Bankers claim they have received good response to the roadshows held abroad for Coal India, IndianOil and PowerGrid.
The indirect tax reform Goods and Services Tax is stuck in the Rajya Sabha.
Today, banks are being asked to discover niche strengths and focus on them
Listed Mumbai developers are battling higher inventory levels.
Asset sales have helped ease investors' worry but debt remains at alarming levels
The negative aspect about the Budget is that the capital expenditure has been marginally cut to achieve the fiscal deficit target assumptions, and the onus of sustaining investment demand till private capex revives continues to vest with the public sector enterprises, notes Jyotivardhan Jaipuria.
India Ic has pulled up its socks to perform even better in FY16.
'If businesses are focused on de-leveraging, they can hardly be investing. This is the price extracted by investment mistakes during UPA rule, and should have been foreseen. 'But Modi-I must share the blame, for muted reform of the financial sector, partisan policy in telecom, the harm done to exports by an over-priced rupee, and so on,' says T N Ninan.
More than 10% (40 of 498 companies) have lost at least half their market value.
The government plans to bring down its stake to 26 per cent in these two banks, which are yet to be identified. This may not come in the way of getting investors for these banks, provided the government is willing to step back rather than run them the way it had been doing for over five decades since these banks were nationalised, points out Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
While Raghuram Rajan's departure under these circumstances is a pity, it would be wrong to conclude that the RBI or the economy cannot do without him.
'India should take up defence manufacturing in a more serious manner and encourage greater private participation.'
As the Modi government enters the fourth year of its tenure, it is looking more confident, shedding its earlier inhibitions about offering sops or new opportunities to big business, says A K Bhattacharya.
'We aren't so unreasonable as to demand that he should have fully reversed Indira Gandhi's worst economic legacy, bank nationalisation.' 'But he could have made a beginning by selling off the two most stressed small public sector banks, and then announced that each year for the next 10, one government bank with the most messed-up balance sheet will be sold.' 'It would have electrified the markets, shocked his other banks into better behaviour, and marked his name among the great reformers,' argues Shekhar Gupta.
Second-tier NBFC stocks are trading at 24.4x their trailing earnings, which is nearly twice their 15-year average of 13.9x
'The government has done extremely well.'
Single window clearances for realty must.
If the economy gains momentum, that is a big positive for markets, given the strong macro of low inflation, falling rates, and a stable rupee, says Akash Prakash.
Under the watchful eyes of five wise men, who know the industry well, banks will not find it easy to hoodwink the system, says Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has noted the contradiction.
NBFCs are mainly dependent on funding their operation from their own cash flows.
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'Brexit might delay the sale process of Tata Steel's UK operations'.
The Big Two telecom companies have accelerated their moves towards this next-gen technology, though they have chosen very different routes to getting there.
Credit profiles have turned healthier from a year ago
India's good fortune, experts in the US feel, is not the result of a fundamentally strong economy, but because it is the best of a bad set of options.
Markets have witnessed a gap down opening mirroring losses in the global equities with US markets taking a hit on worries about the health of Chinese economy.
It's the beginning of a rate reduction cycle
Let all the stakeholders, especially the government, remember that if the Make in India lion needs to roar and rise again, it won't happen unless India Inc rises too, points out Shekaar Subramanian.
The peak GST rate of 28 per cent as also the 5 per cent ad valorem cess will continue
The government's stance in the face of uncertain prospects for the private sector has been that public sector investment will drive the system.
'Hope they don't tinker around with capital gains tax in any way.'
'India is the largest stomping ground in the world for impact investing as we have an extraordinary combination of entrepreneurial drive with huge, absolute demand for all kinds of social services,' IDFC First Bank's chief Rajiv Lall tells Anjuli Bhargava.
Market ended lower for the third straight session led by IT stocks amid downgrade by Citigroup.
The flow of economic news suggests that "good days" are not here as yet.
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Net profit grew 25.4% in Q4 but revenue growth, lower at 8.5%, suggests lack of volume expansion.
Gaurav Mohta, chief marketing officer, Home First Finance Company will answer your home loan queries.
'It may sound like sacrilege, but does it really matter if the global raters downgrade India for fiscal slippage?' asks Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
When buying into a cyclical business, it might make sense to spread investments across several companies.
It has built confidence in the possibility of change; now reality has to catch up with the image and the expectation, says T N Ninan.
