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age 2 Telecom spectrum auction unlikely this year: Top RBI asks banks to make extra provisioning on Top Jindal Steel and Power wins at APTEL
346 infra projects show cost overruns of INR 4.46tn DOT sources 20 biz Godrej Consumer to use AIF route to invest in biz
2.4tn investment Unseasonal rain slows AC sales momentum INTERNATIONAL Page 3 SEBI makes KYC mandatory for eWallets in MF Zydus recalls 55K bottles of generic drug in US
Housing sales likely to rise 14% in January-March Pegatron may open second factory for Apple in CORPORATE Page 5 Titagarh Wagons bullish on demand
next fiscal India RIL’s FMCG push may spur price war
POLITICS & POLICY Page 2 Crompton and Butterfly announce merger
Cabinet to consider price caps on gas India allows exports of 350K tonne broken rice to SBI sells loan of Atibir Industries to CFM ARC Sarovar Hotels to add 50 hotels in five years
Highway infra to match US by 2024: RoadsMin Gambia, Senegal Maruti’s Nexa channel to sell 600K units next year
ECONOMY Page 3 Jio installs 100K towers to roll out 5G
Centre notifies revised MGNREGA wage rates
Page 5 Macro and Market update Adani, Reliance pull out of race to buy SKS Power
27 March 2023
Public sector banks to submit plan to deal with key business risks Market Monitor
State-run banks will within two weeks US and Europe as depositors fret over along with strategies to integrate market Global Indices
submit to the government a detailed banks' health, they said. Public sector data of such securities. This mechanism Va lu e % ch a n g e PE
scenario-mapped plan of various banks (PSB) assured Finance Minister will send out alerts enabling banks to Sensex 57,527 (0.7) 18.8
business risks, people familiar with the Nirmala Sitharaman at a recent review take timely action and steps to manage Nifty 16,945 (0.8) 17.9
development told ET. They will also meeting the Indian banking system overall exposure to a corporate, inclusive S&P 500 3,971 0.6 18.1
outline a communication strategy to deal remains robust and there is no cause for of lending through pledged shares. FTSE 100 7,405 (1.3) 10.1
HangSeng 19,544 (1.9) 9.4
with any exigency, they said. This is part worry. PSBs will also share information
Nikkei 225 27,471 0.3 16.5
of increased vigilance amid turmoil in the on provisioning made for pledged shares
27 March 2023 8:20 AM
SECTOR
Source: Bloomberg
INTERNATIONAL
Pegatron may open second factory for unit is being explored to meet Apple’s plans to build a consideration as shipments of this variety were banned on
resilient supply chain ecosystem outside of China. But no September 8, 2022, as per Business Line. According to a
Apple in India final decision has been taken yet,” said a source close to the communication sent by the Finance Ministry to Chief
As iPhone maker Apple looks to increase the production of development. While businessline could not ascertain the Commissioners of Customs in Ahmedabad, Chennai, Vizag,
its smartphones in India, one of its contract manufacturer, location of the second plant, Reuters said the second unit Nagpur, and Mumbai, the Commerce Ministry has allowed
Pegatron, may open a second factory in the country, as per could also be set up near Chennai. export of 100,000 tonne of broken rice to Gambia and
Business Line. The Taiwan-based manufacturer of phones 250,000 tonne to Senegal.
has already started production from a unit near Chennai India allows exports of 350K tonne
with an investment of INR 11bn. The company had signed a broken rice to Gambia, Senegal
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Tamil Nadu
The Government has approved the export of 350,000 tonne
government in February 2021 in this regard. “The second
(lt) of broken rice to Gambia and Senegal as a special
ECONOMY
Macro and Market update Fed says rising interest cost cut payments to US Treasury Fed's policy rate will need to rise as bank stress eases,
in 2022 Bullard says
Foreign exchange reserves record highest weekly rise
since Nov 2022 Rising interest cost cut into the amount of money the Federal The Federal Reserve will likely need to raise interest rates
Reserve handed back to the US Treasury last year compared higher than expected as US regulators' "swift" response eases
The Reserve Bank of India’s foreign exchange reserves
to 2021, the US Central Bank said in an audited financial stress in the banking sector while the economy and inflation
jumped USD 12.8bn to USD 572.80bn in the week ended
statement released. The central bank said it earned USD remain stronger than expected, St Louis Fed President James
March 17, registering the highest rise since the week ended
58.8bn last year vs USD 107.9bn in 2021. Higher cost related Bullard said. He said the collapse earlier this month of Silicon
November 11, 2022. Gold reserves jumped by USD 2.187bn
to interest rate into the bottom line and left the Fed at the Valley Bank was "quirky," a result of "unusual" conditions at a
to USD 44.109bn while special drawing rights (SDR) were up
end of 2022 with what it calls a USD 16.6bn deferred asset. lender focused on the tech community that are not apparent
by USD 98mn to USD 18.219bn.
