Dilip Buildcon said the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board has awarded it an LPG pipeline from Paradip in Odisha to Raipur in Chhattisgarh, a project it values at Rs 1,800 crore. Construction is to take three years, followed by 25 years of operation…
Why it matters: Dilip Buildcon is known mainly as a road contractor; a pipeline it owns and operates for 25 years brings a different kind of income, a transport tariff over time instead of a one-off construction payment, and needs the company to fund the…
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US inflation is running more than one percentage point above the Fed's 2% goal, and the minutes keep a further increase on the table without naming a meeting. Market pricing, as reported, points to no change in October…
A company's first result after listing is the first set of numbers that was not in its prospectus, and for these four it produced moves of 3% to 20% in a day in opposite directions. The results are for April-June, a…
No dates or price band have been announced, so this remains a report, not a schedule. If it opens next week it shares the calendar with HD Fire Protect (October 13-15, Rs 258-271 a share) and comes shortly before the…
Tariffs are the main lever on a telecom operator's average revenue per user, and postpaid customers are the highest-paying part of the base, so a Rs 50 rise there adds revenue with little extra network cost. Postpaid…
Standalone refiners such as CPCL and MRPL earn the gross refining margin - the gap between crude and product prices - and have no retail pump network on which prices are held down, so a product-led rise in oil shows up…
The close shows where a higher policy rate was priced first: capital-heavy metal producers (Hindalco, JSW Steel, Tata Steel) and borrowers' purchases such as vehicles and homes, where loan costs feed straight into…
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The finance angle is the Rs 25,000 crore Anant Raj committed to data-centre infrastructure in Haryana under a June 2026 memorandum: the Orange tie-up is about finding overseas tenants for that capacity. A developer…
The three debuts tracked their subscription levels: the issue with bids for more than 600 times the shares on offer opened far above its price, while the two with lighter books opened almost flat. That spread is the…
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New coal-fired capacity is being ordered again by public utilities, and the equipment and construction work goes to a short list of Indian suppliers of boilers and turbines, L&T and BHEL among them. For L&T the order…
Both updates describe the same market: record gold prices are lifting the value of each sale while fewer new buyers come in, and part of this year's festive demand falls in the December quarter. For listed jewellers…
The split shows where the market places the cost of dearer money: on businesses whose sales depend on financed purchases (vehicles, homes) and on non-bank lenders that borrow wholesale, rather than on banks, whose…
Automobile and Auto Components · Realty · Financial ServicesUpstox ↗
The repo rate sets the price of floating-rate home, vehicle and business loans, so the change reaches banks and non-bank lenders through loan pricing and funding costs, and housing developers and vehicle makers through…
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The repo rate feeds straight into floating-rate home, car and small-business loans linked to external benchmarks, so a change reprices a large part of bank and housing-finance loan books within a quarter, while deposit…
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For Gabriel India, known for shock absorbers and other ride-control parts, the venture adds a second product line, though as a minority holder it will not consolidate the seating revenue. For Forvia, India is named as…
These are the drafts companies lodged in the last days of September and the first days of October, now public for comment. A draft is not an IPO: SEBI's observations usually take months and several filings never reach…
For chemical companies, the note describes a recovery driven by selling prices rather than by cheaper inputs. Amines producers gain from lower ammonia and methanol, their main feedstocks, while fluorochemical makers…
These are the first hard numbers for the quarter from public-sector lenders and they match the acceleration private banks reported a day earlier. For bank earnings the open question is margins: loan growth of 17-19%…
This gives banks and payment companies a fee line on UPI, which has been free for merchants. The exposed businesses are acquiring banks and listed payment aggregators on the revenue side, and on the cost side merchants…
After a week with one small new issue, October's fundraising depends almost entirely on Jio Platforms, whose reported size is about twenty times that of Paras Healthcare. In Tonbo Imaging's case all proceeds go to…
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TCS is the first large IT exporter to report, so its commentary on pricing, client budgets and deal conversions sets the reference for Infosys, HCLTech and Wipro, which follow. The report lists the points analysts are…
The finance angle is the size of the untapped domestic market: with about 75% of firms not yet using AI, most enterprise spending on it in India is still ahead, and that is the revenue line Indian IT services…
For Brainbees Solutions, the listed parent of FirstCry, the Swara issue turns part of a holding in its own diaper supplier into Rs 300 crore of cash. Swara's FY26 revenue was Rs 1,163.9 crore and profit Rs 95.58 crore…
