Non-food credit in the banking system grew 10.6% year-onyear during the fortnight ended September 30, up from 9.3% in the previous fortnight, as loan demand improved with the advent of the festive season.

Non-food credit at the end of the fortnight under review stood at R74.35 lakh crore, according to data released by the Reserve Bank of India. Growth in deposits with banks also grew 11.3% y-o-y, against 9.9% in the previous fortnight, to R101.43 lakh crore – the first time total banking deposits crossed the R100 lakh crore mark.

After the recent correction in NTPC’s share price,we upgrade it to buy as valuation at 1SD below mean could rerate on the back of: a potential cut in interest rates; & initiation of two structural reforms –policy mandating shut down of inefficient and old power plants,and policy permitting optimisation of coal usage.

However, decline in interest rates could persuad the Central Electricity and Regulatory Commission to cut FY20- 24 regulated RoE, and thus, we build 100 bp cutin regulated RoE to 14.5%. Despite lowering our RoE estimates, we expect EPS growth of 20% in FY19E/20E, RoE of 12% by FY 20E led by 19 GW capacity addition in FY18-20.

Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani on Monday said his new telecom venture Jio is not a gamble but a well thought-out and well-engineered business, while terming the trouble with interconnectivity as similar to a meritorious student "getting ragged".

"It is no punt. It is a well thought-out, well executed, well engineered ecosystem. It is a Rs 2,50,000 crore investment," Ambani said at 'Off the Cuff' show organised by The Print, a digital media outfit owned by senior journalists Shekhar Gupta and Barkha Dutt.

An Air India plane carrying 128 passengers and crew members from Ahmedabad suffered a tyre burst while landing at the city airport this morning.

All passengers are safe and another aircraft has been arranged to ferry passengers to their onward journey, an Air India spokesperson in New Delhi said.

Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) was trading 1% lower at Rs 318 on BSE after the stock was traded ex-bonus on Tuesday in the ratio of 1:1.

The stock opened 1% higher at Rs 324, hit an intra-day high of Rs 325 so far. A combined 1.13 million shares changed hands on the counter on the BSE and NSE till 10:08 am.

There is something about an election that excites and disturbs businesses. Businesses are jittery about formulating a forward looking plan and their clients are less than willing to loosen their purse strings. Restrained optimism is a camouflage for hidden pessimism. And when a candidate vows to roll back policies formulated by his opponents when in government, the fears of businesses get further amplified. Two of India’s top IT companies – TCS and Infosys - seem to have been caught in such electoral crosswinds blowing in the US.

In a rare instance, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has appointed a three-member adjudicating bench after its initial probe found that certain brokers involved in the 2013 payments crisis at the National Spot Exchange Ltd (NSEL) had mis-sold NSEL products, three persons with direct knowledge of the matter said.

“The investigation concluded last month and the matter has been referred to the adjudication department for inquiry and penal proceedings under section 11 (B) of Sebi Act and broker regulations’ clause pertaining to ‘fit and proper’ criteria,” said the first person on condition of anonymity. Section 11B of the act refers to Sebi’s powers to act to protect interest of the market.

The clock is turning back at Hyundai Motor India Ltd with the local arm of the Korean carmaker offering its compact car models Eon and i10 at Rs2.72 lakh and Rs3.88 lakh respectively, or the price they commanded five years ago.

“The i10 and Eon have the lowest price in five years while the Grand i10 and Verna have the highest offers,” said Rakesh Srivastava, senior vice- president, sales and marketing at Hyundai India, adding that “Hyundai models are always high on consideration set of buyers.

Reliance Communications Ltd (RCom) has said it has signed a non-binding term sheet with Brookfield Infrastructure Group to sell its tower assets and related infrastructure. Brookfield, on its part, hasn’t issued a statement or even commented about the transaction, which implies the deal is still at a preliminary stage.

It’s hardly surprising that investors aren’t cheering RCom’s debt reduction endeavours yet. In the past month, the company has announced the merger of its wireless business with Aircel Ltd, and now the tower deal. Both put together will reduce debt by around 60% at RCom, according to company executives.

Caution took over investors as the market frittered away all the early gains as the benchmark Sensex started moving down, showing signs of heavy volatility.

Selling pressure distinctly came to the fore in telecom, auto, capital goods and technology sectors.

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