Morning Business News Round up_Mar 17, 2016

Morning Business News :

  • Fed holds rates steady
  • Sector funds beat diversified peers in 10-year SIP returns
  • Blackstone leads the race to acquire Mphasis
  • Emerging debt swelled $1.6 tn in 2015, poses risks
  • Offshore funds can take advance ruling from CBDT
  • Natural rubber imports drop 11.7% y/y in February: Board
  • Trade body cuts cotton output estimate to 34.5 mn bales
  • LSE and Deutsche Börse seal $30-bn trading tie-up
  • Tata Group defense business expected to have 7.5% growth
  • Gas-based power plants forego subsidy in reverse auction
  • Safeguard duty on hot-rolled steel imports extended until March 2018
  • Ruia-owned Essar Steel to double EBITDA in FY17
  • US inflation pushing higher; housing market firming
  • Finance ministry body recommends steel import duties
  • ‘India has to open up economy, free currency’
  • SEBI asks mfs to consolidate similar schemes for ease of investors
  • SAARC Business Travelers’ Card expected by May
  • Tata Motors bags hybrid buses order from MMRDA
  • Auto loan delinquency rate to improve in 2016, says Moody’s
  • Move for regulatory body to oversee export standards
  • Rosneft sells stakes in two Siberian oil fields to Indian firms

  • Lok Sabha passes Aadhar Bill rejecting Rajya Sabha recommendations
  • Vijay Mallya’s overseas assets come under ED, CBI scanner
  • Bofa sees Raghuram Rajan pouring in funds as India’s cash crunch worsens
  • Reliance Infra-backed discoms say under ‘huge financial stress’
  • Banks see a plunge in advance tax payments as npas bite
  • Sensex ends 131 points up in last hour rally, Nifty  at 7,499
  • Petrol turns dearer by Rs 3.07 a litre, diesel up Rs 1.90
  • Mini Cooper Convertible priced at Rs 34.9 lakh in India – Launched
  • Investments via P-Notes declined in last decade
  • Visa Steel to turn NPA in banks’ books
  • CAD may narrow to 0.7% of GDP in FY16
  • Gamesa bags 20-mw solar power order in Sri Lanka
  • Psus to get 16 coal mines for commercial mining
  • Nepal, China to sign trade treaty, fuel agreement
  • Real estate bill to safeguard rights of home buyers
  • New CBDT rules to boost fund mgmt sector in India

Today’s Wealth Mantra !

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
― Benjamin Franklin

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