The Brief: Debt Trap Awaits The Young
With youngsters latching on to the consumption bandwagon, their finances are increasingly under pressure.
With youngsters latching on to the consumption bandwagon, their finances are increasingly under pressure.
Aided by strong demand recovery, credit ratio rebounds to 1.33 in H2FY21, from 0.54 in H1FY21. GDP could grow at 11% in FY22, but the resurgence in Covid-19 cases is a key downside risk, says CRISIL.
Lucknow Municipal Corporation’s ₹200 crore bond, listed on BSE, has seen an oversubscription of 4.5 times and joins 8 Indian cities, together raising an aggregate of ₹3,690 crore.
With Lakshmi Vilas Bank in its fold, the foreign bank’s branch count jumps over 18 times. But the merger could also open up a potential Pandora's box.
The credit rating agency points out that the pandemic will continue to be a spoilsport for the NBFCs it reviewed as funding remains a challenge in the current market.
Facebook’s $5.7-billion investment in RIL’s subsidiary will help both companies monetise their digital platforms; it will also aid in deleveraging RIL’s balance sheet, says Fitch Ratings.
Ratings agency CRISIL pegs India’s GDP growth at 3.5% for FY21; says the number of downgrades will outnumber upgrades, as companies suffer from lack of revenues.
The government’s partial credit guarantee on asset purchases does not address investors’ long-term concerns about the sector’s exposure to stressed real estate: Fitch Ratings.
BSE Sensex slips over 450 points on lack of consumption push.