Reports indicate that Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) are investing more in equities than in debt. Some analysts opine that FIIs are more comfortable with equities because there are no restrictions there. Moreover, arbitrage opportunities in debt may have reduced, they opine. Bankers said the overall cost for an FII to invest in Indi
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FIIs invest more in equities than bonds
Reports indicate that Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) are investing more in equities than in debt. Some analysts opine that FIIs are more comfortable with equities because there are no restrictions there. Moreover, arbitrage opportunities in debt may have reduced, they opine. Bankers said the overall cost for an FII to invest in Indi
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High interest outgo raises loss of GMR Infra
Huge interest outgo crimped the bottomline of infrastructure developer GMR Infrastructure, which posted a net loss of Rs 217 crore during Oct-Dec 2012. The company's interest outgo during the period is said to have risen 24 per cent to a total of Rs 525 crore, reports suggest. It is sitting on a consolidated debt
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Minister suggests lenders to offload loans to IDF
Banks must hand over their loan for infrastructure projects to Infrastructure Debt Funds (IDFs) once the projects are completed so that banks can get funds to lend to fresh projects. Finance Minister P Chidambaram suggested this to banks recently. IDF provides long term finance through the lif
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Mundra Port may witness cargo volume growth
Analysts feel that Mundra Port, which is operated by Adani Port and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ), may continue to witness growth in cargo volumes owing to better connectivity to power projects on the west coast. According to one research report, capacity constraints at India's major ports have led to a flat gro
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Number of bank loan recast falls in December quarter
The number of cases admitted to the corporate debt restructuring (CDR) cell by banks declined to 24 cases worth Rs 19,650 crore during October-December 2012 compared to 41 cases worth Rs 20,528 crore in the preceding quarter. Industry insiders attribute the decline in CDR cases to the improving economic outlook. With inflation sho
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Essar Oil set to replace rupee loan with dollar ones
Reports suggest that Essar Oil plans to raise dollar loans in order to repay some of its rupee loans in order to benefit from the interest differential between these two loans. According to media reports, the company plans to swap rupee loans worth $2.2 billion or Rs 11,700 crore with dollar loans
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Essar Oil set to replace rupee loan with dollar ones
Reports suggest that Essar Oil plans to raise dollar loans in order to repay some of its rupee loans in order to benefit from the interest differential between these two loans. According to media reports, the company plans to swap rupee loans worth $2.2 billion or Rs 11,700 crore with dollar loans
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ADB holds parleys with banks on IDF
Hun Kim, Country Director of Asian Development Bank (ADB) informed that the multilateral lending institution is discussing with several banks on participating in the infrastructure debt fund (IDF) floated by them. It is learnt that ADB plans to participate in the IDF floated by domestic banks through the NBFC route. The current regulatory framework allows IDFs to be floated eith
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SKS completes Rs 411 cr worth securitisation deal
So far in 2012-13, SKS Microfinance clinched five securitisation deals aggregating to Rs 411 crore with banks. The fifth one was a Rs 52.62 crore securitization deal that the bank entered into recently with a private sector bank and which is rated A1 {SO). Meanwhile, it may be noted that the company announced a net profit of Rs 1.2 crore during October-December 2012, after suffering losses in seven consecutive qua