With a good 69 per cent of its existing customers having trimmed their IT budgets by about 10 per cent, volumes too could be weaker. In a difficult environment, business from new clients is understandably harder to come by and taking far longer than it did earlier. Which is why the tech major has announced a fairly conservative dollar revenue outlook: revenues for 2009-10 will be lower by 3-7 per cent over 2008-09 levels.
Accenture announces opportunities for experienced professionals.
Mid-caps in cyclical sectors such as cement, financials and capital goods estimated to earn much more
Utter confusion prevails in the ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in Tamil Nadu.
'Nobody is telling you not to speak or learn your mother tongue. But making other languages an emotional issue is wrong.'
The earnings per share (EPS) ratio indicates the earning of a common share in a year. This ratio enables investors to actually quantify the income earned by a share, and to determine whether it is reasonably priced. The ratio is arrived at by dividing the income attributable to common shareholders by the weighted average of the number of common shares. In countries, where employees are given stock options, investors check a company's fully diluted earnings per share.
The suspicious van was wanted over the terror attacks and was taken into custody at Sungavila.
If someone does reduce his contribution, he should scale it back to the 12% level as soon as he can, suggests Sanjay Kumar Singh.
Ranbaxy Laboratories has acquired Be-Tabs Pharmaceuticals, the fifth-largest generics company in South Africa, for $70 million.
But the question before the leadership will be whether to retain the BJP alliance or dump it, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
The Anil Ambani group firm is the sole bidder for the engineering, procurement and construction contract for DVC's proposed 1,000 MW thermal power plant at Raghunathpur in Purulia district of West Bengal.
Considering that the Supreme Court has now included two, rather three, new variable to the tribunal's findings, it could imply that whenever the current order comes in for review, the two states could raise specific issues flowing from them, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
The 10 people from a group of 22 Indian nationals faces upto seven weeks in jail after they pleaded guilty on Tuesday.
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Vasudeo Joshi of Man Financial says that numbers posted by Reliance was slightly below expectations. According to their full-year estimates, EPS is expected at Rs 70 for Reliance.
Operating Income crosses $ 1 billion; Q4 revenues at $1.2 billion; up 8% Q-o-Q.
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Higher education policy may be at the core of the Tamil Nadu assembly polls next May, with a potential to break the ties between the ruling AIADMK in the state and the BJP counterpart at the national level, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Transcript of the market chat held on February 7.
India's "proactive operation" against terrorists in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir should be "commended" and supported by the international community, a top European Parliament official has said, underlining that New Delhi deserves global support in its fight against terror.
In the past 12 months, such earnings have grown in double digits in Europe, the US, Japan and South Korea.
For a party that has adopted the successful social re-engineering model from Gujarat, Rajasthan and across the rest of the 'Hindi belt' over the past decades, Tamil Nadu continues to remain a tricky customer, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
According to sources, the proposal is listed in the agenda of the meeting of the Union Cabinet scheduled for Friday.
Dipan Mehta, member of BSE and NSE expects the market to open strong on account of short covering in the tech sector. He believes that the tech, along with the construction and the engineering sector will see action.
There is little sense in trying to find stocks that will not be vulnerable in a situation where 87% of the market is trending down and India is getting set for a crucial election, says Devangshu Datta.
'It may take the AIADMK much more convincing than already, not only to try and bring around even the one-time Muslim voters of the party. 'More importantly, the party leadership may find it even more difficult to convince traditional party voters and cadres, who had admired Jaya's nonchalance to the party and leader ruling the Centre,' says N Sathiya Moorthy.
An index P/E of 23 implies that the market is already discounting EPS growth at 20% or more, says Devangshu Datta.
'I have a voice and must use it to do as much as I can.'
Fall in crude prices has eased interest rate worries and that expectation of good Q2 is already factored in the prices.
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