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2019-20 and its subsequent impact on the fiscal deficit target.According to a post-Budget analysis report by HDFC Securities, foreign
investors might not react negatively to the fact that government has missed its fiscal deficit target of 3.3 per cent for FY19 by 0.1 per
finance minister has kept the deficit at 3.4 per cent for FY20 instead of even trying to reduce it."The report cautioned against the trend
trend might lead to an outflow from the debt market segment."The international rating agencies are also unlikely to be happy with this
development," the report said.On its part, the government plans to fund its fiscal deficit (and repayments of past borrowings) for FY20 by
However, we feel that this Budget may not cause any heartburn or major disappointment," the report said."The markets will, over the next few
days, take their own trajectory (based on other triggers - local and foreign) after this small time window of anticipation of and reaction
to the Budget."On Friday, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said the government will miss the fiscal deficit target for the current and coming
financial years but will maintain the glide-path and achieve 3 per cent fiscal deficit target by 2020-21.Mr Goyal said the slippage in
deficit targets for 2018-19 and 2019-20 by 10 and 30 basis points respectively to 3.4 per cent of the GDP is due to the new income support
of Rs 6,000 a year for small and marginal farmers announced by him in the Interim Budget.Find LIVE Budget 2019, updates, latest news,
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