The Reserve Bank is likely to cut the repo rate by 25 basis points (bps) after the Budget.
India's telecom sector has been through dizzying peaks, troughs, policy U-turns, court battles, brutal competition, and daily controversies. India could go back to a private sector duopoly with just Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel surviving the mayhem. The third player, Vodafone Idea, could be history.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the inflation index would determine the nominal growth figure, and it is better to set modest targets and outperform them.
The move comes after Neeraj Kanwar's reappointment as managing director was rejected by minority shareholders owing to his salary, which increased in spite of a fall in the company's profitability.
Analysts expect banks with a strong deposit franchise to benefit from SBI's rate cut as they too are likely to follow the leader.
The layoffs have been done in businesses which are moving slowly due to various reasons including delayed execution
The industry was expecting to sell 3 million passenger vehicles for the first time in 2016-17, but now it seems a moot possibility.
Thanks to the recapitalisation by the government and measures taken by the central bank, collapse of any large housing finance company won't pose as big a risk as it had six months ago.
'Young people are digital natives.' 'Hence, their ability to learn coding and to become a full stack engineer is far more.' 'The demand for such people is more as we feel that if we hire people from campuses, we can train them to become what we want.'
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?
The Sensex ended in red on domestic concerns.
The long-term growth perspective or potential for India is one of the highest in the Asia Pacific region.
UTI's legacy and brand recognition, together with a robust distribution network and access to public sector money, could work in its favour, and help it command a premium
While the positive surprise has been the high growth in agriculture, the negative surprise is in the trade, transport, hotels segment where growth came lower than expected, says Madan Sabnavis.
Dairies cut milk procurement price by 11% in 2 months on bumper supply, but they are in no mood to pass on this price benefit to the consumers
Sanand produced only 515 Nanos in January, and sold even less, just around 391 units.
India's cash-rich promoters are not the same as the wealthiest. For example, Mukesh Ambani is the richest Indian based on his stake in Reliance Industries, followed by Premji, the Adani family of the Adani group, and Radhakishan Damani of Avenue Supermarts.
Mudar Patherya lists companies whose shares can bring on Xmas cheer for investors.
Most brokerages have maintained their Sensex and Nifty targets as they believe there is little room for further re-rating in the backdrop of weak earnings.
Current account deficit is expected to narrow to 1 per cent.
The country's biggest carmaker is now more valuable than the combined market cap of the three leading automobile companies in the country: Tata Motors (Rs 1,18,684 crore), M&M (Rs 86,336 crore) and Ashok Leyland (Rs 34,700 crore).
Patanjali's packet milk to be lower than competitor brands by Rs 2 a litre
A decline in the real estate sector, rising debt and the company's alleged involvement in 2G scam caused damage to the business and its image.
Global markets could correct 5-10 per cent. If that happens, Indian markets will correct about 10 per cent
Existing bank deposits will continue with past rates until renewed on maturity.
Despite Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis' ambitious plan, 40 per cent of the state is reeling from drought and its water tanker economy is booming. As of February 2019, the state government declared drought in 151 of the 358 talukas.
According to JP Morgan, it seems that Jio is willing to go for the jugular in chasing market share if this hurts some of its standing rivals like Vodafone and Idea to a point from where they find it difficult to fight back.
If the industrial sector expanded, growth rate is likely to rise in the remaining quarters to reach 7.6-7.8 per cent for 2017-18.
Analysts cautious on outlook, expect earnings to remain under pressure over medium term.
'One of the biggest issues the Indian economy faces right now is of job creation...' 'The nexus between growth and employment has to be closed...' 'In the absence of a manufacturing expansion, the alternative is to have the service sector as the driver of both GDP as well as employment growth.'
In the UK, he will attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
'It is a worrying trend as we are not seeing too much fresh capital being raised for new projects, plants, expansion or diversification. It's just private equity or venture capital or promoters cashing out.'
I-T officials say many lawyers, CAs, consultants, designers have not filed their TDS
'While collections under the Income Disclosure Scheme explain it partly, indirect tax numbers not showing any effect of the withdrawal of high denomination currency notes was puzzling.'
Shares of Motilal Oswal Financial Services, Edelweiss Financial Services and IIFL Holdings have all doubled in the past one year against the Sensex's 23 per cent gain.
We take a look at India's major imports and exports with Japan in recent years.
WPI inflation fell to a 5-year low of 3.74 per cent while the retail inflation was at 7.8 per cent in August.
SoftBank-backed OYO now 100,000 rooms brand, eyes another 100,000 by Mar 1
Apart from around 40 Japanese companies and five global vendors of MG Motor India, many other biggies are eyeing Gujarat for either greenfield opportunities or brownfield expansion.
Ride-hailing firms claim penetration is still low and there is a huge upside to grow the market and make owning a car pass.
