2014 Forecast

India jumped 14 places to the 63rd position on the World Bank's ease of doing business ranking released on Thursday, riding high on the government's flagship ''Make in India'' scheme and other reforms attracting foreign investment.

In a year the rest of India witnessed "above-normal monsoon", Delhi recorded 38 per cent rainfall deficiency, the lowest rainfall in the city since 2014, according to the India Meteorological Department.

Thais filled schoolyards, temples and government offices to vote Sunday in the first election since a 2014 coup, with high turnout forecast from a public who received a cryptic last-minute warning from the king to support "good" leaders to prevent "chaos".

HDFC Bank Ltd., which had the most accurate estimates in Bloomberg's quarterly rankings, sees U.S. Federal Reserve policy tightening driving a 2.6 percent decline in the rupee.

Freudenberg in India recorded sales of Rs. 1,497 crore in 2014 and the coming years, with the industry expanding, there isn't a shadow of doubt that the company will keep on this growth path. We got a chance to talk to Viju Parameshwar, President of Kluber Lubrications, to tell us more about the strategy the company will employ in India.

The latest growth is bigger than a revised 0.3 percent expansion in the final quarter of 2014 and beat the market median forecast of a 0.4 percent on-quarter increase.

With higher political certainty improved business confidence, reduced external vulnerabilities and lower commodity prices, real GDP is forecast to rise to 7.2 per cent in FY 2014/15, accelerating to 7.5 per cent in 2015/16.

By 2018, the country will have "as many as 55 crore internet users, of which 28 crore would be from smaller towns and cities, expanding at close to 40 per cent a year from six crore in 2014," forecasts a report on digital consumption by Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

Trade grew by 2.8 percent in 2014, far less than an original forecast of 4.7 percent and also below the revised forecast of 3.1 percent that the WTO predicted last September.

The company reported on Monday its 2014 net profit fell 28 per cent to 450.7 million euros ($489.8 million), slightly below forecasts, as overall annual sales dropped 1 percent.

The company also forecast full-year 2015 revenue growth of at least 19 per cent, higher than the 16.1 per cent achieved in 2014, which was the weakest in the company's 20-year history.

The figures were reported in Cisco's Visual Networking Index (VNI) global mobile data traffic forecast for 2014 to 2019.

The fourth quarter of 2014 reversed Amazon's earning pattern. Profits were much better than forecast, while revenue was slightly weaker.

Nokia's chief executive Rajeev Suri said "While 2014 was a year of reinvention, we see 2015 as a year of execution."

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) slightly trimmed its growth forecast for developing Asia for this year and next, but said sliding prices for oil should help economies in the region push through with growth reforms.

India jumped 14 places to the 63rd position on the World Bank's ease of doing business ranking released on Thursday, riding high on the government's flagship ''Make in India'' scheme and other reforms attracting foreign investment.

In a year the rest of India witnessed "above-normal monsoon", Delhi recorded 38 per cent rainfall deficiency, the lowest rainfall in the city since 2014, according to the India Meteorological Department.

Thais filled schoolyards, temples and government offices to vote Sunday in the first election since a 2014 coup, with high turnout forecast from a public who received a cryptic last-minute warning from the king to support "good" leaders to prevent "chaos".

HDFC Bank Ltd., which had the most accurate estimates in Bloomberg's quarterly rankings, sees U.S. Federal Reserve policy tightening driving a 2.6 percent decline in the rupee.

Freudenberg in India recorded sales of Rs. 1,497 crore in 2014 and the coming years, with the industry expanding, there isn't a shadow of doubt that the company will keep on this growth path. We got a chance to talk to Viju Parameshwar, President of Kluber Lubrications, to tell us more about the strategy the company will employ in India.

The latest growth is bigger than a revised 0.3 percent expansion in the final quarter of 2014 and beat the market median forecast of a 0.4 percent on-quarter increase.

With higher political certainty improved business confidence, reduced external vulnerabilities and lower commodity prices, real GDP is forecast to rise to 7.2 per cent in FY 2014/15, accelerating to 7.5 per cent in 2015/16.

By 2018, the country will have "as many as 55 crore internet users, of which 28 crore would be from smaller towns and cities, expanding at close to 40 per cent a year from six crore in 2014," forecasts a report on digital consumption by Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

Trade grew by 2.8 percent in 2014, far less than an original forecast of 4.7 percent and also below the revised forecast of 3.1 percent that the WTO predicted last September.

The company reported on Monday its 2014 net profit fell 28 per cent to 450.7 million euros ($489.8 million), slightly below forecasts, as overall annual sales dropped 1 percent.

The company also forecast full-year 2015 revenue growth of at least 19 per cent, higher than the 16.1 per cent achieved in 2014, which was the weakest in the company's 20-year history.

The figures were reported in Cisco's Visual Networking Index (VNI) global mobile data traffic forecast for 2014 to 2019.

The fourth quarter of 2014 reversed Amazon's earning pattern. Profits were much better than forecast, while revenue was slightly weaker.

Nokia's chief executive Rajeev Suri said "While 2014 was a year of reinvention, we see 2015 as a year of execution."

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) slightly trimmed its growth forecast for developing Asia for this year and next, but said sliding prices for oil should help economies in the region push through with growth reforms.