Dhaval Kapadia, Director, Portfolio Specialist, Morningstar Investment Adviser (India) answers queries
Over the three-month period, Airtel's stock price has rallied from Rs 432 to Rs 540, while Vodafone Idea has risen from Rs 9.2 to Rs 11.8 per share.
The real benefits can be seen when prices stabilise, preferably at levels acceptable to both consumers and producers.
Tata Steel delivered one of its best financial performances ever in the third quarter of the current financial year, and surpassed its deleveraging target of $1 billion. In an interview, Koushik Chatterjee, executive director and chief financial officer, Tata Steel, tells Ishita Ayan Dutt that the company will continue to focus on deleveraging but profitable and value-added growth will be equally important.
Market participants are hoping for a few tweaks on the taxation front which will encourage consumers and businesses to spend.
In another round of economic booster, Sitharaman announced steps to help homebuyers and push exports.
Tata Steel, India's largest steelmaker, has consolidated all its overseas assets including Corus under a new holding company, Tata Steel Global, to raise funds for its overseas expansion including future acquisitions.
The central bank is the money manager of the government, and not a guarantor of any debt.
Bharti was talking to Standard Chartered Bank and Citibank, among others, to manage the issue.
To beat BJP, you either deny them a critical mass of Hindu vote or build a regional leader and party strong enough to protect their turf, observes Shekhar Gupta.
In its investor presentation, IHH said it wanted to develop Fortis into a market leader.
Jio's disruptive strategy, including free voice services and data at throwaway rates, apart from offering all services free for six months, triggered a consolidation in the telecom sector.
The uncertainty created by the jump in COVID-19 infections and localised lockdowns prompted RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das and other members of the rating setting panel MPC to unanimously vote for status quo in interest rates and an accommodative policy stance to support growth, as per minutes of the meeting released on Thursday. "The need of the hour is to effectively secure the economic recovery underway so that it becomes broad-based and durable," the Governor said during the three-day meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) which ended on April 7. The renewed jump in COVID-19 infections in several parts of the country and the associated localised and regional lockdowns add uncertainty to the growth outlook, he observed, as per the minutes of the meeting released by the central bank.
In-car connectivity demands and technology for interaction open various possibilities.
Companies in China, South Korea and Indonesia pay 25 per cent tax, while those in Malaysia pay 24 per cent. Only Japan has a higher tax than India at 30.6 per cent. Hong Kong has the lowest corporate tax rate of 16.5 per cent while Singapore has 17 per cent rate and Thailand and Vietnam levy 20 per cent tax on companies.
Tamal Bandyopadhyay offers some unsolicited advice for a government wh,ich came to power, with brute majority and the nation's pragmatic chief money man.
Assessing the shape of the Indian economy just a couple of days ahead of the Union Budget for 2016-17, Saugata Bhatacharya, senior vice president and chief economist, Axis Bank, speaks about his budget wishlist and suggests measures that can help finance minister Arun Jaitley achieve the targeted fiscal deficit of 3.5 per cent of India's gross domestic product.
Moody's said the government will face challenges in achieving its deficit target for the fiscal year ending March 2021, amid persistent structural and cyclical headwinds to growth.
'At this moment, the Trinamool has an edge.'
Maintaining a bullish stance despite the meltdown in the stock market, renowned fund manager Madhusudan Kela on Wednesday said the current fall gives great opportunity to buy good stocks. He said Market will be in consolidation mode for the next 4-6 months. Investors should start buying into high conviction ideas. On the sectoral front, for the next 2-3 months bank stocks may not see any great news and the amount of derivative losses is yet to be measured.
Afghanistan will remain a frontline state for Washington for a foreseeable future in terms of the potential threats to US national security from terrorist groups, asserts Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar, who played a stellar role in beginning India's dealings in Afghanistan in 1994.
Moody's said it reflects India's weaker performance on fiscal.
India should not miss the opportunity to develop high-speed railway.
'Rather than cutting and pasting from advanced economies, we should use basic economic principles to think about what is right for India at the stage of development at which we are,' says Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy Subramanian.
'We need to put aside our anxieties about the Budget for now and possibly for long, and carry on as best as we can,' advises Shreekant Sambrani.
Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan said Flipkart and Snapdeal have made a mark in the start-up world.
India's economy grew at 7.6 per cent in 2015-16.
The Reserve Bank of India, in its Second Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Statement for 2014-15, kept the key interest rate unchanged at 8 per cent.
The rupee fell to an all-time low of 61.21 per dollar, forcing the Reserve Bank of India to intervene to stabilise the currency.
Among the Sensex constituents, ICICI Bank was the biggest gainer with 11 per cent jump, followed by State Bank of India, which rose 8.04 per cent.
'Long-term retail investors should not worry about these sharp dips and jumps if they have chosen their stocks wisely.' 'Short-term volatility is a given and a rise and fall of two-three per cent should not worry them.'
The fiscal deficit for 2015-16 may eventually come down to the targeted level of 3.9 per cent of GDP.
If indeed the gate opens for big industrial houses, the RBI needs to be smarter than them and demonstrate it through action, not reaction, observes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Overall, cumulative direct investment from China stood at just $2.05 billion till June 2018, according to consolidated DIPP figures
Nicholas Piramal India has acquired UK-based Avecia Pharmaceuticals for £9.5 million.
Banks feel happy shifting their toxic assets from loan books to investment books while the ARCs enjoy the management fees with a smile, observes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
The tax computation compares the original cost, along with the stock value on January 31, and grants benefit of the higher of the two.
RBI awaits fiscal stance, inflation to cool off to decide on rates.
FinCom prescribes scrapping of effective revenue deficit.
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