation rates,
public markets
Amidst the ongoing global economic woes, rising domestic inflation and interest rates, the weakening rupee and a volatile Sensex, 2011 has contributed to robust Indian deal numbers. Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and Private Equity (PE) in India clocked up 961 deals with a total value of to US$51 billion in 2011 compared to 971 deals amounting to US$62 billion in 2010.
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Thursday, December 01, 2011
| Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Brazil,
China ,
Russia,
Korea,
India,
South Africa,
Thought leadership
| Tags: business,
economy,
report,
growth,
global,
survey,
international,
emerging markets,
IBR,
insight,
inflation,
International business report,
trends,
recovery,
global economy,
2012,
Ed Nusbaum
What will 2012 bring for both mature and emerging markets? Read on for our major new report surveying demand, employment, investment, inflation and access to finance across 40 economies. It’s a must-read for any business looking to navigate international opportunities at this difficult time.
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Thursday, November 03, 2011
| Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Brazil,
China ,
India
| Tags: statistics,
China,
GDP,
inflation,
Economist,
conference,
BRIC,
BRICs,
Indonesia,
High Growth Markets Summit,
Jim O'Neill,
emerging economies,
renminbi,
Korea,
Mexico,
Turkey,
investment banks,
Growth 8,
keynote
The Economist’s High-Growth Markets conference, held in London in September, closed with a view of how the world’s most powerful emerging economies are set to change the global economic landscape in the next decade. So who are the ‘Growth 8’ and what other trends are important to note?
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 14
| Tags: India,
economy,
growth,
India Watch,
inflation,
FTSE,
economic growth,
IMF,
Dow Jones,
growth rate,
Indian Rupee
As we enter the final quarter of 2011, the world’s economies remain on a knife edge. Economic concerns coming out of the US and the eurozone continue to cause uncertainty across global markets. These effects can be clearly seen across the world’s market indices. For example, in the year to date, the Dow Jones has seen a fall of nearly 6%, the FTSE 100 a 12% fall and India’s Sensex Index is down a remarkable 23% (with the last quarter seeing the worst fall for almost 3 years).
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Saturday, July 16, 2011
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 13
| Tags: India,
economy,
China,
growth,
UK,
India Watch,
South Asia Group,
Anuj Chande,
Capital Markets,
inflation,
RBI,
Reserve Bank of India
This halfway point in the calendar year provides us with an ideal opportunity to review India’s economic and political status over the past few months and also to look forward to what the remainder of the year might have in store.
There seems no better item to start with then what has now become a fairly routine announcement from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Last month the RBI raised interest rates for the 10th time in 18 months. The repurchase rate was raised by 25 basis points to 7.5% as the RBI continued to try and curb inflationary pressure. As with the first quarter of the year, wholesale-price inflation (around 9.1% year-on-year to the end of May) continues to be fuelled by high oil prices and strong domestic demand.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
| Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
China ,
Russia,
India
| Tags: India,
business,
links,
China,
M&A,
innovation,
UKIBC,
banking,
inflation,
Russia,
BRIC,
Japan,
BRICS
Catch up on the top news stories and opinion from international and emerging markets with our pick of the best recent reads.
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