Analysts cautious on outlook, expect earnings to remain under pressure over medium term.
...followed by financial services, IT, and sales and marketing.
Foreign money has been pouring into India's fast-growing e-commerce sector, with investors ranging from Japan's Softbank Corp to Singapore's Temasek Holdings.
The central bank has ordered lenders to clean up balance sheets by March 2017
SBI said it provided credit to Orbital ATK Inc as part of a syndicated deal with other banks.
The failure of SVB was due to idiosyncratic reasons, but shows how higher rates can expose fault lines in unforeseen places, observes Neelkanth Mishra.
Gender diversity at the top can improve financial returns.
The financial services sector, including NBFCs and housing finance companies (HFCs), have historically been the largest borrowers from MFs.
Though most analysts expect the global central banks to keep the liquidity tap open, valuations of Indian markets, they say, are beginning to look stretched. Against this backdrop, they remain cautious, with some even expecting a minor correction from here on.
Experts believe the market will fall between 1 and 3%.
Budget 2015 has blessed the banking sector.
Though Google's investment is minuscule and will not move the needle, it will attract other investors to the company and be a morale booster. Pursuing Vodafone Idea would potentially pit Google against Facebook and an increasingly dominant Jio.
Eight investment banks including HSBC and India's ICICI Securities and SBI Capital have submitted bids to manage a 10-per cent stake divestment in state-owned Coal India.
Data processing compliance is the main reason behind the delay. The government, on several occasions, has made it clear that Indian financial data needs to be stored exclusively onshore and if it is processed outside, it needs to be brought back in 24 hours.
Overseas funds have been spooked by several policy measures taken by the government in the past few years
Infosys has been struggling to revive high growth for two years.
Maruti Suzuki India is facing stiff resistance from private sector mutual funds and insurance companies, which own almost 7 per cent of the company, for its decision to allow Suzuki to make cars for the Indian car-maker at a proposed plant in Gujarat instead of manufacturing vehicles itself.
Indian equities are no longer cheap vis-a-vis global markets, and only a short distance away from being the most expensive they have ever been.
The maximum number of banks are from the US (74), followed by China (29) and South Korea (26).
Nearly three-fourths of the debt money, as of April 30, 2019, was invested in securities with duration of less than three years.
Even though stocks may remain volatile in the run-up to the polls, as political parties stitch up alliances, the long-term trajectory for the markets remains bullish.
With a middle class still so small and no apparent leaps in productivity on the farm or in manufacturing on the horizon, India faces its own age of diminished expectations.
'People always short-change the resilience of the economy.'
Experts said if the slowdown, and subsequent weakness in GST mobilisation, continued, it would curtail the Centre's resources to a considerable extent in the current financial year.
Reliance Industries Ltd's focus on the next hypergrowth opportunities in clean tech and its path to decarbonisation has the potential to spur re-rating, raises clarity on investment cycles and reduces investor worry, brokerages said. RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani at the company's 'Green AGM' on Thursday committed Rs 75,000 crore over the next three years to set up an integrated Green Energy Giga Complex across 5,000 acres in Jamnagar, Gujarat which will contain four giga factories. The complex, which would be one of the world's largest renewable manufacturing facilities, would have an integrated solar photovoltaic module factory, an energy storage battery factory, electrolyser manufacturing for hydrogen production, and manufacturing of fuel cells so that hydrogen can be used in transportation.
PSU divestment, LIC IPO, fiscal deficit: Budget 2021 marks a clear change in the Modi government's stance from fiscal conservatism to growth orientation.
Broader market underperformed the headline indices with BSE Midcap and BSE Smallcap finishing in red
The NYSE accounts for more than 60 percent of S&P 500 volume at the close of the market
Market participants are hoping for a few tweaks on the taxation front which will encourage consumers and businesses to spend.
There is polarisation among sectors with IT and healthcare receiving the lion's share of FPI money in the past two quarters.
Listening -- really listening -- to advisers in the government and outside would help. India has plenty of wise economists who have worked within the bureaucracy during previous crises, points out Rahul Jacob.
GST rate cut for real-estate, income transfer scheme, farm loan waivers execution and recapitalisation of PSU banks have the potential to boost India's growth in a few months, says Neelkanth Mishra.
10 stocks which are most popular with brokerages right now and are expected to deliver maximum upside over the next 12 months.
Share rises further to 73 per cent from 66 per cent last year; Some overseas i-banks seen scaling down operations
The top losers from the Sensex pack are ONGC, Coal India, Vedanta, Reliance Inds and L&T.
Investment in market leaders with a safety-first approach could yield reasonable returns across sectors.
Bringing in the untapped informal sector into the formal one will benefit business.
So, what does 2016 have in store for the Indian markets? Will they be able to take a giant leap forward in the leap year, and what are the key risks?
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