The valuation of a stock needs to be seen in the context of its financial performance and the future prospects of the company and one needs to do a fundamental analysis of the company to ascertain whether or not the valuation is justified.

The use of digital transactions is on the rise, be it in the form of internet banking, debit card payments, NEFT, RTGS or UPI. These payment modes can be used by investors to invest in various financial products. Let us look at some of the features of these payment modes.

State Bank of India, the country’s largest lender, hiked its MCLR (marginal cost of lending rate) by 10 bps on Friday (June 1). Earlier, Punjab National Bank had revised its MCLR. The private sector banks and financial institutions, including ICICI Bank, HDFC and Kotak Mahindra Bank, followed suit by hiking their lending rates.

The Trump administration is acting like a rampaging bull in a China (no pun intended) shop. There are no better words to describe its plan to impose tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminium imported from Canada, Mexico and the European Union under the pretext of ‘national security’. 

Best sectoral fund performance in last one month and three months. 

Om Metals Infraprojects, in a joint venture (JV) with Patel Engineering, has bagged a contract worth around Rs 92 crore from Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO), on the upstream of power house pertaining to phase 1 of Kundah pump storage hydroelectric project (1x125 MW) in Nilgiri district. 

The market regulator SEBI has taken one more step to develop the bond market. It has suggested uniform procedure to determine pricing of thinly and non-traded, traded non-convertible debt securities

In the current global scenario, where global trade is under dark clouds of protectionism and trade war, India’s performance amongst all these headwinds is satisfactory.

HCL Technologies has announced its collaboration with JDA Commerce Inc. The company will join forces with JDA Commerce for developing product support and go-to-market (GTM initiatives) for JDA’s Commerce, SofTechnics, and Pricing and Revenue Management Solutions.

May auto sales indicate that the consumer appetite in the country is back on track after facing twin shocks of demonetization and GST implementation in FY18.