Experts expect the trend to continue in the near term.
Rising oil prices and diminishing cash pile to limit capacity in 2018-19
Though Indian banks don't have large exposure to subprime mortgages, analysts are worried at the rise in their restructured loan portfolios and deterioration in credit quality.
An analysis of year-wise movements of average global crude oil prices versus India's GDP reveals no inverse correlation, contrary to wide belief.
The Sensex and the Nifty witnessed biggest one day loss in percentage terms since June 24
A financial turnaround in Tata Steel and Tata Motors has come as a shot in the arm for Chandra.
After years of losing money on two of the group's biggest bets - global steel business and domestic passenger cars - there are strong signs of a revival in both businesses.
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.
The gap between Nifty's price-earnings multiple and economic growth is at a 12-year high
These firms reported a combined operating profit of Rs 26,077 crore (Rs 260.77 billion).
The BSE Realty Index is on a downhill journey.
This analysis is based on the quarterly earnings for 724 companies.
While Raghuram Rajan has said in the past that other factors, including domestic fundamentals, outweigh the US Fed policy meet, this time it would be different
Many giving double-digit returns, with India up less than one per cent; even so, it has done much better than other emerging markets.
Analysts say there is still no visibility of earnings improvement.
Earnings spread for foreign investors down to 10-year low of 1.1 per cent, from 2 per cent at the beginning of the year and record high of nearly 5 per cent in 2013
In five years, per-employee revenue for IT companies grew at 9 per cent each year.
Previous peak in 2010 crossed in first five-and-a-half months this year.
Corporate indebtedness is now twice what it was before the global financial crisis; banks' bad loans ratio is 3.5 times higher.
Mid- and small-cap companies seem to have done better than top-tier companies
There, however, has been an improvement in operating margins.
Through the past 12 months, the Bank Nifty has risen 55%
More than half the Sensex companies have declared their results for the third quarter and there are more positive surprises than disappointments.
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
HUL, UltraTech, Asian Paints, L&T, HDFC Bank top global valuation charts
Lower IT exports will raise India's dependence on capital flows to fund imports.
Analysts now expect India Inc to report a decline in both top line and bottom line for the September quarter.
With mutual funds, promoters turning net-buyers, foreign investors may have to bid up prices to raise holdings.
With cash -- the primary medium of exchange -- all but disappearing, it is now unlikely that the expected fillip to demand on account of a good monsoon and proceeds from the Seventh Pay Commission payout will materialise.
If financials and oil sectors were removed, India Inc has done quite well.
The growth premium India enjoyed has largely been lost.
Crisis of growth is worsened by the challenging global environment and policy missteps. Returning to 9 per cent growth trajectory will be a tall order.
'The government is encouraging consumption through fiscal spending in a bid to push up economic growth in the face of a slowdown in corporate investment and exports.'
The road ahead for the markets in the short term will depend on external factors rather than domestic developments.
Nifty 50 firms' net profit estimated to grow by a modest 3.1% in Q2, reports Krishna Kant.
The markets gained nearly 7 per cent in the 4 trading sessions of March.
Wiping off nearly Rs 4 lakh crore of investors' wealth during the day, benchmark Sensex crashed on Friday.
