{"id":216296,"date":"2026-03-30T18:51:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=216296"},"modified":"2026-03-30T18:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:51:27","slug":"the-union-budget-disappoints-with-surprise-tax-hike-investors-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=216296","title":{"rendered":"The Union Budget disappoints with surprise tax hike, investors say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s standing among the world\u2019s worst performing stock markets this year fuelled expectations of steps to revive earnings and lure back global funds<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-02-02\/india-s-budget-disappoints-with-surprise-tax-hike-investors-say\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s standing among the world\u2019s worst performing stock markets this year fuelled expectations of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216296-the-union-budget-disappoints-with-surprise-tax-hike-investors-say.jpg",1200,675,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216296-the-union-budget-disappoints-with-surprise-tax-hike-investors-say-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216296-the-union-budget-disappoints-with-surprise-tax-hike-investors-say-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216296-the-union-budget-disappoints-with-surprise-tax-hike-investors-say-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216296-the-union-budget-disappoints-with-surprise-tax-hike-investors-say-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216296-the-union-budget-disappoints-with-surprise-tax-hike-investors-say.jpg",1200,675,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216296-the-union-budget-disappoints-with-surprise-tax-hike-investors-say.jpg",1200,675,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216296-the-union-budget-disappoints-with-surprise-tax-hike-investors-say-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216296-the-union-budget-disappoints-with-surprise-tax-hike-investors-say-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216296-the-union-budget-disappoints-with-surprise-tax-hike-investors-say-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=26\" rel=\"category\">London Market<\/a>","tag_info":"London Market","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/216297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}