Essar Oil plans to to replace its rupee borrowings with dollar borrowings in order to reduce interest cost and extend the maturity period of its debt. The reduction in interest cost is expected to boost returns from the refinery business of the firm. The company increased borrowing to finance its refinery expansion project, which was completed in March 2012. It raised its refinery capacity to 20 million tonne per annum and complexity to
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Govt to announce more economic reforms to revive growth
Union Finance Minister informed that the government would unleash more economic reforms in the coming days and weeks in order to rev up the investor sentiment and spur growth momentum. The government is expected to expedite implementation of around 40 projects out of the 250 private sector projects that can quickly take off the ground and, thereby, boost economic growth, reports indicate
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PSU banks may benefit from falling yield on govt bonds
During April-June 2013, public sector banks may earn Rs 5,000 crore to Rs 7,000 crore owing to treasury gains as yield on government securities have declined by 60 basis points during April and May this year. This estimate on the treasury gains of state-run banks was given by Icra in a recent research report. The report noted that yield of government securities has fallen in the last two months and this will improve earnings of public
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Banks asked to provide credit to power starved firms
Commercial banks received a direction from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to provide credit to companies in Andhra Pradesh which are suffering from paucity of power. Earlier, the Visakhapatnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry discussed the problems being faced by the business in the state owing to non-availability and shortage of power with the Union Ministry of Commerce and I
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Govt to take steps to support foreign investment
Raghuram G Rajan, Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance assured that the government will continue to implement measures to ease foreign investor portfolio inflows and some will be done very shortly. He also said that the government continues to undertake measures to ensure the current account deficit (CAD) is safely financed. In the coming weeks, the government will be recommending the policies to enha
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PEs deploy largest amount in 5 yrs in May
During May 2013, private equity funds announced 30 deals totaling to $ 2.1 billion, making it the highest monthly total since January 2008, Ernst & Young said in a report. A large part of the investment came from Qatar Foundation Endowment, which committed $ 1.26 billion investment in telecom major Bharti Airtel. This is the seco
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Minister asks banks to reduce lending rates
Finance minister P Chidambaram wants commercial banks to reduce lending rates in response to the easing monetary policy stance of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). While the RBI reduced the policy repo rate three times this year since January, banks have not passed on the rate cut to customers in terms of lowering interest rates on lending
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Ministry official suggests oversight mechanism for CDR
Commercial banks received a suggestion from Financial Services Secretary Rajiv Takru to have an independent oversight mechanism for considering cases under the corporate debt restructuring (CDR) cell. Takru suggested that the independent mechanism must not have any government representative or any serving banker, but some experts who can scrutinise from the correctness point of view whether the case refer
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GMR confident of servicing debt
Media reports indicate that GMR Infrastructure does not face problem on servicing its debt as the firm feels most of the debt has been ring-fenced over the cash flow of specific projects. In 2012-13, the company paid Rs 608 crore as interest charges, higher than 31 per cent from the previous year. As of end-2013, the firm had a net debt of Rs 33,700 crore, up 15 per cent from the previous finan
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Maharashtra govt frames new PPP policy
The urban development department of the Maharashtra government framed a new policy in order to address issues, such as settling of claims and risk-sharing, arising out of delays in PPP (public private partnership) projects projects. The draft policy has been forwarded to the finance department for modifications. The policy was framed in order to rule out the possibility of disputes at a later stag