Analyst’s View

Stock markets may face volatility in a holiday-shortened week ahead amid monthly derivatives expiry, besides global factors and foreign fund trading activity would continue to dictate terms, analysts said. Factors such as movement of global oil benchmark Brent crude and the rupee would also guide the trend in equities. Markets would remain closed on Thursday for Ram Navami. "While volatility may increase locally before the March Futures and Options (F&O) expiry, the position of major international banks will continue to play a significant role in the direction of the market globally. "The market will also keep an eye on the geopolitical situation because there is still tension between Russia and Ukraine and there is also some tension developing between the US and Syria. But, the market is not paying much attention to this. Due to FIIs' aggressive selling in recent months, the institutional flow will also be crucial," said Santosh Meena, Head of Research, Swastika Investmart ...

Profit growth while sequentially strong, may fall nearly 10 per cent from a year ago, due to fuel export taxes

Analysts expect the Indian equity markets to consolidate over the next few months, as they fully digest the negatives of rich valuations, rising interest rates amid growth headwinds.

On the earnings front, big names like ITC, M&M, Dabur, Titan and Interglobe Aviation, along with several others, will declare quarterly results this week

Tata Steel has been closing and selling plants in the UK since the 2008 financial crisis to make its business there more profitable

The global market for ayurvedic medicines is an estimated $100 billion and this is to grow to $115 billion by 2020

In Piyush Goyal, aluminium makers have found a mines minister with a clear vision of where he wants to see India's largest non-ferrous metal industry in the next decade & beyond

The industry has outstanding bank loans of around Rs 3 lakh crore, making it one of the largest contributors to the country's NPAs

ITA spokesperson Azam Monem says the industry is being worn down by production costs rising at a faster pace than beverage prices

JSW Steel's plan to build a 10-mt mill in Odisha includes a 280-km slurry pipeline from mines at Barbil to transfer beneficiated iron ore to Paradip for making pellets

In February, New Delhi had brought 173 steel products under MIP with prices ranging from $341 to $752 a tonne for a period of six months

"If we play our cards well, we stand a good chance to export good volumes of steel for use in the about-to-be-launched infrastructure projects in Iran."

Naming directly Anglo-Australian mining groups Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton and Brazilian Vale for unsettling the Chinese ore market, chinese miners has urged Beijing to initiate an "anti-dumping investigation"

Concern over capacity surplus is finding growing resonance at all places, including Beijing, which is blamed for world steel crisis

Increasingly, big imports of stainless steel flat products, particularly from China, have left much of the domestic industry capacity idle

The current three-month LME price of zinc is up around 50% on the January level. But, it is still miles away from the lofty high of $4,580 a tonne in November 2006

What is galling about the vitriol against India is that the US and the European Union have been a lot more proactive in building tariff barriers against China's steel exports

India has deep historic relationship with many mineral resource rich African countries such as South Africa, Namibia, Zambia and Tanzania

Hindalco is the one which continues to make significant strides in converting the metal it smelts at its three smelters into value-added products

India's aluminium demand registered a growth of 10% in 2015 and this may further gain in momentum because of the push given to the Make in India campaign