Several banks have sharply hiked interest rates on fixed deposits across the tenures after the Reserve Bank of India raised repo rate by 40 basis points in this month.

The government, on May 21, increased the duty on exports of iron ore to 50 percent from 30 percent and imposed 45 percent duty on pellets. It also imposed a 15 percent export duty on hot-rolled and cold-rolled steel products from nil earlier

Banks are even thinking about providing priority funding to power plants that are functional but some loans of the generating company have turned non-performing

Prior to the government’s new overseas investment rules, bankers learned some hard lessons in the corporate loan business

"We need to focus more on midcap and smallcap stocks. In the coming week, we are expecting profit-taking in financial stocks and outperformance in technology stocks," said Amol Athawale, Deputy Vice President - Technical Research, Kotak Securities.

If it’s the economy that drives corporate earnings which drive valuations, then a slowing economy should be bad news. But stocks are actually celebrating a slowdown in a sign of the times we live in

In contrast to the last bout of selling, the ongoing FII exodus is much milder. Even VIX is sub-20. The range for Nifty is much narrower too, as it swings between 17,000 and 18,000 

Small finance banks and smaller private banks top the FD interest rate charts on tax-saving deposits

Jio, Retail drive RIL's Q3 performance Private banks - strong Q3 report card IEX Q3 profit drops 40% YoY

Reliance Industries Q3 profit up 0.6% (excl exceptional item) Other stocks in focus are UltraTech Cement, IDFC First Bank, Indian Energy Exchange…

Interviews with nearly two dozen current and former employees, investors, vendors and contractors describe a disorganized company helmed by an inexperienced CEO with a history of outlandish claims and lofty promises that don’t always come to fruition.

The broader market also reflected this downward momentum, as both the BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices fell 0.4 percent.

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said that to provide more flexibility and avenues for urban co-operative banks (UCBs) to raise capital, the apex bank will issue a discussion paper soon.