Reliance Industries got a year’s extension for its SEZs in Haryana and Navi Mumbai. (BS)
Hindustan Unilever intends to dramatically increase its rural distribution reach. (BL)
Tata Steel said its subsidiary, Tata Steel Global Mineral Holdings, has raised its stake to 27.4% from 19.9% in Canada's iron ore explorer New Millennium Capital Corp. (FE)
Hindalco expects domestic demand to post a double-digit growth in the current financial year. (BS)
Hindalco Industries plans to borrow about Rs140bn in the next couple of years to build two new plants. (ET)
Tata Power plans to add 750MW during 2010-11. (BS)
Cairn India to commission its 590km heated crude oil pipeline, from its Barmer field near the Gujarat coast in early next month. (BS)
Tata Steel has bought an additional stake in Canadian mining firm New Millennium Capital for around Rs892mn raising its stake to 27.4%. (ET)
NTPC has readied a war chest of around Rs1,600bn for the next five years even as it closes in on a coal mine in Western Australia to source fuel for its power projects. (BL)
SpiceJet has applied afresh for permission to operate in the growing route of Colombo. (BS)
GSPC through its subsidiary GSPC Gas Company Limited has reached to around 1,50,000 PNG domestic customers as well as daily gas sale of 3 mmscmd in the Gujarat. (BL)
Reliance Industries may foray into nuclear energy after being freed from a non-compete agreement with the ADAG that barred it from investing in some businesses. (ET)
Fortis Healthcare may avoid a hurried response to counter Malaysian investment fund Khazanah’s bid to acquire management control over Parkway Holdings. (BS)
Tech Mahindra to focus more on the Middle East and African market, in talks with three-four African telecom companies for large contracts. (BS)
Reliance Communications has granted an in-principle approval to the sale of 26% stake in the company to strategic or PE investors; however, it did not name any buyer or give a timeframe for the proposed sale. (BL)
AT&T is in talks with Reliance Communications to buy a shade under 15% stake. (DNA)
FIIs were net sellers of Rs1.66bn in the cash segment on Wednesday on a provisional basis, according to the NSE data. The local institutions were net buyers at Rs1.65bn on the same day. In the F&O segment, the foreign funds were net buyers of Rs12.33bn. On Tuesday, FIIs were net sellers at Rs4.73bn in the cash segment, as per SEBI data. Mutual Funds were net sellers at Rs133mn on the same day.
NTPC is set to acquire controlling interest in a 720mn tone coal field in Australia in a deal valued at US$1-1.5bn, which will enable it to fire about 3,500MW of power capacity. (ET)
RIL revives plan to build a multi-billion-dollar chemical plant.(ET)
Sun Pharma rejects Guggenheim Partners’ US$215mn offer for Taro stake. (ET)
RIL’s hunt for more hydrocarbons on India's East coast could slow as the company's drilling programme in the region is facing delays due to ‘unresolved mechanical' issue in the rig hired from Transocean. (BL)
After 19 months of announcing a relocation of the Nano plant from Singur in West Bengal to Sanand in Gujarat, Tata Motors is set to roll out the world's cheapest car from its new abode. (BL)
Japanese auto major Nissan Motor Company today said it may partner with Hinduja Group flagship firm Ashok Leyland for launching a global compact car in India. (ET)
Macquarie-SBI was in advanced negotiations with GMR Infra to invest US$100mn in the latter’s airports division. (BS)
NTPC’s Kaniha power plant is presently reeling under a super critical condition, with coal stock of about 0.2mt which would last for only three days. (BS)
Singareni Collieries Company Limited, which is setting up a 600MW in Jaipur mandal of Adilabad district, would place orders for the power plant equipment from BHEL in July. (BS)
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.-Confucius As if the world and its worries were not enough, a freak trade in Reliance Industries took place which saw the index heavyweight plunge to Rs840.55 during the day. Later, there was a freak rumor too on a business channel with the name India Infoline, which unlike the trade got corrected immediately.
The bulls may find some relief this morning as the market gets off to a flat start. India’s exports increased by 36.2% to US$16.8bn in April, the sixth consecutive month of growth. Auto numbers have been very encouraging in May. Better-than-expected readings on the US economy failed to cheer the main US indices. The weakness was attributed to slower manufacturing growth in China besides reports that Israel's aircraft were targeted by Lebanese anti-aircraft guns. BP shares fell 15% as it battles with the worst oil spill in US history.
The euro, which has been at the receiving end flirted with fresh four-year lows of US$1.21. The yen weakened after Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said he would resign in eight months. The Bank of Canada raised rates and chances are New Zealand would do the same next week.