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The two reports differ by more than Rs 5,000 crore on issue size, so the price band is the figure to wait for. Either way the issue is entirely new shares: the money goes to Jio Platforms, and Reliance Industries, its…
The forecast itself moves no company's revenue; it is a reading of where demand has been strongest. The Bank's emphasis on household spending points at consumer goods, autos and retail lenders, and the construction and…
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Retail registrations show what actually left showrooms, as against the factory despatches the carmakers reported on October 1, so they bear on dealer stock at passenger-vehicle, two-wheeler and truck makers and on…
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Crude below $100 eases the import bill and the input costs of oil marketers, airlines, paints and chemicals, which is why Reliance, IndiGo and Asian Paints were among the gainers. Banks and consumer names moved on…
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Both mainboard openings were well short of what the unofficial grey market had implied: Business Today notes premiums pointing to 46-48% for SRIT India and 9-10% for Shah Investor's Home. That gap, in an issue…
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These are the first hard readings on discretionary spending for the quarter, and they came in above forecasts even though part of the festive season moved into October-December: Citi had pencilled in 18% growth for…
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All four beat the loan-growth estimates Business Today cites from Motilal Oswal, days before the results season and one day before the RBI's rate decision. Part of the jump is one-off: banks raised foreign-currency…
Exchanges and brokers earn most of their transaction income from derivatives, so the method that fixes the expiry-day settlement price feeds straight into volumes. Under CAS, trading bunched into the final minutes…
The finance angle is where AI capital spending reaches Indian suppliers: Rs 150 crore for this order and close to Rs 300 crore from this one hyperscaler in under a year, paid to an Indian contractor for building and…
Two things stand out for bank earnings. Growth is being funded mostly by term and foreign-currency deposits, which cost more than savings balances, so the share of cheap deposits is falling and that weighs on the…
A memorandum is a statement of intent, not a funded order: no timeline or financing plan was given, and the sum is large against the company's present size, so how it is paid for is the open question for shareholders…
The bullion change lands on banks that import gold for jewellers and on jewellery makers, who would see tax paid earlier in the chain and more working capital tied up until credit is claimed; the end price to buyers…
An interim agreement is already in place, so this is about the wider deal and the tariff rate Indian exporters end up with against competing countries. The companies exposed are export-heavy ones selling into the US…
Jet fuel is roughly 40% of an Indian airline's operating cost, so a 13.2% rise in one month cannot be absorbed without either higher fares or lower margins. IndiGo is choosing fares; the test is whether demand holds as…
India imports most of its crude, and much of it comes from the Gulf, so the volume moving through Hormuz matters as much as the headline price. More cargoes getting through eases the supply squeeze that has kept Brent…
Banks, insurers, payment systems and government bodies often cannot send customer data abroad, which has kept many AI projects at the pilot stage; local processing removes that obstacle for Claude. The money flows to…
The finance angle is revenue that is bought and locked in. Wipro's Mindsprint deal is put at about USD 1 billion (Rs 9,625 crore) of revenue over eight years; TCS paid about Rs 2,000 crore for Best Buy's centre. These…
At that size it would be the largest IPO India has seen, and the first from the Reliance group since 2008. Reliance holds 66.4% of Jio Platforms and Meta and Google together 17.7%; because the issue is entirely new…
Two listed groups sit on either side of this. Health and general insurers would pay out less per claim, which is the industry's stated aim: it blames hospital billing inflation for rising claim costs and premiums…
The openings did not track demand in the way SME debuts often have: Bench Mark Infotech was subscribed 72.35 times and still opened flat, while Sai Urja, subscribed 3.88 times, opened higher. The two issues with the…
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The rebound was narrow: FMCG, consumer durables and PSU banks carried it, while small caps, hospitals and part of IT closed lower. ITC's move followed analyst comments that its response to the cigarette tax increase is…
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Bajaj Finance is the largest listed consumer lender outside the banks, so its quarterly update is read as a gauge of retail credit demand ahead of the festival season and of an RBI decision on October 7 where…
Bauxite is the starting raw material for alumina and aluminium, so the ruling settles a cost dispute rather than changing output. CLSA estimates a near-term rise in production cost of roughly $10 a tonne and a one-time…
Margin lending has become a core revenue line for brokerages: three-month paper for non-bank lenders yields about 7.18%, while brokers charge clients 9-20% on margin loans. The exposure sits with bank-owned and listed…
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