New plant expected to boost company's revenues, margins
Further price cuts, higher advertising costs to weigh on margins
Excluding the strong US show led by Revlimid, Q2 was a mixed bag
Nomura Singapore on Tuesday divested 1.52 per cent stake in private sector lender CSB Bank for over Rs 61 crore through an open market transaction. According to bulk deal data available with the National Stock Exchange (NSE), Nomura Singapore offloaded 26,39,673 shares, amounting to 1.52 per cent stake in the company. The shares were disposed off at an average price of Rs 232.3 apiece, taking the transaction value to Rs 61.31 crore. Meanwhile, Maybank Securities Pte bought the shares at the same price. On Tuesday, shares of CSB Bank closed 2.42 per cent lower at Rs 228.20 apiece on NSE.
A sustained recovery in Asian markets, Nomura said, will largely depend on how the Covid situation and the ensuing curbs put in place to combat the pandemic in China plays out going ahead
He says that the market valuation premium over emerging market (EM) peers is around 70% versus the long-term average of nearly 40%
Japanese brokerage Nomura has projected a sharp moderation in India's growth rate for FY24 to 5.2 per cent as compared to FY23, saying Indian policymakers are misplaced about their optimism on the country's growth prospects. After a week-long meetings with policymakers, corporates, commercial banks and political experts, its economists said its FY23 GDP growth estimate is at 7 per cent at par with the RBI's revised down forecast but it expects a "sharp moderation" to 5.2 per cent in FY24. While we broadly agree with our interlocutors on the growth prospects in FY23, we believe the optimism in FY24 may be misplaced and that the spillover effects from the global slowdown are being underestimated, its economists Sonal Verma and Aurodeep Nandi said in a note. The RBI has hiked repo rate by 190 basis points since May to tame inflation and is expected to do more, especially amid faster rate tightening by the US Fed, which is bound to impact growth. The economy grew at 4 per cent in FY2
Research house Nomura expects CAD as a share of the gross domestic product to triple this fiscal year, saying that a global economic slowdown will further skew the country's trade imbalances
The Adani conglomerate has committed to invest a total of $70 billion by 2030 across its green energy value chain to become the world's largest renewable energy producer.
In the past six months, the stock price of BLS International soared 150 per cent, as against 5 per cent gain in the benchmark index.
Goldman Sachs lowered its projection for China's gross domestic product growth to 3% from 3.3%, citing weaker-than-expected July economic data as well as near-term energy constraints
Asia's export boom is showing signs of slipping into a deeper than expected downturn, HSBC Holdings Plc. and Nomura Holdings Inc. both warned in research notes
Decision comes after requests from foreign players; scope of existing licence was restrictive, say primary dealers
However, if monsoon progress in August and is geographically more even, Nomura believes Kharif sowing could still pick up going ahead, which in turn could keep food prices and inflation under check.
However, for the markets to achieve this ambitious target, a number of variables at the fundamental level first need to fall into place to complete the jigsaw puzzle
The Centre's reversal on windfall taxes within 18 days of announcing the moves led a Japanese brokerage to flag its impact on fiscal math.
Despite the government's recent fiscal steps to counter inflation, Nomura believes, there are upside risks to inflation from the continued pass-through of higher input costs
Global financial services firm Nomura Singapore on Monday purchased 12.5 lakh shares of technology services provider BLS International Services Ltd for Rs 27 crore through an open market transaction. According to bulk deal data available with the National Stock Exchange (NSE), Nomura Singapore Ltd bought 12,50,000 shares of the company at an average price of Rs 214 apiece, aggregating to Rs 26.75 crore. Shares of BLS International Services closed 1.25 per cent higher at Rs 211 on NSE.
According to Bloomberg's data on analysts' estimates, net profits of the 12 listed banks in Q1FY23 will grow 47 per cent YoY and shrink 7.8 per cent sequentially
The brokerage expects the euro zone, the UK, Japan, South Korea, Australia and Canada to fall into recession along with the US