Experts expect the trend to continue in the near term.
Previous peak in 2010 crossed in first five-and-a-half months this year.
With India's imports exceeding exports, weak rupee does more harm than good. Analysts, however, say that rupee depriciation is positive for export-oriented sectors such as IT services, pharmaceuticals, textiles and automobiles
Analysts say strengthening bank's capital will boost earnings, bank needs chief with long stint to run show
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.
With a loan book of $268 billion, India's retail banking is now ahead of Russia, Malaysia and Mexico but behind China, Brazil and Thailand
Government-owned companies are more generous in rewarding their shareholders with dividends.
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
With mutual funds, promoters turning net-buyers, foreign investors may have to bid up prices to raise holdings.
More than half the Sensex companies have declared their results for the third quarter and there are more positive surprises than disappointments.
Promoters' holding in private sector BSE 500 companies declined to 43.4% in Sept
The index is more expensive than it was at 2014-end or when it hit a life-time high in January.
The Sensex and the Nifty witnessed biggest one day loss in percentage terms since June 24
While gold returned 12 per cent annual gain in 10 years, Nifty didn't exceed 9 per cent.
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
There, however, has been an improvement in operating margins.
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.
Its rich valuation with a PE of 62 times raises downside risk for investors
Brokerages expect revenue growth at a 7-quarter high but profitability may disappoint.
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.
Lower IT exports will raise India's dependence on capital flows to fund imports.
A financial turnaround in Tata Steel and Tata Motors has come as a shot in the arm for Chandra.
Analysts refuse to read too much into the early birds numbers.
Many giving double-digit returns, with India up less than one per cent; even so, it has done much better than other emerging markets.
The markets gained nearly 7 per cent in the 4 trading sessions of March.
Analysts say there is still no visibility of earnings improvement.
Technically, the Indian economy is on road to recovery.
The road ahead for the markets in the short term will depend on external factors rather than domestic developments.
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.
Through the past 12 months, the Bank Nifty has risen 55%
In five years, per-employee revenue for IT companies grew at 9 per cent each year.
The Hinduja Group, Mukesh Ambani, Murugappa, and the Adani groups were the other gainers in the Modi regime, while Naveen Jindal and Sun Pharma groups saw the most erosion in their m-cap in the last five years, reports Krishna Kant.
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.
Corporate indebtedness is now twice what it was before the global financial crisis; banks' bad loans ratio is 3.5 times higher.
Higher crude oil prices also translate into better corporate earnings for India's top companies
If financials and oil sectors were removed, India Inc has done quite well.
The growth premium India enjoyed has largely been lost.
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%.
Sensex rose 5.8% this year, against a 3.2% rise in Nifty; Axis Bank inclusion may blunt Sensex edge
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