The preceding week ended on a positive note for equity benchmarks. On Friday, the BSE Sensex surged 0.96 per cent to close at 79,802.79, while Nifty also gained 0.91 per cent to settle at 24,131.10
In the previous session, the Sensex fell 0.54 per cent to close at 77,156.80, while the Nifty declined 0.72 per cent to settle at 23,349.90
Index has been above the 50-level separating growth from contraction for 39 consecutive months
The HSBC final India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index, compiled by S&P Global, fell for a second month in August, dropping to 57.5 from July's 58.1
Pace of expansion remains sharp and indicates strong demand and favourable market conditions, HSBC survey
However, international sales expanded at the fastest pace in over 13 years, while job creation remained robust, and selling prices saw the steepest increase since October 2013
Investors are a lot less dovish on the Fed, seeing little prospect of a move until September and even that is far from a done deal
Robust demand was supported by new business in the services industry, which grew at the fastest pace since January, as well as rising manufacturing output and new orders
Last month the Bank of England estimated the economy grew just 0.1% in the first quarter and would do only slightly better in the second
The reading has been consistently above the 50-mark separating expansion from contraction since August 2021
The manufacturing PMI has remained above the 50-mark for more than 30 consecutive months
The latest PMI figure comes a day after the National Statistical Office (NSO) data showed that India's GDP grew by 8.4 per cent in the October-December quarter
India's HSBC India Manufacturing PMI came in at 56.9 in February, the fastest since October last year when it was 55.5
A recent uptick in a global index of manufacturing - to the highest level since mid-2022 - has spurred expectations the sector has reached a turning point
January figure marks 30 months of the index remaining above the 50-mark since July 2021. A reading above 50 in the survey indicates expansion of the sector and a figure below that suggests contraction
Inflationary pressures retreated, with purchase costs rising at the weakest pace since the current sequence of increases began in August 2020
Hi-Tech Pipes has reported around an 80 per cent rise in its net profit to Rs 8.02 crore during the quarter ended June 30, mainly due to higher revenues. It had clocked Rs 4.48 crore net profit during the April-June period of the preceding 2022-23 fiscal, the company said in a statement on Monday. The company's revenue from operations also rose 24 per cent to Rs 642.17 crore in Q1 FY24 from Rs 516.17 crore in the year-ago quarter. Its total sales volumes increased to 84.5 thousand tonnes over 70 thousand tonnes in Q1FY23. "The company has registered sales volume growth of 21 per cent. This volume growth has been majorly contributed by increased sales of value-added products like GP coils, colour-coated coils and sheets. The company is well positioned in this market segment," Ajay Kumar Bansal, Chairman and Managing Director, Hi-Tech Pipes, said. On business updates, he said the greenfield facility of large diameter pipes at Makhiyav, Sanand in Gujarat, is expected to start commerc
Meanwhile, growth in new export business picked up to the fastest since last November
Demand conditions demonstrated remarkable strength, with factory orders rising at the fastest pace since January 2021
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