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- Issue 1311 November 2026This week
The war premium came out of the barrel, and took the whole argument with it
Week of 2 – 11 November 2026
- The return for audit cases is due on the 21st, and 234A is already running
- Still no notification — and one reading now puts the reforms at April 2027
- The 28 basis points we led on three weeks ago have gone back where they came from
- Tomorrow's inflation print was measured at $113. It is already wrong
- The US Treasury has sanctioned Indian firms over vessel certifications
- The window we reported as closed was extended. It shuts on 20 November
- Ten days to the return, nineteen to the month that decides the interest
- Issue 121 November 2026
₹2.31 lakh crore, and the import half grew three times faster
Week of 26 October – 1 November 2026
- If you missed Saturday, the meter started on Sunday. Pay before the 30th
- The record collection is being read as proof the reforms worked. None are in force
- The RBI is lending overnight and selling bonds. Both are the same policy
- Core output at a 30-month high, and fertiliser down 11.7%
- The hold-up finally has a name, and it is maize, almonds and soybean oil
- Two more windows opened and shut in October. Both lasted under three weeks
- November loses a week to Diwali and still carries six dates
- Issue 1125 October 2026
The RBI raised 25 points. The bond market has added 28 more
Week of 19–25 October 2026
- The audit date held. Now three separate things land on Saturday
- The Council has met, the FAQs are out, and not one rule has changed
- On 22 October the banking system had ₹541 crore spare. That is nothing
- Brent is at $116. The cost figures you are quoting were taken at $102
- A fifth tariff number appeared this week. The rupee went the wrong way too
- 449 applications for 240 plots. Those are the best odds RIICO offers
- Saturday carries three. Then November arrives with a Sunday that trades
- Issue 1020 October 2026
The audit report is due tomorrow. There is no third date
Week of 5 – 20 October 2026
- The filing date moved. Whether the paying date moved is still unsaid
- The Council gave with one hand and deferred with the other
- The rate cycle turned. Your EMI has not noticed yet
- Wholesale 11.39%, retail 5.54%. Someone is eating 5.85 points
- Exports up 23%, and we still will not print a tariff rate
- The RIICO windows have shut. Sitapura is the one still open
- Four dates left in October, and one in November that is not a deadline
- Issue 094 October 2026
The extension came the next day. We said it would not
Week of 28 September – 4 October 2026
- Thirty-one more days to file is not thirty-one more days to pay
- The Council meets Wednesday on the credit you are not allowed to keep
- The rate cycle may turn on Wednesday, for the first time since 2023
- Eight weeks down, and this time the domestic money did not cover it
- Not imminent, says the US trade chief. Short strokes, he says too
- RIICO opens another 500 plots, and the deposit windows close first
- One Wednesday carries three decisions, and October carries five deadlines
- Issue 0827 September 2026
The extension did not come. The audit report is due Wednesday
Week of 21–27 September 2026
- What a late audit report actually costs, and the one thing that reduces it
- Two proposals on 7 October would change what credit you may keep and what you may claim
- The RBI has answered the question behind every tightened credit line this year
- The exchange itself went public, and the flat debut says more than the subscription did
- “Done and dusted” is not signed, and the gap between them is where your pricing sits
- RIICO's bidding opens on Monday, and the deposit window has already closed
- One deadline, one auction and one data release before the month turns
- Issue 0720 September 2026
Your costs rose 9.92% this year. Your prices rose 4.82%. That gap is your margin
Week of 14–20 September 2026
- The audit report is due on 30 September, and the extension everyone is waiting for has not come
- The Council on 7 October is now a plumbing meeting — which is better news than a rate meeting
- If your working capital comes from an NBFC on a revolving limit, read the draft that would end it
- Your unpaid invoice can now be discounted with a government guarantee behind it
