Industrial Growth

Retail inflation spikes to 7-month high of 3.05% in May on costlier food articles; factory output grows 3.4% in April

The previous high was in October 2018, when the retail inflation print came in at 3.38 percent.

IIP at 1.7%, CPI at 2.57% in January: Growth slowdown disappointing, but wasn't unexpected; MPC may have reason to rush for rate cut

Industrial growth is an important indicator of the real sector as most of the GDP growth we have seen so far is due to services where the government plays an important role

Social norms keep Indian women out of labour market; focus on behaviour change, non-cognitive skills could bring turnaround

Analysis of previous NSSO rounds shows that the Indian labour market lost 1.96 crore women workforce between 2004 and 2011 and 53 percent of this drop occurred in rural India

Industrial growth remains subdued at 2.4% in December on contraction in mining, poor show by manufacturing sector

Industrial output growth remained subdued at 2.4 percent in December 2018 on account of contraction in the mining segment and poor show by the manufacturing sector

Higher IIP numbers signal good news for the economy but inflation battle isn't over yet

Maybe the oil economics which becomes clearer next month will give final direction for the rupee as well as future inflation.

Narendra Modi does well to stand by industrialists; nation leapfrogs in ease of doing business but Make in India still a pipe dream

The manufacturing rut can be gotten out of only through Make in India which sadly is eluding us.

Retail inflation inches up to 4.87% in May on costlier food; industrial output grows 4.9% in April

Retail inflation inched up to 4.87% in May on increase in prices of certain items in the food basket; IIP expanded by 4.9% in April, spurred by higher growth in manufacturing and mining sectors

IIP growth slows to five-month low of 4.4% in March, pulled down by falling capital goods output

Industrial growth measured by the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) in 2017-18 decelerated to 4.3 percent from 4.6 percent in the previous fiscal

Economy beginning to look good with IIP at 7%, CPI inflation at 5-month low, but not time to lower guard yet

Several indicators for the economy appear to be showing signs of improvement which gives reason to be sanguine about next year.

Icra sees July-Sep GDP growth inching up to 6.3%, says Q2 period of adjustment after GST rollout

Headline GVA growth, however, is likely to trail the 6.8 percent recorded in the second quarter of FY17.