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The retail inflation, which is factored in by the RBI to arrive at its monetary policy, has been on decline since last month. The previous low was 5.54 per cent in November 2019. The government has asked the RBI to restrict the inflation around 4 per cent, with a margin of 2 per cent on the either side.
'It was because of the huge selloff in the Indian equities that the rupee fell so sharply against the dollar on Friday.'
In the past 12 months, such earnings have grown in double digits in Europe, the US, Japan and South Korea.
Crude oil prices have more than doubled, pushing up India's import bill and raising fears of a higher current account and fiscal deficit. This will impact corporate earnings.
Market hopes govt will hike capital expenditure.
However, rural demand continued to remain a concern for FMCG companies during the quarter.
Experts expect the trend to continue in the near term.
Second-tier NBFC stocks are trading at 24.4x their trailing earnings, which is nearly twice their 15-year average of 13.9x
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Oil and gas sectot may not put up good numbers in Q4.
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
Build up inflation rate in the financial year so far was 2 per cent compared to a build up rate of 4.56 per cent in the corresponding period of the previous year. Inflation in food articles as a group rose to 11.08 per cent during the month as against 9.80 per cent in the previous month, mainly driven by exorbitantly high onion prices, the rates of which spiked by over 172 per cent from a year-ago. The annual rate of inflation, based on monthly wholesale price index was at 0.16 per cent in October.
During the month, inflation in vegetables shot up to 35.99 per cent, as against 26.10 per cent in October. Likewise, the prices of cereals and eggs grew at a faster pace of 3.71 per cent.
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
The Union government will gain close to Rs 1.6 lakh crore in additional revenues this fiscal from a record hike in excise duty on petrol and diesel that has pushed the total incidence of taxation on auto fuels to 70 per cent of the price. Late on Tuesday evening, the government hiked excise duty on petrol by Rs 10 per litre and that on diesel by Rs 13 a litre to mop up gains arising from international oil prices falling to a two-decade low.
The fallen bellwether of the technology sector has a strategy to reclaim its lost position.
The management, however, is a bit wary about near-term performance.
Analysts say strengthening bank's capital will boost earnings, bank needs chief with long stint to run show
While most analysts remain positive on TCS and Infosys, they are cautious on Wipro.
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.
This analysis is based on the quarterly earnings for 724 companies.
The Sensex and the Nifty witnessed biggest one day loss in percentage terms since June 24
A financial turnaround in Tata Steel and Tata Motors has come as a shot in the arm for Chandra.
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
The sector is witnessing weak tendering.
The internals of the food inflation are worrying, given a broad-based uptick across categories that tend to be sticky, such as proteins, and a narrower-than-expected reduction in inflation for vegetables.
Softening rural consumption and the likelihood of weak corporate earnings in the March quarter saw investors dump stocks.
The markets gained nearly 7 per cent in the 4 trading sessions of March.
Reports have suggested Rs 400-650 as the possible IPO price
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
Government-owned companies are more generous in rewarding their shareholders with dividends.
Indian Hotels, Tata Steel, Tata Teleservices, Tata Motors, Tata Power need some immediate attention of the Tata Group chairman
Infosys was the top gainer in the Sensex pack, rallying around 7 per cent, followed by TCS, IndusInd Bank, ONGC, HDFC Bank and HCL Tech. On the other hand, ITC, Bajaj Finance, Kotak Bank and Sun Pharma finished in the red.
An action on the rate front is unlikely to figure in Rajan's plan for the moment.
As inflation rate is near the upper limit of the comfort zone, experts rule out rate cuts anytime soon
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.
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.
Wiping off nearly Rs 4 lakh crore of investors' wealth during the day, benchmark Sensex crashed on Friday.
Combined debt-equity ratio of top companies declines but interest expenses outgrow profits.
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