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.
The scrip was the worst hit among the front-line companies on both the indices during the day.
India Inc did not perform well during December quarter.
If purists are surprised as to why and how people are not demanding prohibition or not talking about past promises, both in the election manifestos five years back and even those made to the courts, the answer lies in how the state has been evolving and changing these past few years, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
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.
There are few strategies to invest safely in a volatile market.
About 55 per cent of the public offers that hit the market since 2008 are still trading below their issue price.
Buying stocks during bad times can lead to good returns.
iD Fresh Foods, India's largest ready-to-cook food manufacturer, is looking to create a Rs 1,000-crore business in the next five years.
Mods let Lenovo fight the features battle with premium players like Apple and Samsung and keep the price of the phone low, thereby drawing in aspirational customers who can't afford high-priced feature-rich handsets.
Stocks such as ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda and HDFC Bank are among the top banking picks of analysts for 2017. A decline in cost of funds and treasury gains are expected to help stabilise their net interest margins
As inflation rate is near the upper limit of the comfort zone, experts rule out rate cuts anytime soon
According to official figures, retail inflation in June touched its lowest mark at 7.31 per cent since January 2012.
Strong MF investments, stemming of FII outflows and positive earnings in Q3 have helped market, say analysts.
S&P BSE Midcap index and S&P BSE Smallcap were down 2% and 1.3% respectively
Being one of the early commentators to flag economic slowdown and caution investors on corporate earnings, Gautam Chhaochharia, head of India research, UBS Securities, in an interview with Hamsini Karthik says the markets remain in an expensive zone despite the recent correction.
India's working population relies heavily on cash deposits and a second home to generate post -retirement income, according to an HSBC report.
Investment bankers said retail investors were pulling back, while institutions were being pickier
The broader NSE Nifty index too finished lower by 4.80 points, or 0.05 per cent, at 10,632.20.
If you are not happy with the price offered at buybacks, you could be in for a long haul.
ONGC is raising debt for a spate of acquisitions over the past year
Blind spots of the company were two-fold - managing cash flow and investments to upgrade technology and continue research and development.
Analysts expect the indices to dip further if the global macros do not stabilise
Raghavendra Kamath reports on what ails India's real estate sector.
While stocks are at cheap valuations, the volatility can be unnerving.
Invest 5 to 10 per cent in a banking sector fund. Ensure that mutual fund's portfolio includes all three players -- private sector banks, public sector banks and NBFCs.
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
The BSE benchmark Sensex surged about 241 points to end at 35,165.48 and the NSE Nifty gained 84 points to close at 10,688.65.
Amid subdued demand for traditional information technology (IT) services offerings, Indian IT services players are betting on big data, as this is high on clients' agenda.
Many see Nirma's Lafarge deal as some kind of second coming for the Patels.
Contrarian stocks can help investors generate much higher returns than buying shares of companies that have shown consistent high growth for years.
The NPPA letter was issued to GSK on Wednesday.
Internet, tech, infra, realty in India might gain
Indian benchmark indices may witness bouts of volatility this week as traders roll over positions in the derivative segment on expiry of near-month contracts, say experts.
Broader markets underperformed indices with BSE Midcap down 0.43% while the Smallcap index fell 0.07%.
The headline HSBC India Purchasing Managers' Index -- a composite gauge designed to give a single-figure snapshot of manufacturing business conditions -- stood at 53.3 in November significantly higher from 51.6 in October.
Sentiment was largely positive after April IIP grew at 4.9 per cent, spurred by higher growth in manufacturing and mining sectors.
'If the mandis were not working in Delhi, or the onion market in Nashik got affected, or there were disruptions because of unloading or loading in any sector in south India, we intervened.'
After 11 years at the helm of Jubilant, Ajay Kaul, the 'nuts and bolts' executive, called it a day amid speculation that his expansionist strategy was not clicking, says Viveat Susan Pinto.
This comes in the wake of allegations of financial irregularities by the erstwhile management led by Harish Moolchandani.
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