- A 100% tariff power now exists on paper. It has not been used — and that is the part to plan around
- RIICO takes plots to auction at nine locations. The money has to be in by Friday
- Four filings, one auction and one data release — the fortnight in the order it arrives
- Issue 0613 September 2026
We printed the date. The Council moved it — 12 September is now 7 October
Week of 7–13 September 2026
- Tuesday is the 45% date — and there is a 36% floor nobody tells you about
- Six weeks on, Ship-to GSTIN is still 'until further notice'. Do not unbuild it
- The loan-pricing window closed on Friday. What you do now is read your own sanction letter
- 30 September and 31 October are one job, not two — and the report has to be signed first
- Brent went past $109 and settled at $104.61 — the clause we asked you to write in is earning its keep
- Sitapura gets a bourse: 44,000 sq m at reserve rate, ground before Diwali, keys from 2028
- Five dates to October — then one Wednesday carrying both the tax news and the rate news
- Issue 056 September 2026
GDP grew 7.8% — and almost every forecaster, this paper included, had it wrong
Week of 31 August – 6 September 2026
- The 31 August date passed and no extension came. If you missed it, here is the price list
- The 57th Council now has a date: Saturday 12 September, New Delhi
- Five days left to comment on the rulebook that will govern your loan's resets
- A strong quarter has a bill attached: 45% of the year's tax, due 15 September
- We said the $94 panic was over. It was not — Brent topped $97 as the strikes resumed
- Jaipur's exporters now carry two costs at once: a 16% wall and a $96 barrel
- Six dates between here and October, and two of them are this coming week
- Issue 0430 August 2026
One day left: ITR-3/4 is due tomorrow — and no extension is coming to save you
Week of 24–30 August 2026
- Filing on the last day: the order of operations that saves you money
- The 57th Council's real agenda: less about rates, more about your disputes
- RBI drafts one rulebook for every loan's interest rate — comments close 11 September
- ₹95.4 to the dollar: your import bill has already repriced — has your price list?
- The $94 panic lasted one week — Brent gave back 5%. Keep the surcharge clause anyway
- A 16% wall in Jaipur's biggest market — and the 2.5-point edge hiding behind it
- September's diary, filled in: five dates between you and October
- Issue 0323 August 2026
The RBI's own minutes see 5.9% inflation by winter — stop waiting for a rate cut
Week of 17–23 August 2026
- Eight days to 31 August — and no, an extension has not been announced
- Correction: the Ship-to GSTIN mandate is on hold — GSTN pulled it before 1 August
- RBI finalises new deposit-rate rules: bulk deposits get pricing freedom from 1 October
- Parliament rewrites the MSME Act: PSU invoices must route through TReDS
- Brent at $94 rewrites your freight math — a 7% jump in one week
- Rajasthan's new industrial policy names Jaipur's own trades as focus sectors
- The six weeks that decide your FY27 penalties, in one look
- Issue 0216 August 2026
Inflation at a 19-month high — and your October rate cut just got harder
Week of 10–16 August 2026
- ITR-3 and ITR-4 due 31 August — 15 days left, and the portal knows it
- Your 20 August GSTR-3B is already written — the portal locked it before you opened it
- RBI's new draft: loan pricing gets standardised — spreads frozen for three years
- MSME floating loans to be repo-linked: cuts reach you faster — hikes too
- The 18% tariff has a new tail: +10% on more than half of India's US-bound lines
- Rajasthan's Industrial Park Policy 2026: private parks, public concessions
- GST 2.0's first festive season approaches — and July set a collection record
- Issue 019 August 2026
RBI holds repo rate at 5.25%, raises its growth forecast
Week of 3 – 9 August 2026
- ITR-3 and ITR-4 due 31 August — 22 days left for business owners and professionals
- Ship-to GSTIN mandatory in e-Way Bill and e-Invoice from 1 August
- RBI draft: NBFCs to offer term loans only, revolving credit to end
- Banks cannot demand collateral on MSE loans up to ₹20 lakh
- US tariff settles at 18% — an opening for textile and handicraft exporters
- Rajasthan is now India's fourth-largest MSME state — over 33 lakh units
- GST 2.0 — four slabs only: 0%, 5%, 18% and 40%
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