Analysts worry about possible loan waiver.
HUL, ITC, Nestle, Colgate, Dabur, Britannia, Asian Paints, P&G are trading at nearly 48 times. The previous record high was 53 times at the end of March 1994.
Crude oil prices have more than doubled, pushing up India's import bill and raising fears of a higher current account and fiscal deficit. This will impact corporate earnings.
So far, India has attracted over $20 billion in the debt segment, thanks to the rate differential.
Most NBFCs will have to slow down their loan growth. Some of the most leveraged will have to sell a part of their assets (or loan book) to banks to raise incremental capital. Others may have to knock on the door of their deep-pocketed parents.
Asset quality stress has ballooned recently, as growth slowed and interest rates continued to rise.
New series points to a sharp recovery since FY14.
The decline is attributed to lower salary growth and a rise in households' financial liabilities.
As inflation rate is near the upper limit of the comfort zone, experts rule out rate cuts anytime soon
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.
While gold returned 12 per cent annual gain in 10 years, Nifty didn't exceed 9 per cent.
Oil and gas sectot may not put up good numbers in Q4.
In the past three years, personal loans have grown at twice the rate of growth in personal disposable income, leading to a steady rise in household indebtedness. At the end of March this year, Indians owed Rs 25.2 lakh crore to banks and listed non-banking finance companies (NBFCs), up 65 per cent in the past three years.
Softening rural consumption and the likelihood of weak corporate earnings in the March quarter saw investors dump stocks.
FIIs accumulated India's top-listed companies at an average valuation of around 16 times.
Experts say it will now be tough for the Modi government to catch up with the UPA's economic record owing to the shock induced by the currency demonetisation.
Market hopes govt will hike capital expenditure.
The fallen bellwether of the technology sector has a strategy to reclaim its lost position.
Indian Hotels, Tata Steel, Tata Teleservices, Tata Motors, Tata Power need some immediate attention of the Tata Group chairman
Its rich valuation with a PE of 62 times raises downside risk for investors
Total net debt-equity ratio improves for third consecutive year, while investment in new projects hits a 10-year low, says Krishna Kant.
The combined share of customs and excise duties, service tax, and value-added tax in India's gross domestic product reached an all-time high of 10.5%.
The benchmark Sensex companies' underlying earnings per share are down 3 per cent (on a cumulative basis) since January 2015, against 25 per cent rise in the index value during the period
For top IT services firms, revenue growth in FY15 was the slowest since the Lehman crisis
Government-owned companies are more generous in rewarding their shareholders with dividends.
Combined debt-equity ratio of top companies declines but interest expenses outgrow profits.
Brokerages expect revenue growth at a 7-quarter high but profitability may disappoint.
During the dot-com bubble, it had touched a high of 1.9.
12 out of 21 public sector banks reported declines in their loan books in the last financial year against seven such banks in 2015-16 and none in 2013-14.
An action on the rate front is unlikely to figure in Rajan's plan for the moment.
Analysts refuse to read too much into the early birds numbers.
Rising oil prices and diminishing cash pile to limit capacity in 2018-19
Combined net profit estimated to grow 14.6% year-on-year, against a 5.7% decline in the Dec 2015 quarter
Indian market has been plagued by negative sentiment and triggers
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.
Experts expect the trend to continue in the near term.
The number of infrastructure projects cleared by a monitoring group set up in the Cabinet Secretariat had increased consistently in the past year.
The gap between Nifty's price-earnings multiple and economic growth is at a 12-year high
The Sensex and the Nifty witnessed biggest one day loss in percentage terms since June 24
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