Here are 15 things that would have made 2015 a great year.
Credit card payments to buy fuel at petrol pumps will from October 1 not get a 0.75 per cent discount that State-owned oil companies had introduced more than two-and-a-half years back to promote digital payments.
Going by the experience of the previous years -- when the actual proceeds from stake sale were much lower than the targets -- the government's disinvestment target for 2014-15 appears too ambitious.
Government is expected to rely more on divestment proceeds to keep the fiscal deficit in check
The Sensex ended up 48 points at 28,386 and the Nifty gained 13 points to close at 8,476.
There is a dearth of talent in the Indian banking industry. A testimony to this is the two new CEOs in the private sector -- Sandeep Bakhshi in ICICI Bank Ltd and Amitabh Chaudhry in AXIS Bank Ltd -- have come from the insurance sector, says Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
The earnings are, however, expected to be down around 2 per cent on a sequential basis due to pent-up demand getting exhausted and the adverse impact of rising metals and energy prices on consumer goods and manufacturing companies.
Higher disposable incomes, rural push and infra push to boost auto sector
Market cap of government companies has remained unchanged in the past 8 years.
Gains were led by index heavyweights with Reliance Industries contributing the most.
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Ajit Mishra, vice president, research, Religare Broking, answers your stockmarket queries.
Instead of being carried away by Friday's historic election verdict, savvy investors were seen taking money off the table, after the benchmark Sensex rallied about 1,500 points in intra-day trade.
Gains in financial shares capped further downslide.
The Indian rupee slumped to a record low near 69 to the dollar on Wednesday on growing worries that foreign investors will continue to sell out of a country facing stiff economic challenges and volatile global markets.
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Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
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Founded in 2006, PremjiInvest's assets under management are worth over $2 billion across India
'Clearly, the depositors of cooperative banks need the maximum protection.'
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In the broader markets, the BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices were up 0.5% each
Mannapuram Finance, Mahindra and Bharti Axa are some of the firms known to have bought office spaces worth more than Rs 100 crore
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Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Tamal Bandyopadhyay offers some unsolicited advice for a government wh,ich came to power, with brute majority and the nation's pragmatic chief money man.
Pressure on the government increased with the Reserve Bank of India's surprise move on Thursday to cut interest rates
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Anil Rego, CEO, Right Horizons, answers your personal income tax queries.
Sensex catapults 1,241 points and Nifty vaults 382 points in two sessions in a row.
The lower yield is better for property landlords as it indicates an appreciation in the capital value of the property, says Raghavendra Kamath.
Industry watchers attribute a lot of the current successes of the $6 billion Hero Group to how B M Munjal planned and executed succession in HeroCorp, balancing the interests of other family-owned businesses.
S&P BSE Midcap shed 0.8% while S&P BSE Smallcap tumbled 0.6%
The FM should quietly get the oil companies to offload the shares in the market and pocket the gains
According to Munjal, there is an opportunity for somebody who comes from a not for profit background in health care to do something.
What connects P S Jayakumar of Bank of Baroda, V Vaidyanathan of Capital First Ltd and Chandra Shekhar Ghosh of Bandhan?
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Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your stock market queries.
