Thursday, 31 March 2016

Key corporate and industry news

•             Bharti Airtel’s low-cost strategy unsustainable: BMI Research (FE)

•             Wipro Ltd. on Wednesday announced appointing Paypal Holdings executive Patrick Dupuis as an independent director from April 1. (IANS)

•             Hindustan Zinc's 1,200% dividend (Rs24/share)  is the highest ever by a private co (ET)
•             Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd's food processing arm has raised Rs 402 crore from Mandala Capital for growth of the company. (PTI)

•             UTI Asset Management Co. Ltd, has proposed an IPO plan to the government to provide an exit to its four state-run sponsors—SBI, LIC, BoB and PNB (Mint)

•             Vijay Mallya told Wednesday that he would pay Rs4000cr by September as settlement for a default on loans to banks. Bankers were unhappy with the proposal. (BS)

•             ICRA expects auto-component industry to gain momentum and register growth of 8%-10% in next fiscal (FY2017e). M&HCV demand is likely to stay robust but slow down to 13-15% given the increased base of FY2016

•             Government is likely to cut natural gas prices by 17 per cent from Friday to USD 3.15 per million British thermal unit from current USD 3.82. (PTI)

•             Domestic media and entertainment (M&E) sector would touch $100 billion in the next decade: Mukesh Ambani (BS)

•             Indian media industry likely to touch Rs2.26 trillion by 2020: KPMG-Ficci Report (Mint)

•             RBI eases ECB norms for infrastructure sector with a minimum maturity of 5yrs (Mint)

•             The government on Wednesday extended the safeguard duty on steel imports till March 2018 (BS)

•             Fertiliser demand is expected to be subdued during the first half of 2016-17 but low energy prices will help in aiding profitability of urea industry: ICRA (PTI)


•             India’s GDP will decelerate marginally to 7.4% in FY17 from 7.6% in FY16, mainly due to a slowdown in public investment, stressed corporate balance sheets and declining exports, ADB said in a new report on Wednesday. (FE)

No comments:

Post a Comment