Tuesday, November 5, 2013

India’s banks will struggle for growth as economy slows

............And things do not look like they are going to improve any time soon. With a sluggish economy and persisting policy bottlenecks, the chances of companies taking on more loans to expand business are low. If the RBI is unable to reduce rates for a protracted period, given currency declines and high inflation, Morgan Stanley predicts that bad loans will increase by more than 4 per cent to 5 per cent over the next two years, and several companies might be forced to restructure their loans. State-owned banks are running mostly with stretched balance sheets and net impaired loans at some of these banks are now almost 100 per cent of equity,..............

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