Stocks and sectors impacted most by GST.
The number of deals announced in the month were the highest ever at 102 for any month, compared to 75 in the same period last year and 92 deals in March.
The move marks the entry of GWM, one of the largest manufacturers of sport utility vehicles (SUVs) and pick-ups, into the Indian market and a complete exit for GM from the country, two years after it stopped selling cars here.
The $306-million investment in Ola Electric Mobility by SoftBank Corp, Arun Sarin Family, Ratan Tata and Matrix has been the biggest funding in this space in value terms this year.
Iraq is willing to double the credit period on crude sales to 60 days if Indian refiners buy more in 2014, the head of refineries at Hindustan Petroleum said. Iran has also sweetened the deal to expand its dwindling market share by offering free shipment and a nominal discount to Indian refiners, sources said last week.
India's corporate honchos spent a considerable time and energy this year at deal tables and executed over thousand transactions involving sale or purchase of equity stakes in their companies. On an average, every single day of 2007 saw about three deals being announced. This included a total of 1,047 merger and acquisitions as well as private equity deals for a total value of $68.32 billion (about Rs 2,75,000 crore).
While salary growth may range from a marginally positive to stagnant or even negative, the increment for some of the "super-specialised" profiles can go beyond 15%.
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Essar Energy Holdings, a part of the Essar group, has acquired an oil and gas exploration block in Nigeria in the latest round of bidding. The shallow offshore block is completely owned by Essar Energy.
5 commodities namely crude oil, natural gas, petrol, diesel, and aviation turbine fuel (ATF) were kept out of GST's purview given the revenue dependence of state governments on these sectors.
Given that India will get a huge part of its oil supplies from Iran through its government-owned oil PSUs, any unwelcome shocks in global crude rates could be absorbed well enough.
The board of Cairn India has on two occasions rejected oil ministry conditions that royalties paid by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation on its all important Rajasthan oilfields, be cost recoverable from oil sales saying this was against contractual provisions and not in the interest of the company and its shareholders.
Once Bhushan Steel is into its fold, Tata Steel will increase its capacity from 12.7 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) to 18.3 mtpa
The project, code-named MF101 by Foxconn, will be spread across 1,500 acres at Talegaon or Khopoli.
Domestic deals were the flavour of the month as there were 20 such transactions worth $2.77 billion in June 2015.
RIL will get $ 7.2 billion for the stake sale in 21 blocks and could get further $1.2 billion as performance payments based on exploration success resulting into development of commercial deliveries.
The Aditya Birla group's decision to merge two companies, each with an existing clutch of diverse businesses, flies in the face of the accumulated wisdom regarding conglomerates, says T N Ninan.
Government wants Cairn India to agree to pay royalty and cess on its all important Rajasthan block.
Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration has prohibited the sales of 'Red Bull', an energy drink, following complaints that the product's main ingredient Taurine is an animal derivative, which the company denies saying it is derived sythetically.
When it comes to the replacement of old tyres with new ones, car owners are in a catch-22 situation, wondering about the tyre brand, price and most importantly, tyre warranty.
Corporate ministry documents show that the Siva's firm kept taking loans from public sector banks like State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank which gradually turned to bad loans.
Cairn Energy Plc chief executive Bill Gammell described the 30-minute meeting as 'positive and constructive'.
A Chinese company, which promised plots of land on the moon has come up with a more earthly plan 'World Cup air' for sale.
Petronet India on Thursday kicked off its divestment programme by seeking bids for sale of 100 per cent stake of the company.
India has already pipped Japan as the world's third-largest oil consumer.
Deals will cover oil exploration and supply, infrastructure and an increase in direct diamond sales to India
India has not been able to compete with countries such as Bangladesh and Vietnam.
Traders have all but given up attempting to predict where the new-year rout will end
'While investors in Reliance have had to play a game of patience for long stretches, for Anil the challenge is to do what used to be his brother's forte -- generating cash by putting assets in the ground and making things,' says T N Ninan.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, Hua Chunying said China-Pakistan cooperation is in accordance with the 48-member nuclear club, which supervises global nuclear commerce.
'The economy is expected to bounce back and things are expected to recover faster than what we previously thought.'
November IIP data show a fall of over 20%, led by automobiles, gems & jewellery and home appliances; turnaround seen as unlikely.
More than three weeks after it announced the sale of a majority stake in its Indian arm to Vedanta Resources, UK's Cairn Energy Plc has formally applied to the government for approvals, saying it will meet all contractual requirements needed to fructify the deal.
The deal, part of the Jaypee Group's plan to cut Rs 60,000-crore debt, follows months of negotiations.
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Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
While the deal would help reduce debt at Jindal Steel, it would also be a boon for State Bank of India, which has been trying to broker an agreement between the companies
The government-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Cairn India's partner in the Barmer block in Rajasthan, is closely scrutinising the stake sale in Cairn India by Cairn Energy.
The strong correlation between its sales (revenue or turnover) and crude oil prices (average for the financial year) suggests that Ambani may be proved right.
