Author: Finance Khabar

New Delhi: Nestle India shares edged higher by 0.5 per cent at opening bell after the Maggi, dairy products and coffee maker, post market hours on Tuesday, reported that its net profit in quarter ended June 30, 2020 rose 11.14 per cent to Rs 486.6 crore from Rs 437.79 crore during the same quarter last year. At 9:25am, the stock was trading at Rs 17,156, higher by 42 points or 0.2 per cent, on the BSE. The company’s revenues from sale of products advanced 2 per cent annually to Rs 3,041.45 crore. “Sales were adversely impacted due to the COVID-19…

New Delhi: Pharmaceuticals major Dr Reddy’s Laboratories on Wednesday reported a 12.60 per cent annual decline in its net profit to Rs 579.3 crore in the quarter ended June 30. The drug maker had reported a net profit of Rs 662.8 crore in the corresponding period a year ago. In a regulatory filing, Dr Reddy’s Labs said its revenue from operations came in at Rs 4,417.5 crore in the April-June period, marking a rise of 15 per cent compared to the year-ago period. The Hyderabad-based company’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) – or operating profit – rose…

New Delhi: Global giants such as Saudi Aramco, Exxon Mobil and India’s Reliance Industries are in the race to pick up the Centre’s 52.98 per cent stake in BPCL as the shares of the PSU jumped 12.65 per cent, or Rs 49.85, to Rs 443.90 on the Bombay Stock Exchange in expectation of a mega deal. According to official sources, Saudi Aramco, Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (Adnoc), Rosneft of Russia, Exxon Mobil and RIL are likely to vie for the BPCL stake. The deadline for submitting EoIs (expression of interest) is July 31 after the government twice postponed the…

MUMBAI: Telecom industry has lost 82 lakh subscribers during the complete lockdown in April, and COVID-19 pandemic will continue to keep customer additions under pressure, according to a report. The decline in subscriber base during April was preceded by a loss of 28 lakh connections in March, which saw the lockdown being imposed towards the end, India Ratings and Research said in note. The biggest losers were Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, it said, adding sector leader Reliance Jio witnessed a growth in its base.“The industry-wide subscriber base declined month-on-month by 2.8 million and 8.2 million in March and April…

MUMBAI: Country’s largest power generation company, NTPC Ltd. has achieved highest daily gross generation of 977.07 Million Unit (MU) on 28th July, 2020. NTPC total generation includes power generated from its Subsidiary and JV companies. Five of its power stations Korba, Sipat & Lara in Chhattisgarh, Talcher Kaniha in Odisha and Koldam hydro in Himachal Pradesh exhibited exceptional performance & achieved 100% Plant Load Factor (PLF) on the day. NTPC’s previous best daily generation was 935.46 MU achieved on 12th March, 2019 With a total installed capacity of 62910 MW, NTPC Group has 70 Power stations comprising of 24 Coal,…

Mumbai: Markets in a highly volatile trade today ended sharply in the red on mixed cues. Investors sold into the recent rally in the IT stocks as well as outperformance in the RIL stock. Nifty ended lower by 97 points holding on to levels of 11200 points, while Sensex was down 421 points at 38071. Maruti Suzuki posted first quarterly loss in 15 years on low sales amid lockdown. The stock dived as much as 2.5% to end at Rs. 6172. MCX stock even amid the negative sentiment on an overall basis stood apart because of relentless rally in gold…

Mumbai: Maruti Suzuki in its June quarter results for FY21 posted a net loss of Rs. 249.4 crore due to revenue and operating loss on the back of sharp decline in sales volume. But the results however came in better than analyst estimates on account of lower operating expenses and tax-write back. In the March ended quarter of 2020, profit came in at Rs. 1291.7 crore. Revenue from operations declined sharply by 79.2 percent to Rs 4,106.5 crore compared to year-ago period. “Operations and financial results for the quarter ended June 2020 have been adversely impacted by the outbreak of…

In a stock exchange filing, Sun Pharma said that a subsidiary of its American arm Taro Pharmaceutical will acquire Canada’s Aquinox Pharmaceutical for $8.2 million (approx Rs 61.35 crore) in cash. Aquinox Pharmaceuticals is a corporation organised and existing under the laws of the Province of British Columbia that carries on the business of research and development of pharmaceutical products for purposes of their commercialisation. “One of the wholly-owned subsidiaries of our subsidiary company, Taro Pharmaceutical Industries, has agreed to acquire by way of purchase of all outstanding shares of Aquinox Pharmaceuticals (Canada),” Sun Pharma said in a regulatory filing.…

New Delhi: InterGlobe Aviation reported a net loss of Rs 2,844.3 crore for the June ended quarter when compared to a net profit of Rs 1,203.1 crore for the same period last year. The parent of IndiGo Airlines saw its revenue plunge by 91.9 percent year-on-year to Rs 766.7 crore from a year ago. The quarter is especially critical as airlines were not allowed to operate flights commercially for most of the April-June period due to COVID-19 outbreak and asked to refund passengers for their cancelled ticket. The low-cost carrier said it had a total cash balance at the end…

