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Banks want govt to focus on public spending over fiscal deficit road map

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Banks and financial institutions pitched for a delay in the fiscal deficit road map and for more focus on greater public spending to ensure economic revival, at a pre-Budget meeting with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday. The institutions also wanted incentives to encourage cashless transactions through debit/credit cards and rationalisation of interest rate of small savings schemes.  Read Articles   Read our full coverage on Union Budget

L&T, SBI, BHEL, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank at 52-week lows: Is there hope in 2016?

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China, crude oil and other global events have been impacting Indian markets since early 2015. Nearly half of the broad based Nifty index stocks are trading at their 52 week lows. Shankar Sharma of First Global in an interview with CNBC TV18 said that the state of global stock markets in January 2016 eerily resembles the one witnessed in January 2008 – when equity markets topped out after a multi-year bull run.  Read Articles