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....low of Foreign Capital <br>News and Press Release<br>Dated:- 13-12-2013<br><BR>The US Fed Indications in late May 2013 about the possible tapering of the quantitative easing programme led to substantial outflow of FIIs from Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) including India. Further, EMEs currencies, particularly those with high CAD, also witnessed sharp exchange rate depreciation. Recognizing the ....
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....risks to capital flows emanating from global financial conditions, Government in consultation with RBI and SEBI undertook various measures to facilitate capital inflows and stabilize foreign exchange market. In order to augment capital inflows, various measures have been taken in the recent period, including (i) liberalized FDI norms through review of limits and (or) routes for select sectors viz....
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....., telecom, asset reconstruction companies, credit information companies, petroleum and natural gas, courier services, commodity exchanges, infrastructure companies in the securities market and power exchanges, (ii) offering a window for the banks to swap the fresh FCNR(B) dollar funds with the Reserve Bank (iii) increase in the overseas borrowing limit from 50 to 100 per cent of the unimpaired Ti....
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....er I capital of banks (with the option of swap with the Reserve Bank), and (iv) permission to avail of ECB under the approval route from their foreign equity holder company for general corporate purposes. The recent steps have had distinct positive impact and favourable sentiment is on rise. Rupee has seen a steady recovery and shown an appreciation of 8.8 per cent as on December 9, 2013 over end....
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....-August 2013. India's foreign exchange reserves which had fallen to USD 275.5 billion at end-August 2013 have started re-building and increased to USD 295.7 billion as on December 6, 2013. Going forward, since India's Current Account Deficit (CAD) is projected to be around USD 56 bn in the current fiscal year which will be lower by almost USD 32 billion in comparison with the last year, the impact....
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.... of actual tapering is expected to be much lower than that occurred during post-May 2013 period. This was stated by Minister of State for Finance, Shri Namo Narain Meena, in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.<BR> News - Press release - PIB....