How it offers a new model of bringing down promoter stake… Under the RBI regulations, the promoter groups of private banks are required to reduce their holdings in a phased way. This is to ensure much wider public participation in bank equity. Under the RBI guidelines, Mr. Uday Kotak was required to reduce his stake…
Have rate hikes been front-ended for 2018? The August monetary policy was not on the same plane as the June policy. Ahead of the June policy there was a virtual unanimity that the RBI would hike rate by 25 basis points. Inflation had gone up sharply and neither crude nor food inflation was giving any…
The company’s biggest challenge may be domestic… Source: Bloomberg Quint When Bharti Airtel announced its quarterly results for Q1, the highlight of the company’s results was the profits in its Africa operations. But, it perhaps hides a bigger story of problems for Bharti in the domestic business. Here are 3 immediate challenges. ARPUs have fallen…
The stage may be all set for a tough price war… When the two wheeler companies like Hero Moto and Bajaj announced their quarterly results, the real focus was never on the revenues or the profits. The focus was on whether we could see a hard price war in the two wheeler segment. Like it…
Relax, the market is not going down anytime soon… The global situation could not be more confusing for markets. There is a sharp bounce in crude prices as Saudi Arabia stopped shipments from the Bab-al-Mandeb strait in the Red Sea. That is likely to impact 4.8 million bpd of oil and take prices back to…
