From the Sensex firms, Tata Steel climbed the most by 3.40 per cent, followed by Power Grid, Axis Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Larsen & Toubro, Bharat Electronics and Bharti Airtel. In contrast, Tech Mahindra, Maruti, UltraTech Cement and Bajaj Finserv were among the major laggards.
Mutual funds' largecap investment universe is expected to see seven changes in the upcoming stock reclassification exercise by the Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi). According to a report by IIFL Securities, Hero MotoCorp, Zydus Lifesciences, JSW Energy, NHPC, Bharat Heavy Electricals, Bosch and Samvardhana Motherson are expected to earn upgrades in the revised list of largecap, midcap and smallcap stocks set to be released in the first week of July. Amfi revises the list at the start of January and July every year based on the previous six-month performance of the stock.
Corporate margins and profits in India remain vulnerable to changes in crude oil prices in the international market. Historical quarterly data from listed companies (excluding banks, finance and insurance, oil and gas, and power sectors) indicate an adverse correlation between corporate margins and crude oil prices.
Stocks of public sector undertakings (PSUs) have been on fire in the past year as investors cheered an improvement in key operating metrics and embraced counters of these state-owned enterprises, analysts suggest. The S&P BSE PSU Index has gained over 90 per cent in the past year, rising much higher than the S&P BSE Sensex, which has rose nearly 19 per cent during this period, according to ACE Equity data. The BSE PSU Index, reports show, has delivered a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 28 per cent (including dividends reinvestments) over five years and risen by almost 60 per cent in the past year.
In a significant move to enhance its strategic resource security, India has officially released its first-ever critical minerals list, identifying 30 key critical minerals crucial to the nation's economic growth and technological development. This pioneering step aims at reducing import dependence, enhancing supply-chain resilience, and supporting the country's net-zero objectives. Union Minister Parliamentary Affairs, Coal and Mines Pralhad Joshi, while releasing the Critical Minerals for India report in New Delhi on Wednesday, said, "India is readying for an Atmanirbhar Bharat."
The re-opening of the Chinese economy, as it moves away from its zero-Covid policy, could help stabilise commodity prices, according to some of the country's top metal companies. They view this as a positive for demand, at a time when markets such as the US and Europe have been largely weighed down by slowdown concern now. "Most of us in the metals business are hoping the Chinese economy picks up because half of any metal demand, including demand for aluminium, comes from China.
The EV industry is at an inflection point and batteries will play a critical role ahead -- batteries and related components typically constitute 35-45 per cent of an EV's costs.
Faced with one setback after another in expanding the scope of mining in the country, almost all the major miners of the world have wound down their operations in India.
Stocks of government probables for divestment or stake sale such as Steel Authority of India (SAIL), Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL), National Aluminium Company (Nalco) and Container Corporation (Concor) have outperformed the markets in the past one year.
National Aluminium Company (Nalco) has chalked out plans to enter the power business through the special purpose vehicle (SPV) route. The company plans to produce over 2000 MW by 2016.
A meeting of the board of directors of National Aluminium Company Ltd is scheduled to be held on January 30 to consider and take on record the unaudited financial results (provisional) for the three months ended December 31, 2002.
Industry observers were anticipating further divestment in the two public sector companies. The government has already divested about 13 per cent of its stake in aluminum producer Nalco and 0.41 per cent in the copper firm Hindustan Copper. Both, the companies are listed on the bourses.
Mines Minister B K Handique said that his ministry is not in favour of any further equity dilution in the navratna PSU.
They want the authorities to fulfill their security-related demands which include no duty in the mining area after sunset, increasing the number of security personnel and their presence in the workers' colony and in buses used to transport the workers. The operations have halted following a Naxalite attack on the site in which 10 CISF jawans and five Naxalites were killed. About 100 Nalco workers were held hostage by the ultras for over eight hours.
The policies of the Indonesian government and a volatile political situation in Iran are keeping the aluminium major from setting up its plants entailing an estimated investment of over Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion), NALCO CMD C R Pradhan told PTI during his recent visit to Kolkata. Nalco was aiming to ramp up its production capacity to 2,10,000 tonnes per annum for the current fiscal. In 2010-11, the capacity would be scaled up to 2,60,000 tonnes.
Aluminium producers are pleasantly surprised, as the price of the base metal reached a 14-month high of $2,188 per tonne this week despite the absence of any surge in consumption.
The National Aluminium Company (Nalco), India's second largest producer of the base metal, avoided a production cut by offering discounts to its key clients that helped it boost sales and trim rising inventory.
Base metals have recorded a sharp rise in prices as global demand picks up. Rising alongside are the share prices of the leading metal companies in the country like Sterlite, National Aluminium Company and Hindustan Zinc.
Currently, the public sector major has an inventory of 20,000 tonnes as against the usual level of 5,000 tonnes. Analysts expect the inventory to reach 25,000 tonnes by March-end. "We expect aluminium prices to remain below the cost of production for the next six to nine months," said Vipul Shah, an analyst with Mumbai-based brokerage K R Choksey Shares. "The outlook for aluminium is grim," he said.
Public sector blue chip firm National Aluminium Company, the largest manufacturer and exporter of aluminium in the country, proposes to make a foray into wind power generation.
National Aluminium Company Ltd has won the Engineering Export Promotion Council's All India Export award in the "star performer" category for 2005-06, the firm said on Friday.
Production of finished aluminium in National Aluminium Company Limited's smelter plant at Orissa's Angul stopped on Friday with its employees going on a strike, protesting the Centre's decision to divest 10 per cent stake of the company.
The mines ministry has sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention in bailing out aluminium giant Nalco of the acute paucity of coal, which has forced the PSU to close down two of its captive power plants.
National Aluminium Company of India Ltd has posted a net profit of Rs 1276.70 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2002 as compared to a net profit of Rs 1101.90 million in the corresponding period last fiscal.
The divestment of government holding in Bharat Petroleum Corporation and National Aluminium Company would be undertaken simultaneously in the Indian and American markets, according to Communications and Divestment Minister Arun Shourie.
The finance ministry's proposal to off-load a small part of the government equity in National Aluminium Company Ltd has been rejected by the administrative ministry.
National Aluminium Company Ltd, the largest alumina-aluminium producer and exporter of the country, has planned a Rs 4000-crore investment in capacity expansion.
The reduction in customs duties on non-ferrous metals would keep a check on a rise in prices, as landed cost of these would effectively reduce
In the wake of renewed threats from the unions to stall the proposed public offering of shares, the government is reworking its strategy to go ahead with the divestment of National Aluminium Company.\n\n\n\n
Indian aluminium producers are one of the lowest cost producers in the world, which is a significant advantage.
India's second-largest aluminium maker National Aluminium Company Ltd will take more time to complete an expansion of its smelter due to a delay in the arrival of some machines and equipments, a top industry source said on Wednesday.
The National Aluminium Company Ltd has earned a profit after tax of Rs 520.92 crore (Rs 5,209.2 million) during 2002-03, according to the company's chairman-cum-managing director C Venkataramana.
The divestment department has lined up a host of companies.
Traditionally, most PSUs have been cash-rich, which added to their value. However, the government has been tapping regularly into their cash resources to boost revenue for the exchequer
The national budget 2019-20 had an outlay of Rs 10,000 crore for Phase-II of the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles scheme to boost electric mobility and increase the number of EVs in commercial fleets.
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