After the latest spike in crude oil prices, petrol prices could potentially go up to around Rs 90 a litre making a dent in the consumer's wallet. This, the analysts fear, will push the cost of vehicle ownership in the country, further reducing the demand potential for the industry.
In Friday's market rally post the corporate tax cut, the country's top business promoters recouped more than two-thirds of the losses that they suffered in the post-Budget sell-off in equity markets.
The group firms reported combined losses of Rs 6,134 crore in FY19 against a net profit of Rs 5,414 crore a year ago. Excluding Vodafone Idea, the group reported a net profit of Rs 8,470 crore, down from a profit of Rs 9,582 crore a year ago.
These firms owe Rs 13 trillion to lenders and account for 55% of all non-financial corporate debt.
The companies' combined net profit declined by 10.1 per cent y-o-y during June '19 quarter against 26.2 per cent y-o-y growth a year ago.
Combined net profit of BSE500 companies at $ 63 bn is 2.3% of GDP; global average is 5%.
Titan accounted for 59.6 per cent of his disclosed portfolio at Rs 8,355 crore. This is more than 10 times the next biggest holding, Federal Bank, at Rs 619 crore.
This amount does not include losses suffered indirectly through investment in mutual funds (MFs) and insurance companies.
The financials of six privately held companies associated with Siddhartha show an increase in debt and falling ability to meet short-term obligations.
High regulatory expectations and advent of discount broking have made old-style brokerage businesses unviable.
The list of companies skipping dividends in FY19 includes some of the country's largest firms and industry leaders such Tata Motors, Avenue Supermart, Future Retail and Vodafone Idea, among others.
'The people let off by the NBFCs have little bargaining power and willingly settle for a 20% to 25% cut in their existing salaries when hunting for new jobs.'
Historically, there has been no correlation between growth in bank credit to industry and lower benchmark interest rate
'Unknown' location advertisement spends were nearly 74% higher than the next biggest spender, Uttar Pradesh.
The combined interest payment for India's top listed companies, excluding financial and oil and gas firms, was up 15.2 per cent year-on-year during the six months ended March 2019, outpacing the change in net sales and operating profit.
The average assets of an MP are now 345.8 times that of an annual income of a tax-filing individual, reports Sachin P Mampatta.
The cumulative spends on Google are in excess of Rs 27.4 crore. There have been 14,837 advertisements on Google platforms.
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala sounded another note of caution on the nature of the latest bull run.
More asset sales may be only way out, though most of the group companies' ratings have been downgraded and their combined market value is now a fraction of their combined debt.
The Congress topped the list of pages with the highest spends for the week ended April 6.
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