The plan was to sell off non-profitable businesses apart from focusing on four verticals: real estate, defence, financial services and retail
Barring oil and gas, all BSE sectoral indices finished in the green.
Happy at the clear mandate given by voters to the BJP-led NDA, India Inc on Friday exuded confidence that Narendra Modi will initiate bold and decisive policy reforms to promote economic growth.
'Vishal Sikka may have realised that he was in no position to deliver on the promise Infosys made to its shareholders.' 'Perhaps he was looking for an escape route and he quit under the cover of "continuous drumbeats of distractions",' says Sudhir Bisht.
The company attributed the cut in guidance to the macroeconomic uncertainties.
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With the lockdown in force, live online teaching has become the order of the day, report Peerzada Abrar and Sai Ishwar.
Students will have more H1Bs to count on after they graduate.
Accenture has its largest employee base in India with close to three lakh people.
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It is not that platforms and products are something that Infosys has not tried earlier.
Of these, three stocks belong to the automobile pack and two are from the pharma.
The fall came on the back of a massive selloff in NBFCs, led by DHFL which skidded over 50 per cent on fears of a liquidity crisis.
As Nasdaq-listed company indicates poor spending in financial services space, Indian firms feel jittery
Progress of monsoon, investment trend by foreign investors and the movement of rupee against the dollar will also influence sentiment
Leveraging next generation technologies like artificial intelligence, software services major Infosys is confident of returning to industry-leading growth and regaining its position as the bellwether of the over $100 billion Indian IT industry.
Mindtree, eclerx and Hexaware are trading at similar valuations to that of the larger peers.
Rebound in IT majors TCS and Infosys in late trades helped markets end higher.
'It is not that the H1B visa employees are coming in to displace jobs.'
Sikka said since more and more of the work is now becoming automated, the Indian IT companies need to focus much more on the innovative areas and on the new areas.
Infosys may have put the visa misuse investigations behind it through a civil settlement with the US authorities, but experts believe that the episode might drag its other peers under the scanner.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has cancelled his visit to WEF annual meeting after a deadly Taliban attack in his country.
Persistent capital inflows by domestic institutional investors and retail investors kept the markets in fine nick
Even as high attrition rates continue to haunt Infosys, the country's second-largest IT services firm is confident of bringing it down to 12-14 per cent in the next two quarters as it gets back to the growth trajectory.
Sentiments took a hit after broader Asian markets weakened, following a renewed sell-off on Wall Street on Tuesday as energy shares dropped after crude oil prices plunged to a 13-month low amid weak earnings and US-China trade disputes, fuelling worries about economic growth
Sensex ends belowe 26,800 on domestic concerns.
The Tata Group has close to 110 companies and Chandrasekaran plans to bring this number down to around five or six.
The broader NSE Nifty gained 22 points to 10,480.60
Experts, however, are of the opinion that a world manned mostly by bots is still some time away. Also, new jobs -- of bot builders and supervisors -- will emerge with time.
For the full 2016-17, Wipro's profit fell nearly 5 per cent to Rs 8,518 crore while total income grew 7.4 per cent to Rs 57,995 crore compared to the previous fiscal.
Google is the most attracitve employer in India followed by Sony
The Cyrus Mistry camp is confident that independent directors will take their cue from their counterparts in Indian Hotels.
Infosys, however, feels the high level of cash is an important tool to weather tough times.
Infosys, as part of performance improvement programme, allows 'poor performers' to undergo training to get into shape.
Infosys added 10,997 employees (gross) in the last quarter of FY'14 and 39,985 during the fiscal to take its total headcount to 1,60,405 people.
Wipro said recently it was expecting its revenue growth to drop 2.33 per cent or stay flat between $2,015 and $2065 million.
Sun Pharma dipped 2% to Rs 615 on the BSE, its lowest level since November 9, 2016
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That resulted in a 50-basis point improvement in operating profit margins on a sequential basis.
Infosys: Sikka magic may revive double-digit revenue growth
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