🚨 Top 6 Takeaways from Budget to boost India's Infra for a Brighter Economic Future. 🧵
1) The government has allocated 10 Lakh Crores as capital outlay for the development of roads, health facilities, education, and other infrastructure initiatives.
2) The Railway has been allocated a capital outlay of 2.40 Lakh Crores.
3) 100 key transport projects, focused on last/first-mile connectivity for ports, coal, steel, fertilizer, and food grain sectors, will receive priority investment of 75,000 crores.
4) 50 additional airports, heliports, water aerodromes, and advanced landing grounds will be revived for improving regional air connectivity.
5) Enhanced focus will be provided for the scientific management of dry and wet waste.
6) Govt has decided to continue the 50-year interest-free loan to state governments for one more year to spur investment in infrastructure and to incentivize them for complementary policy actions, with a significantly enhanced outlay of 1.3 lakh crore.
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2) Within six months of Hindenburg's short and report on Nikola, Nikola's stock plummeted 60-70%. Currently, it is down 90% from its September 2020 levels.
3) Assume Hindenburg exited after a 50% fall in Nikola, they made a 50% profit on their short, and they would earn 5000 Cr.
4) They have also made profits from shorting multiple companies after exposing them even before Nikola.
Additionally, it is important for them to maintain a sufficient buffer in case the short go in the opposite direction.
Calculate tax payable under both pre-budget & post-budget scenarios.
Before Budget, you would have paid 202,500 tax.
After budget announcement, you will pay 150,000 tax.
So net gain of 52,500.
4) The increase of the standard deduction from 50,000 to 52,500 was not explicitly mentioned in the budget speech, but it is being interpreted by many as such.
1) When business owners need money for any reason, they sometimes give some of their company's shares to banks as a guarantee. This is called Pledging.
Adani group has also pledged its stocks for loans.
See below
2) When company's shares go down below a preset value that can cover bank's loan value, the bank will ask for more money or shares as a guarantee that the loan will be paid back. This is called a "margin call".
So, falling Adani stocks can trigger margin call for Adani group.
2) Bajaj Finance made 24% more money from net interest income compared to last year which is a very big positive.
NBFCs make money by charging more interest on loans they give out than the interest they pay to borrow money from other financial institutions or people.
3) Bajaj Finance's NPA ratio stands at 1.14% which is considered very low.
NBFC keep track of the money that people don't pay back by using a number called NPA. A lower NPA number means that the NBFC is able to get most of its money back from the people who borrowed it.