A weaker rupee could aid corporate earnings through its positive impact on export intensive sectors such as information technology services, pharmaceuticals and commodity producers such as metal and mining, and oil and gas companies.
Thousands of retail investors are reaping the benefits of the disruption that the latest technologies have brought to the equity market. Brokerage firms are aggressively investing in technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data and analytics, social media, chatbots, virtual assistants and so on.
The restraint on part of investors was chiefly because of RBI's minutes of its December policy meeting, which showed that some members were concerned about rising oil prices, its inflationary impact and possibility of fiscal slippage.
Mudar Patherya lists companies whose shares can bring on Xmas cheer for investors.
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
Signs of financial stress were visible when the airline reported a loss of Rs 10.40 billion.
The expansion into smaller towns is coming at a time when the online retail space has not only seen consolidation but is actually looking to collaborate with physical stores. Abhineet Kumar reports.
Automobile companies are worried about challenges from electric mobility, automation and connected vehicles.
Hyundai, has a share of about 16% and grew sales by less than 4% in April- May 2017-18
From acquiring creative agencies, to setting up onsite innovation centres and turning around BFSI with entirely new digital offerings, 2018 had seen the IT industry going from initial lows to new highs.
The rush for prohibition and the Supreme Court's decision to ban liquor sales within 500 metres from highways have hurt companies.
The reward could vary between 1% and 5% of the total tax paid.
In its investor presentation, IHH said it wanted to develop Fortis into a market leader.
Investors may increase exposure to mid and small-cap stocks as their risk-reward profile is more attractive currently, suggest Nitin Singh and Vinay Joseph.
'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.'
Accenture -- considered as one of the top-most employers in India among the global technology services companies -- is believed to have over 150,000 workers in India, next to IBM.
Since most Indian firms have kept their forex exposure unhedged, credit profile of companies in the highly sensitive sectors such as oil & gas, metal & mining, airlines could weaken substantially, says Anup Roy.
SoftBank-backed OYO now 100,000 rooms brand, eyes another 100,000 by Mar 1
I-T officials say many lawyers, CAs, consultants, designers have not filed their TDS
The company plans to overhaul business and rationalise costs in a bid to reach parent Unilever's new profit targets, reports Viveat Susan Pinto.
Current account deficit is expected to narrow to 1 per cent.
Like their international peers, Indian CEOs too have a significant portion of their incomes coming from stock options and performance-linked bonuses
'The markets could shrug off demonetisation as a one-off extraordinary period.'
M&M's profit before tax from the farm equipment segment rose 31% last year to Rs 2,562 cr
Ride-hailing firms claim penetration is still low and there is a huge upside to grow the market and make owning a car pass.
These have been selected based on the earnings growth prospects and favourable (buy) ratings by brokerages
A normal monsoon, softer interest rates and inflation, pent-up demand, along with mild budgetary support may help growth pick up in coming quarters.
The edge that Maruti Suzuki enjoys over Hyundai and other rivals stem primarily from its gigantic scale, reports Ajay Modi.
According to analysts, IT firms like Infosys, TCS and HCL Technologies are likely to benefit the most on account of larger US exposures and dollar billing.
It expects the Indian market to grow to 10 million units annually by 2030 and it intends to control half the market then, like it does now.
The chief statistician feels there should be a rebound after companies integrate and adopt the GST system
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.
Corporate clients form more than half of the business for most branded hotels, especially in cities.
Despite adding no new aircraft, Jet Airways saw more departures during the year, it flew more people, and achieved a higher load
These are companies with a strong track record and good prospects on earnings.
Facing capacity constraint, firm is yet to take a call on setting up a new manufacturing unit in India.
Stockmarket Gurus Raamdeo Agrawal, Manish Gunwani, S Naren and Nilesh Shah discuss their favourite themes for the New Year.
Five companies get more volumes from scooters than motorcycles.
More than 40% of the companies surveyed showed job contraction in FY18, says a report by CARE Ratings
Senior policymakers say it is a tough task and the finance ministry may resort to the time-tested method of carrying forward part of the subsidy payment burden to the next fiscal year.
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