in other banks.
ECONOMY
US PMI increases in March 2023 Bank of England's Mann content to slow tightening as China's CATL to start mass output of M3P batteries this
inflation expectations ease year
The S&P Global US Manufacturing PMI increased to 49.1 in
March of 2023 from 47.3 in February, beating forecasts of Bank of England policymaker Catherine Mann said that she Chinese battery giant CATL plans to start this year the mass
47, preliminary estimates showed while Services PMI rose to voted for a quarter-percentage-point interest rate rise this production and delivery of batteries based on a new
53.8 in March 2023 from 50.6 in January, easily beating week rather than a bigger increase because she saw signs materials technology, M3P, which will perform better and
market expectations of 50.5. that inflation expectations were now falling. Mann said the cost less than nickel and cobalt-based ones, its chairman said.
BoE had raised interest rates more slowly than she would CATL disclosed in August last year that it was working on
ECB rates must rise; bank share volatility unsurprising,
have liked in 2022, but there are now signs businesses and M3P technology, which can enable an electric vehicle to run
ECB's Nagel says
households expected inflation to fall, reducing the urgency 700km (430 miles) per charge when combined with CATL's
The European Central Bank must continue to raise interest for big interest rate rises. next generation of battery-pack technology.
rates to fight inflation, Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel
Germany manufacturing PMI falls; services PMI increases Asian markets
said, playing down another sell-off in bank shares as a
in March
natural extension of the recent market volatility. Nagel made Asian markets opened on a mixed note on 27 March as
clear that a pause is not in order as inflation, seen averaging The S&P Global Manufacturing for Germany unexpectedly investors continue to worry about banking system turmoil.
around 6% in Germany, the Eurozone's biggest economy, fell to 44.4 in March of 2023 from 46.3 in February and well Brent is at USD 74.72/bbl, DXY at 102.748, US10y at 3.372%,
will take too long to come back to the ECB's 2% target. below forecast of 47, preliminary estimates showed while and SGX Nifty at 0.69%
Services PMI rose to 53.9 in March of 2023 from 50.9 in the
Source: Garima Kapoor, Economist, Elara Securities
previous month, ahead of expectations of 51 to mark the
Research
third consecutive expansion and the fastest since May 2022.
RBI asks banks to make extra than before. Therefore, the regulator felt it would be good per LiveMint. “It should be ensured that all e-wallets are fully
for the system if banks start taking prudential provisioning compliant with KYC norms as prescribed by Reserve Bank of
provisioning on Top 20 biz on business groups now,” said senior banker aware of the India," SEBI said in a circular. In 2017, SEBI authorized fund
To ready up for any contingency, the Reserve Bank of India matter. houses to receive up to INR 50,000 per fund house every
has advised banks to set aside specific provisioning towards fiscal year using e-wallet. After making KYC mandatory for
their exposure to top 20 conglomerates of India, as per SEBI makes KYC mandatory for maintaining e-wallets in mutual funds from 1st of May 2023,
Business Line. Highly placed sources say that the move is eWallets in MF industry experts are believing that this step taken by the
more to lean on the side of caution and should not be capital markets regulator will boost security and decrease the
SEBI has urged fund companies to make sure that investors
construed as any ‘warning signal’ from the regulator. “PSU risk of fraud in mutual fund transactions.
should complete mutual fund transactions using KYC-
banks and private banks are in a much better shape now
compliant e-wallets. This will take effect on May 1, 2023, as
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India CPI for Mar (6.44% YoY) India Imports for Mar (-8.2%)
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