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India Inc's CFOs grab global honours

19 Indian CFOs in list of top performers in their industries; RIL, Bajaj Auto, Tata Motors among firms honoured

Market cool to recent RIL success

RIL's rising topline has failed to impress market as its weightage on Sensex has falled 86 bps in the year

HDFC Bank: Cheques and imbalances

Thanks to a tight leash on expenses and lower provisioning, HDFC Bank manages to beat estimates but core income disappoints

MRF trumps Apollo in home market

The Chennai-based tyre brand has not only grown faster but has done so profitably and without taking undue financial risks

Idea closing in on bigger rivals

Market worth has risen to half that of Airtel and double that of RCom

Listed companies liable to put aside Rs 8,100 cr in FY13 for CSR

India Inc putting structures and personnel in place, in line with new Companies Act

Balance sheets of Indian companies worsened in FY13

Just 28 firms accounted for nearly 75% of total borrowings but financial ratios in some of the most indebted sectors have begun to stabilise

Havells' low-cost dilemma

Its entry into low-cost switches with Reo has teething problems; scaling up its network is one of the solutions

Diversification losing sheen on D-St this yr

Bigger and broader indices do relatively poorly as investors get selective; experts see opportunity if scrips chosen with care

Top builders sitting on Rs 58,000-cr inventory

Nearly a third accounted for by DLF alone; HDIL's share 20%

Nifty is not a value buy any more

In past three years, there has been a steady decline in the return on equity for Nifty companies

Tough call on infra loans

Borrowings by top 17 construction and infra firms have jumped over five times since 2008 and now exceed their revenues

Crisis separated the men from the boys

While most Indian companies suffered after 2008, many scaled back to pre-crisis highs and raced ahead of their peers

TCS is now second among world's most valuable IT firms

With a market cap of $60 billion, exceeds Accenture and HP but trails IBM

Rising US bond yield may put pressure on RBI to hike rates

Bond yields in US are now up 136 bps from their lows in May this year

As bond yields rise in the US, RBI under pressure to raise rates in India

The central bank will have to raise rates to maintain the spread between the bond yield in India and US

Kaveri Seeds banks on research to reap success

Increasing competition & supply glut seen as key challenges for one of the largest seed companies in India

Outperformer Bajaj Corp shows FMCG companies the power of one

A single-minded focus on its most successful brand, Almond Drops, is the core theme of one of India's most profitable and fastest growing in its sector

2004 once more: IT back as market bellwether

The stock market comes full circle; pharma also gains prominence, courtesy rupee depreciation

Market gravity moving towards defensive stocks

IT and pharma account for a fifth of the Nifty, against about 15% at the beginning of the year