Consumer businesses come to the rescue of large conglomerates in the midst of a meltdown in commodities.
Combined net profit estimated to grow 14.6% year-on-year, against a 5.7% decline in the Dec 2015 quarter
FIIs accumulated India's top-listed companies at an average valuation of around 16 times.
Bankers gave money to Mallya's airline though it was not enough to even service existing debt?
The markets gained nearly 7 per cent in the 4 trading sessions of March.
Additional levy to eat into Rs 6,000-crore income of top promoters
Experts expect the trend to continue in the near term.
Combined net profit up 7.4% over a year ago, versus 11.2% in Q2.
For the first time in a decade, the BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices outperformed the benchmark index for a consecutive year
Longest period of price-earnings expansion in the index since 1996
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.
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
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.
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