07.03.2016 - India: Agri commodities get a mixed deal in budget
Despite the considerable focus on the rural and agricultural sectors in the Budget, commodity market participants have been disappointed on a few fronts. One major expectation was the removal of commodity transaction tax (CTT) which was introduced in July 2013, which hasn’t come about. Trading volumes on the bourses have dropped sharply in the last three years with the declines attributed to CTT, global commodity price declines and the NSEL crisis. Trading volume at the MCX has shrunk by a third in 2014-15 from its peak of ?1.5 lakh crore in 2011-12. At the NCDEX, trading turnover has almost halved to ?10 lakh crore in this period. One also hoped that the Finance Minister would finally let financial institutions, including asset management companies, participate in commodity futures...............................................Full Article: Source
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