State Bank of India (SBI), the country's largest lender by assets, on Wednesday cut its benchmark lending rates by 15 basis points across all tenors, shortly after the central bank slashed interest rates by a larger-than-expected 35 bps to boost the economy.

SBI's one-year marginal cost of fund-based lending rate, or the MCLR, will come down to 8.25% per annum from 8.40% earlier with effect from Aug. 10, SBI said in a statement.

Mumbai: Domestic equity benchmarks BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty started on a cautious note on Wednesday ahead of the outcome of Reserve Bank of India's policy outcome.

The 30-share index was trading 18.58 points or 0.05 per cent up at 36,995.43; while the broader Nifty slipped 8.55 points or 0.07 per cent to 10,943.05 in morning trade.

New Delhi: Leaders cutting across party lines expressed shock at the sudden demise of former external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi describing her as a remarkable leader who devoted her life to public service and the poor.

The government is looking to speed up strategically important hydropower projects in Jammu and Kashmir following the proposed reorganization of the terror-hit state.

Hopes have risen against the backdrop of stepped up efforts to develop the infrastructure architecture in the state that has been hit by an unprecedented cycle of violence in recent years.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday stepped up his accusations against Google, claiming without offering evidence that the technology company worked to subvert his 2016 presidential campaign and warning he was watching it “very closely” ahead of the 2020 election. Trump, in a series of early posts on Twitter, also slammed Google’s Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai, and again raised questions about the search engine’s work with China, despite his administration’s earlier comments that any such work was limited.

One of India’s largest housing finance companies, PNB Housing Finance, has raised $75 million from Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), Singapore, in its second external commercial borrowing (ECB) in FY20.

The housing finance company (HFC) was able to raise funds at a cheaper rate as against the prevailing domestic market rates by nearly 60 basis points (bps) — at 8.4% — for a period of three years, a company executive said.

Q1 EBITDA margin at 9.4% was in line with our estimate (ahead of consensus by 60 bps), but revenue/PAT missed. Management remained non-committal on volume growth number for FY20 (earlier was expecting 10-12% industry growth) given the continued demand weakness.

While demand recovery remains crucial, it has initiated Rs 5-bn cost reduction program which should aid margin.

British Petroleum (BP) and Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) on Tuesday announced a new joint venture (JV) that will include a retail service station network and aviation fuels business across India.

The JV will incorporate and build on RIL's current fuel retailing network of over 1,400 sites across India, which the partners aim to grow rapidly to up to 5,500 sites over the next five years.

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman along with micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday met the representatives of the MSME sector as part of the second round of consultations with the stakeholders to address sector-specific issues in the economy.

Mumbai: Global rating agency Moody's, on Monday, kept Yes Bank's ratings under review for a downgrade, noting that the private sector lender has more than Rs 10,000 crore of loans under a watchlist and Rs 7,500 crore investment in bonds that have been downgraded.

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