India Business

Forex Reserves Drop $346 Mn with in a week Ending Aug 10

As on Aug 10, 2007, Forex reserves went down USD 346 million to USD 228.996 billion, mainly on the back of declension in foreign currency and assets accumulations on a weekly basis.

According to the RBI’s weekly statistical supplement released on Aug. 17, 2007 the foreign currency and assets decreased USD 221.653 billion.

The gold reserves and the IMF reserve position remained flat at USD 6,887 million and USD 455 million correspondingly during the same period.

Stock Markets Sign Off In Volatile Mood, Metal, IT Linger

BSE SensexIndian stocks turned down for the third day, with the key index witness its

Bank Credit Climb Up 23.4%

The credit paid out by listed commercial banking institutions arose 23.4% (Rs 3,654.48 billion) on a yearly basis on Aug. 3, 2007 that is under the growth of combined bank deposits of 24.3%.

Buy Unitech At Rs 439-460: Manghnani

Anil ManghnaniAnil Manghnani of Modern Shares & Stock Brokers is of the vision that the investors interested in buying Unitech, will buy it between Rs 460 and Rs 439.

Infrastructure Sector Growth Declines To 5.3% In Jun`07

The fall in the crude oil production and retardation in the productivity of other products backed out the development of six key infrastructure businesses to 5.3% in June 2007 as compared to 7.7% a year ago.

In the April-June quarter (2007), the growth of the six infrastructure industries recorded dim growth at 6.9% from 7.4% in the first quarter of 2006-07.

Amongst the six, crude oil fabrication slumped to 2,774,000 tons in June, 1.8% lower than 2,826,000 tons a year ago.

Inflation Rate Down To 4.05%

New Delhi: For the week ended August 4, inflation turned down to 4.05 per cent as against to 4.45 per cent in the last week because of lower prices of poultry chicken, moong, fruits, vegetable and some man-made things.

The wholesale prices-based inflation was 5.08 per cent in the matching week of the last year. During the week, the prices of vegetables, fruits and poultry chicken slumped by five per cent each, whereas those of moong and fish-marine descended by one per cent.

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