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Demonetisation hits financial sector's weight in Nifty

Banks and financial services lose out to information technology and power firms

Demonetisation impact on corporate: When things were beginning to improve

Biggest impact will be on the informal sector that accounts for the bulk of the GDP and employment

Opec-Russia combine may harden oil prices

With Russia, the oil cartel accounts for 53% of world crude production, based on 2015 data

ECB repayment turns costly for India Inc as rupee weakens

Nearly $50 bn loans due for repayment in FY17 & FY18, making India Inc liable to currency volatility

Karachi, Dhaka set to beat Mumbai, again

For second year in a row, BSE Sensex is likely to underperform Karachi, Dhaka stock indices

Rising commodity prices may squeeze India Inc margins

After a 500-basis point gain over the past six quarters, India Inc's Ebitda margins will be under pressure on rising metal and energy costs

Eight years later, India Inc more vulnerable

Corporate indebtedness is now twice what it was before global financial crisis; banks' bad loans ratio is 3.5 times higher

Modi govt yet to match UPA's economic record

GDP the only variable where the current government has kept pace with the previous one

Demonetisation hits the status of rupee as a storehouse of value

The fear of appropriation by the government could force savers to move away from rupee to gold, real estate and dollar assets

Cash crunch shadow on Sensex earnings

The 2008 global financial crisis changed corporate India's earnings trajectory. Demonetisation has the potential to inflict similar damage

TCS and JLR, 2 jewels in the Tata crown

Tata group has one of the best financial ratios and is among the lowest leveraged among the country's top family-owned groups

Tata's telecom venture: A call that went wrong

Ratan Tata's decision to enter the all-new world of CDMA technology-based mobile telephony in 2003 while getting out of Idea Cellular

Past investments to weigh on new Tata Sons chairman

Ratan Tata's strategy to derisk the group's portfolio by going global has ended up creating significant exposure to the EU

Tata group debt peaked, leverage declined under Mistry

Gross debt climbed 50% between 2011-12 and 2015-16, but net debt-to-equity ratio at a nine-year low in 2015-16

Demonetisation punctures consumption stocks

Investors in these stocks have lost nearly Rs 1.62 lakh crore worth of wealth in the past three days

Smaller Tata companies sparkled under Cyrus

Small- and mid-size companies where Cyrus was the chairman did better on bourses than large Tata group companies

Top family-owned business groups continue to struggle

The debt woes of India's top business houses are not over even 8 years after the Lehman crisis and their profit growth remains anaemic

Tata group firms' leverage has fallen since FY10

Tata Motors and Tata Steel, the most asset-heavy Tata companies, accounted for 60 per cent of the group's total capital employed in the previous financial year

Mistry family's stake in Tata Sons could be worth Rs 90,000 cr

Tata Sons' valuation estimated at Rs 5 lakh crore

Tatas saw faster dividend growth under Cyrus Mistry

Dividend pay-out by the group companies grew at a compounded annual rate of 15.7% under Cyrus, sharply up from 2.5% in the previous three years