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Weak Monsoon Forecast Adds to India’s Inflation, Growth Worries

1 June 2026 at 02:35
The biggest risk is to rural consumption, a key driver of economic growth.

Residents wait in line to fill pots from a water truck in Chennai, India, on Thursday, July 4, 2019. Failed rains last year and delays in this year’s annual monsoon have left nearly half of India facing drought-like conditions, according to the South Asia Drought Monitor. Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg

Indian IT Stocks Slump as AI Jitters Resurface

Investors remain far from convinced that the sector has found a bottom.

Electronic integrated circuit (EIC) and photonic integrated circuit (PIC) semiconductor chips displayed at the MediaTek Inc. booth at the Computex 2026 expo in Taipei, Taiwan, on Wednesday, June 3, 2026. Computex is Asia's biggest electronics show, one that's transformed in recent years from a PC exhibition into an all-AI affair. Photographer: Lam Yik Fei/Bloomberg
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