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08 Feb

How Stock Markets Read Budget 2020, RBI Policy Review This Week

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Domestic stock markets rallied this week with benchmark indices clocking gains of nearly 4 per cent after the February 1 Budget announcements triggered their worst single-day fall in at least 17 months. The S&P BSE Sensex index registered a gain of 1,406.32 points (3.54 per cent) for the week while the broader NSE Nifty benchmark added 436.5 points (3.74 per cent). That marked the biggest weekly gain for the 30-scrip benchmark index since March 2019. Analysts say that the Budget may support the economy in the long term, even though it fell short of near-term market expectations.

07 Feb

Lockheed Martin Inks Pact With BEL To Explore Opportunities For F-21 Fighter

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US defence giant Lockheed Martin on Friday inked an agreement with the state-run Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) to explore opportunities in the F-21 fighter jet programme.Lockheed Martin has exclusively offered its F-21 military aircraft to India, with an eye to bag the Indian Air Force's $18 billion dollar deal to procure 114 jets."Lockheed Martin signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with defence PSU BEL to explore industrial opportunities in the F-21 programme at DefExpo 2020," the company said in a statement.

07 Feb

LIC Valuation Yet To Be Decided, Will Speak To Staff On IPO: Chairman

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The divestment of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) by the government will not cause any problems for the company's employees, chairman MR Kumar told NDTV on Friday. There will be a reaction by the staff but the company will talk to them, said the LIC chairman, assuring that the proposed stake sale will not lead to its privatization of the insurer. In the Union Budget for 2020-21, the government proposed to divest a part of its stake in LIC in a move that could result in the partial listing of the country's largest insurance company, which led to protests by the…

07 Feb

Sensex, Nifty Snap Four-Day Winning Streak Led By Losses In Reliance Industries, HDFC

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S&P BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty 50 indexes snapped their four-day winning streak dragged by losses in Reliance Industries, Kotak Mahindra Bank, ICICI Bank, Larsen & Toubro, IndusInd Bank and Bharti Airtel. Since the Budget, which was presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday, the Sensex has and Nifty have surged 4 per cent each. Concerns about the economic impact from a coronavirus epidemic led to a downturn in global sentiment which impacted Indian stocks as well. Asian share markets fell on Friday and oil price gains stalled, as the growing death toll and economic damage from the coronavirus…

06 Feb

Bharti Airtel Inches Higher Despite Loss In Third Quarter

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Bharti Airtel is trading marginally in the green, albeit off the highs of the day, after reporting third straight quarterly loss after market hours on Tuesday. India's third largest telecom firm posted a loss of Rs 1,035 crore for the three months ended December 31 compared with a profit of Rs 86.2 crore a year earlier. The loss, however, narrowed from a whopping Rs 23,044 crore in the September quarter.At 11:30 a.m, the shares of Bharti Airtel were trading higher by Rs 2 or 0.3 per cent at Rs 521 on the BSE amid the Sensex's gains of 0.3 per…

06 Feb

RBI Keeps Lending Rate Unchanged At 5.15%, Pegs Growth At 6% In 2020-21

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kept the repo rate unchanged at 5.15 per cent on Thursday, in line with economists expectations, in a bid to combat inflation. The central bank, however, retained its accommodative monetary policy stance as growth remains lacklustre. RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das-led Monetary Policy Committee decided to continue with an "accommodative" policy stance "as long as it is necessary to revive growth, while ensuring that inflation remains within the target". The "underlying theme of our decisions is financial stability", said the RBI governor. All six members of the Monetary Policy Committee voted in favour of maintaining…

06 Feb

Weak Growth To Pull Down Rupee, Coronavirus Fears To Impinge

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The battered rupee will weaken further against the dollar over the coming year as a significant pickup in economic growth is unlikely, according to a Reuters poll of strategists who said the coronavirus outbreak was a downside risk.While Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das has said reviving growth was a 'national objective' in coordination with the government, the latest budget provided only minimal support to the slowing economy.That comes as a deadly coronavirus epidemic that is spreading globally has spooked investors and sent them rushing for cover into safe-haven assets and shunning emerging markets.

04 Feb

Coming Up, LIC And Other Multi-Billion Dollar IPOs In India

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India is gearing up for what could potentially be a slew of mega initial public offerings.Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government surprised investors on Saturday by saying it will sell part of its stake in state-run behemoth Life Insurance Corporation of India to meet its record asset-sale target. The jumbo sale could fetch the government between Rs 850 billion ($11.9 billion) and Rs 900 billion if it gets done this year, Credit Suisse Group AG analysts led by Neelkanth Mishra wrote in a note.Meanwhile, Sameer Kalra, a strategist at Target Investing, estimates the IPO to be valued between Rs 910 billion…

04 Feb

Titan Q3 Net Profit Rises 13% To Rs 470 Crore Due To Festival Cheer

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Titan Company reported a 12.9 per cent rise in standalone net profit at Rs 469.95 crore for the quarter ended December 2019 compared to net profit of Rs 416.23 crore in the same quarter a year ago, due to the festival season in October and November, the company said in a regulatory filing. Sales for the quarter under consideration rose 8.4 per cent to Rs 6,105.96 crore from Rs 5,632.45 crore in the same quarter last year. The jewellery business recorded income growth of 10.6 per cent at Rs 5,409 crores in the third quarter this year compared to Rs…

04 Feb

Government May Issue $5 Billion Of Bonds With No Foreign Investment Cap

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The government is likely to issue at least $5 billion worth of bonds with no limits on foreign investment next year, in a bid to list the bonds on global indices and attract more foreign funds, according to two finance ministry sources.Government is likely to issue the bonds in several tranches of at least $400 million each, one source said."We have spoken to major index operators and we will start pushing these bonds in tranches very early in the first half of the next fiscal year itself," the first official said.