67 companies with total debt of Rs 5.65 lakh cr were either loss-making or didn't generate enough profit to cover interest cost in FY15
Indian CEOs might like to make some serious course correction.
Premium valuations era started in 2006 and went hand in hand with decline in the US interest rates
Promoters' holding in private sector BSE 500 companies declined to 43.4% in Sept
In the past 12 months, such earnings have grown in double digits in Europe, the US, Japan and South Korea.
VCs have been especially bullish about India.
The index is more expensive than it was at 2014-end or when it hit a life-time high in January.
Lower IT exports will raise India's dependence on capital flows to fund imports.
For top IT services firms, revenue growth in FY15 was the slowest since the Lehman crisis
India-located funds have already raised $3.9 billion so far this year.
State Bank of India partnered GE Capital in 1998 for its credit card business.
The rise in India Inc's market value was led by asset-light firms.
The calculation excludes cross-holding of listed group cos in each other.
Tata Motors, Titan Company & Tata Steel come in at second, third & fourth slots.
Tata Sons has moved the Supreme Court against an estimated Rs 300-crore (Rs 3-billion) sales tax demand from the Maharashtra state government.
The growth premium India enjoyed has largely been lost.
The BSE Realty Index is on a downhill journey.
More than 10% (40 of 498 companies) have lost at least half their market value.
During the dot-com bubble, it had touched a high of 1.9.
The turmoil on the Street and a continued fall of the rupee may affect growth stocks, pushing equity investors back to the relative safety of defensive counters, or forcing them to flee markets, or both.
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