Barclays posted a net income of £695 million ($765.64 million) for the first half of 2020, while increasing its coronavirus-related provisions. “While the remainder of 2020 will be challenging, our diversified model means we can remain financially resilient and continue to support our customers and clients,” Jes Staley, CEO of Barclays, said in a statement. In the first three months of 2020, the British lender reported net profit of £605 million. At the time, the bank said it was taking a £2.1 billion credit impairment charge to prepare for any shocks from the current crisis. The stock is down about…

New Delhi: Amid the crisis covid-19, IndiGo has now announced a cut in the salary of its senior employees by 35 percent. The company said on Monday that the move has been taken for cash management. Indigo has been cutting its senior personnel salaries by up to 25 percent since May. On July 20, the company announced that it was going to increase the deduction a bit more. In order to deal with the economic crisis facing the company due to the epidemic, it will cut its employees’ salary by 10 percent. “I am increasing my own salary cut to…

IDFC FIRST Bank has announced the opening of its MBA Scholarship programme for the batch of 2020-2022, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). As its flagship CSR programme, the scholarship is available to MBA aspirants across the country. It aims to financially support students from weaker social economic backgrounds, enabling them to pursue a management degree from a B-school of their choice. To qualify for the scholarship, the candidate needs to secure admission into a two-year full-time MBA programme and the family income has to be less than Rs. 6 lakhs per annum. The initiative provides financial assistance…

New Delhi: Bharti AXA General Insurance, a joint venture between Bharti Enterprises, one of India’s leading business groups, and AXA, one of the world’s largest insurance companies, has launched its crop insurance campaign – ‘Bohot Zaroori Hai’ – for farmers in Maharashtra and Karnataka to encourage them about their yield protection and financial security. The company has secured the mandate to insure the farmers in Maharashtra and Karnataka for a period of three years under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna (PMFBY), which provides them protection for the losses occurring owing to uncertainty and unfavourable weather vagaries resulting in yield…

Mumbai: IT major Tech Mahindra on Monday posted a profit after tax of Rs 972 crore in Q1 FY21, up 21 per cent from Rs 804 crore in the previous quarter (Q4 FY20).Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) were down 3.5 per cent to Rs 1,301 crore while revenue fell by 4 per cent to Rs 9,106 crore in the same period. Earnings per share were at Rs 11.07.In dollar terms, the consolidated profit after tax was up 18.2 per cent at 128.8 million quarter-on-quarter while revenue came down 6.7 per cent to 1.2 billion dollars.”We are witnessing…

Mumbai: Equity benchmark indices ended half a per cent lower on Monday due to profit booking in banking and financial stocks.At the closing bell, the BSE S&P Sensex was down by 194 points or 0.51 per cent at 37,935 while the Nifty 50 slipped by 62 points or 0.56 per cent at 11,132. Except for Nifty IT which moved up by 1.9 per cent and metal, all sectoral indices at the National Stock Exchange were in the red with Nifty private bank down by 3.6 per cent, PSU bank by 3.1 per cent, financial service by 2.4 per cent and…

Gold prices in India once again trended higher on surge in international rates. On the MCX, gold for August delivery was up 1.54% or Rs. 785 at Rs. 51820 per 10gm. Silver too jumps another 5.5% or Rs. 3371 to hit level of Rs. 64594 per kg. In the international markets, gold nudged higher yet again after breaching the crucial level of $1900 per ounce on safe haven demand. And with just $3 shy of all time high, the yellow metal is eyeing new highs. Spot gold was up 0.8% at $1,916.91 per ounce by 0030 GMT, was just $3.39…

Mumbai: Kotak Mahindra Bank reported an 8.51 percent decline in net profit to Rs 1,244.45 crore for the June ended quarter when compared to Rs 1,360.20 crore in the corresponding quarter of the last year. Shares of the private lender slipped over 2 percent after the announcement of the quarterly results. For the first quarter of 2020-21, Kotak Mahindra Bank’s provisions and contingencies rose by 3 times to Rs 962.01 crore against Rs 316.76 crore in the same period last year. Net intererst income (NII) was up by 17.81 percent year-on-year to Rs 3,723.85 crore. The bank’s asset quality also…

New Delhi: As the need to sail through economic fallout due to Covid 19 becomes a priority, the RBI in its upcoming monetary policy meet is yet again expected to go for another 25 basis points rate cut. This is even as the repo rate now stands at a historical low of 4%. Repo rate is the rate at which RBI lends money to commercial banks for short term needs. Also, the likelihood of rate cut gathers pace despite inflation figures for the recent month being higher than RBI’s comfort level of 2-6% by a few notches. The Monetary Policy…

The largest crypto Bitcoin after being in arrange for last few weeks on Sunday hit price levels over $10000 for the first time. Also, the bitcoin other than suffering the pandemic related blow also met with bitcoin halving on may 11, which reduce the reward for those who mine bitcoins to to 6.25 new coins from 12.5. The process of bitcoin halving has impacted the supply of bitcoin and simultaneously increased the time required by miners to get hold of their break even point. On Sunday, the cryptocurrency hit highs of $10,200.

New delhi: An Indian court has summoned Alibaba and its founder Jack Ma in a case in which a former employee in India says he was wrongfully fired after objecting to what he saw as censorship and fake news on company apps, documents seen by Reuters showed. The case comes weeks after India cited security concerns in banning Alibaba’s UC News, UC Browser and 57 other Chinese apps after a clash between the two countries’ forces on their border. Following the ban, which China has criticized, India sought written answers from all affected companies, including whether they censored content or…