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The Indian markets opened weak, on the back of negative US and Asian cues. There were feeble attempts at a comeback, with the markets crossing over into the green in the first hour of trade and again around noon, only to retrace immediately thereafter. The afternoon session was volatile, albeit in the red, as the indices unsuccessfully attempted to claw back above the dotted line.
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India unlikely to achieve $200 bn export target: Scindia

India is unlikely to achieve the $200 billion export target this fiscal due to the continuing global financial crisis, the Rajya Sabha was informed today. - Exports were in line with FTP targets, except for FY09 - India likely to post 8% growth in FY 10: Kamath - Duty-free inputs can be used only for exports - Govt to return to FRBM target at the earliest: MoS finance - Moody"s may downgrade India on worsening govt debt position - IDBI expects interest rates to go up in Q3 "On account of continuing global financial crisis and economic slowdown of developed economies, the target of $200 billion is unlikely to be achieved," Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jyotiraditya Scindia said in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha. The government had fixed the target of $200 billion of exports for the current fiscal while announcing the interim trade policy in February. He said the government and the Reserve Bank are monitoring both the domestic and international economic developments. India"s exports has been on a downslide since October 2008 due to the demand recession in its key markets of the US and Europe. The US and Europe accounts for the bulk of India"s merchandise exports. After growing at 31.3 per cent in the first half of 2008-09, exports plunged by 22.3 per cent in the remaining six months. For the fiscal exports were $168.7 billion, a flat growth of 3.5 per cent. The government has announced several sops like interest subsidy to promote exports.


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