Manish Chokhani, Director at Enam Securities fears that India has been one of the big beneficiaries of West\'s easy money, which makes it susceptible to becoming a bubble.

The error in stating the first quarter GDP numbers has raised a number of questions on the quality of Indian statistics. In an interview with CNBCTV18’s Latha Venkatesh, the Director General of the Central Statistical Organisation, SK Das spoke about how the error in using the deflator to calculate GDP at market price occurred.

A slew of initial public offering (IPO) from the healthcare stable may be in the offing. Private equity players are seeking to exit from a number of private healthcare and pharma companies, reports CNBCTV18’s Kritika Saxena.

After nearly 25 years of association, is Kotak Mahindra Bank looking to leave out the Mahindra tag behind? And are the Mahindras too planning a slow exit. CNBCTV18’s Gopika Gopakumar pieces together some recent developments for this report.

Thanks to buzzing deal street and capital markets, the investment banking industry is seeing a huge churn among top investment bankers, report CNBCTV18’s Tanvi Shukla and Avni Raja.

The taxman has contacted the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), raising queries on certain international credit card payments of former Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modi reports CNBCTV18’s Ashwin Mohan quoting sources.

Having younger people take more responsibility for the destiny of the company is the way forward, according to Infosys Chairman NR Narayana Murthy. In an interview with CNBC TV18\'s Sunanda Jayaseelan, he spoke about how Infosys\' shareholders and investors would react to the possibility of a foreigner as his successor.

The benchmark Nifty closed rangebound session on a flat note on Friday. It was a quiet session for the markets and the Nifty remained in a narrow range of 5,4755,500.

Deven Choksey, MD, KR Choksey advices one can buy Reliance Industries at Rs 900 and book profits around Rs 1050.

EIH Associated Hotels gained 9.98% or Rs 20.95 to close at Rs 230.85. It touched a 52week high of Rs 230.85. There were pending buy orders of 43,187 shares, with no sellers available.

There is no reason to get apprehensive about the future just yet, believes Anand Tandon, director (equities) at Brics Securities. Talking to CNBCTV18, he said the markets will not correct to the extent of 2008 levels. In fact, markets should move up a little if global cues exhibit stability.

Jim O\'Neill of Goldman Sachs believes that the US is facing some challenges and that it faces a 25% chance of a recession next year.

Telecom equipment manufacturer ITI expected to get fresh orders from BSNL said its chairman and managing director KL Dhingra. “We expect a threeyear extension from MNTL and BSNL,” he added.

Markets are in no mood to change its current position, believes Rajan Malik of Anand Rathi Financial Services. Nifty will continue to face tough resistance at 55505600 and can go down to 5,3505,400 on the downside and 5,5505,600 on the upside. He says there is no evidence of any marketmoving trigger in the periphery.

According to Udayan Mukherjee, Managing Editor of CNBCTV18 the sugar sector has bottomed out.

Technical analyst Ashwani Gujral is bullish on Godrej Properties, Texmaco, Exide Industries, SKS Micro and Dhampur Sugar. He advises traders to buy into these stocks.

The Centre has decided to restructure the public distribution system (PDS) to include more families into the below poverty line (BPL) bracket, reports CNBCTV18.

The day was a rangebound one, nothing wrong with that. We have had a terrific pullback from 5350. So today the market spent time consolidating and digesting those gains.

The implementation of the Direc Tax Code may have an impact on Indian IT companies. Analysts say IT firms with maximum special economic zone (SEZ) exposure will see the largest impact, reports CNBCTV18’s Kritika Saxena.

New claims for US unemployment benefits fell last week, but were still too high to signal a change in fortune for the troubled labour market.