Reforms In Retail

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  Japan Crypto Exchanges Pushing For Margin Trading Relaxation For Sector Growth

  Japan’s crypto exchanges are pushing for a relaxation of curbs on margin trading, unbowed by last year’s global digital-asset market crash. Many people in the industry want permitted leverage for retail investors of four to 10 times whereas currently, customers can at most double exposure via borrowing.

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  PM Modi's Win In UP Lifts Rupee To 65 Level Against Dollar

  Analysts now expect PM Modi will be emboldened to embark on more reforms including foreign investment in the retail sector.

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  Single-Brand Retailers Want More Reform In Labour, Land Policy

  Lauding the government's efforts for improving ease of doing business, leading single brand retailers such as IKEA India and Tommy Hilfiger on Thursday pressed for more reforms in labour and land policies to help operationalise their businesses.

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  Will Keep Inflation In Check, Stay Away From Populism: PM Modi

  Vowing to keep inflation under control, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said he has tried to stay away from populism which the past regimes practised to get recognition while "emptying the exchequer".

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  Government's FDI Reforms To Attract Capital, Create Jobs: India Inc

  The government's move to relax foreign direct investment (FDI) norms in sectors, including civil aviation, single-brand retail, defence and pharma, will help attract big investments and boost job creation, India Inc said on Monday.

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  Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman On FDI Reforms: Highlights

  Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in an interview to NDTV speaks on the recent reforms in Foreign Direct Investment, announced by the Modi government, which includes relaxation in single brand retail paving way from Apple and IKEA stores in the country. Here are the highlights of the interview:

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  FDI Gets Reform Push in 2015; 45% Jump Likely in 2016

  Bullish on a series of reforms unveiled in the year passing-by, the government expects FDI inflows to rise by 40-45 per cent in the New Year while further steps could be on anvil to attract foreign capital.

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  Inflation, Factory Data Bring Cheer Amid Worries Over Stalled Reforms

  Retail inflation in India cooled to a record low in July and annual growth in industrial production hit a four-month high in June, bringing cheer to investors fretting that a gridlock in Parliament is stalling reforms.

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  Diesel Deregulation, Gas Price to Have Positive Impact on Oil Firms: Fitch

  Key oil and gas sector reforms like diesel deregulation and a new gas pricing policy will have a positive impact on companies engaged in fuel retailing and gas production, Fitch Ratings has said in a report by Fitch Ratings.

• Bring More Retail Investors to Market: Finance Minister to Sebi

  Pitching for greater transparency in rule-making and other functions of regulators, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday asked the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to work towards attracting more retail investors to the capital markets.

• Reforms help retail interest in IPOs grow 3-times: Sebi

  The growth in retail participation is even sharper, over 10 times, after removing those IPOs which got either withdrawn or were very large in size, shows an 'impact analysis' of policy measures implemented by Sebi in the primary market segment during 2012-13.

• Cabinet to consider FDI liberalisation next week: trade minister

  Unleashing the second wave of FDI reforms, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh approved relaxing the foreign investment norms in a number of sectors including telecom, insurance and petroleum refining.

• China's GDP growth slows to 7.5%, tests reform push

  Other figures showed industrial output in June rising slightly less than forecast compared with a year earlier, but retail sales increasing more than had been expected.

• PM Manmohan Singh hints at more liberalisation of FDI regime

  Expressing commitment to continue with reforms, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today indicated government will further liberalise Foreign Direct Investment or FDI regime in the coming months and push the land reforms measures.

• FDI in retail was an executive decision, judiciary should respect that: Anand Sharma

  Anand Sharma, Minister of Commerce & Industry, speaks to NDTV's Shweta Rajpal Kohli on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, about reform process giving a positive signal to foreign investors. He also speaks about the Supreme Court's move to question government's FDI in multi-brand retail policy. Here is the edited tra...