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Nifty50 valuation hits all-time high as investors bid up share prices

Index is trading at 30.4 times its trailing 12-month earnings per share, highest since it began reporting its ratios in 1999

Nifty Bank: 9 years of outperformance wiped in 4 months due to pandemic

The index has fallen 32% since January, against an 8.2% decline in Nifty50

Q1 early-bird results better than expected; IT, financial services do well

However, analysts expect the numbers to deteriorate as more companies announce their results

IT sector share in Nifty 50 at five-year high with overall weight of 15%

Combined market cap of five top IT companies, which are part of the index, is up 6.5% since the beginning of 2020 against a 6.6 per cent decline in market cap of the index

Covid-19 impact: Six of the top 10 family-owned businesses in the red

Leading business houses report pre-tax loss of Rs 19,342 crore in Q4

Tata Power to raise Rs 2,600 crore from Tata Sons via preferential issue

Tata Power board approves setting up of renewables InvIT

Q4 a red quarter for most of India Inc despite just seven days of lockdown

Except for finance and software players, companies report a combined loss of Rs 2,700 crore in Q4, the first in at least 24 quarters

Sensex races past developed markets in last one month, rises 14.2%

The benchmark BSE Sensex is up 14.2 per cent in the past one month against a 3 per cent appreciation in the Dow Jones during the period.

Imports from Hong Kong on the rise as trade gap with China narrows

India's trade deficit with China is on a downward trajectory, and hit a 5-year low in FY20 due to lower imports and higher exports, but trade deficit with Hong Kong continues to rise.

PSBs report sharp rise in deposits thanks to YES Bank, Franklin fiasco

Last financial year saw a series of banks failures starting with Punjab & Maharashtra Co-operative Bank and culminated in near collapse of YES Bank, India's 5th-largest private sector bank at its peak

Tax-burden on India's GDP to rise further, hitting consumption and savings

In FY19, indirect taxes (net of subsidies) accounted for nearly 10 per cent of GDP up from 9.3 per cent a year ago and low of 6.1 per cent in FY10

Early-bird results: 7-day Covid-19 lockdown in March affected India Inc

Combined profit before tax of 81 firms down 37.5% y-o-y, worst show in at least 3 years

RIL, Infosys, HUL account for 51% recovery in Sensex from 52-week low

In all, these three entities have added Rs 5.8 trillion to their m-cap during the period, against a Rs 11.3-trillion rise in the incremental m-cap of all 30 Sensex companies

RIL's valuation premium hits all-time high of 830 bps; stock rises over 3%

It is trading at nearly 28 times its trailing earnings per share against Sensex's 19.4

TCS snatches most-profitable tag from Reliance Industries after 6 years

The Mukesh Ambani-controlled conglomerate, however, remains miles ahead of TCS in other financial parameters such as total revenue, operating profit, net worth, assets, and m-cap.

Covid-19 lockdown: India Inc more vulnerable now than in recession of 2008

Profitability and cash reserves have halved since the global financial crisis

How economic crisis due to Covid-19 is different from 2008 meltdown

It's been a sudden slump in economic activity, as against a slow burn then

Listed MNCs remain immune to coronavirus outbreak as m-cap rises to 15%

With combined market capitalisation of Rs 13.8 trillion, 74 Indian subsidiaries of global multinationals are now ahead of state-owned listed companies

Coronavirus impact: GDP likely to fall to a three-decade low, say analysts

Total loss in output is estimated to be around Rs 6 trillion based on estimated GDP at current prices for FY20

Post coronavirus lockdown, industrial demand for power plummets by 30%

An overall generation down by 3.6 per cent YoY in March 2020, creating financial problem for producers