These firms reported a combined operating profit of Rs 26,077 crore (Rs 260.77 billion).
More than half the Sensex companies have declared their results for the third quarter and there are more positive surprises than disappointments.
This analysis is based on the quarterly earnings for 724 companies.
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
Rising oil prices and diminishing cash pile to limit capacity in 2018-19
In five years, per-employee revenue for IT companies grew at 9 per cent each year.
There, however, has been an improvement in operating margins.
The gap between Nifty's price-earnings multiple and economic growth is at a 12-year high
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.
Through the past 12 months, the Bank Nifty has risen 55%
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said Sebi would develop new products in the commodity derivatives space apart from taking steps to deepen the corporate bond market.
According to estimates, if the companies are not allowed to raise petrol rates at least Rs 5 a litre by the first fortnight of September, they might begin to suffer underrecoveries on this decontrolled auto fuel, too -- for the first time this financial year.
Corporate indebtedness is now twice what it was before the global financial crisis; banks' bad loans ratio is 3.5 times higher.
Crisis of growth is worsened by the challenging global environment and policy missteps. Returning to 9 per cent growth trajectory will be a tall order.
67 companies with total debt of Rs 5.65 lakh cr were either loss-making or didn't generate enough profit to cover interest cost in FY15
With mutual funds, promoters turning net-buyers, foreign investors may have to bid up prices to raise holdings.
Earnings spread for foreign investors down to 10-year low of 1.1 per cent, from 2 per cent at the beginning of the year and record high of nearly 5 per cent in 2013
Mid- and small-cap companies seem to have done better than top-tier companies
The growth premium India enjoyed has largely been lost.
If financials and oil sectors were removed, India Inc has done quite well.
The road ahead for the markets in the short term will depend on external factors rather than domestic developments.
With cash -- the primary medium of exchange -- all but disappearing, it is now unlikely that the expected fillip to demand on account of a good monsoon and proceeds from the Seventh Pay Commission payout will materialise.
The markets gained nearly 7 per cent in the 4 trading sessions of March.
Nifty 50 firms' net profit estimated to grow by a modest 3.1% in Q2, reports Krishna Kant.
With commodity markets remaining soft and uncertain, it is likely the money will flow into equity markets with strong upsides, such as India.
'The government is encouraging consumption through fiscal spending in a bid to push up economic growth in the face of a slowdown in corporate investment and exports.'
In the domestic market, the Tata Group has lost ground in the passenger car business.
Slowdown and liquidity squeeze by RBI have put India's top 10 indebted firms in a tight spot. But they have a few options.
That resulted in a 50-basis point improvement in operating profit margins on a sequential basis.
Wiping off nearly Rs 4 lakh crore of investors' wealth during the day, benchmark Sensex crashed on Friday.
FIIs have offloaded stocks worth Rs 13,110 crore
This weakness is likely to continue in the near-term.
Many analysts find market expensive, even at current levels.
For equity investors, the risk-to-reward ratio is worsening.
NTPC to be the worst hit, stock slides to five-year low on announcement.
Sales expansion also down 4.4%
In India, bond yields have fallen nearly 70 basis points in the last one year.
Fresh investments by corporates up just 5.8% in FY17, lowest since 1992
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