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Stock Talk: Top 5 paint companies stocks on market today
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India is the hub of top-quality paints, and the leading paint companies are based in this country. Some of the brands originate from western countries; they manufacture Indian style paint for the population.
Dr Reddy's announces commercial launch of 2-DG
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2-DG manufactured by Dr. Reddy's has a purity of 99.5% and is being sold commercially under the brand name 2DG, the Hyderabad-based pharma major said. The maximum retail price (MRP) of each sachet has been fixed at Rs. 990,with a subsidized rate offered to government institutions. Enquiries for 2DGTMcan be sent to [email protected].
FM announces Rs 1.1 L cr loan guarantee scheme for Covid affected sectors
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The scheme would include Rs 50,000 crore loan to the health sector aimed at scaling medical infrastructure targeting underserved areas. The scheme would entail guarantee cover for expansion and new projects related to health and medical infrastructure in cities other than eight metropolitan cities. For aspirational districts, the guarantee cover would be 75 per cent for both new projects and expansion.
In major Covid relief, Centre's monetary support for several sectors
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Accordingly, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced these measures here. The schemes entail enhancement of existing relief measure such as ECGLS and support for state governments. Besides, a total four new measures were announced to provide loans to micro finance credit users as well as tourism industry.
Robust earnings growth seen in mid, small-cap space over FY21-23
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"Given the significant loss pools in the small and midcap indices, earnings growth expectations over FY21 -23 are steep and not comparable to the NIFTY50 growth," said an ICICI Securities report. However, removing the loss to profit companies the growth expectations of mid and small caps appear stronger than Nifty50 especially in FY23, it added.
GoM may consider privatisation of IOB, Central Bank this year
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Sources said that the high level panel of secretaries met in the middle of last week to thrash out the regulatory and administrative issues concerning the PSU bank privatisation and have identified banks that would be put up disinvestment. The panel will now send the names of the shortlisted PSU banks to the group of ministers on disinvestment or Alternative Mechanism (AM) for approval.
slice raises $20mn to challenge credit card industry in India
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slice has raised this amount from existing investors Gunosy, Blume Ventures among others. "The banking industry in India has always viewed credit cards as a loan product rather than a high frequency payment instrument. Therefore, banks' main focus is to optimise the fees related to credit cards and there are portfolio teams to increase the loan book," Rajan Bajaj, Founder & CEO, slice, said in a statement.
UK watchdog bans cryptocurrency exchange Binance
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The watchdog didn't say just why it blocked Binance but noted that an "imposition of requirements" kept Binance from operating. Binance has until June 30 to confirm that it's honoring the FCA's demands, citing Financial Times, Engadget reported.
Fuel price rise paused on Monday after rising for 2 days
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Accordingly, the price of petrol remains at Rs 98.46 a litre and diesel at Rs 88.90 a litre in the national capital. Similarly, the price of the fuel in the other key metros also held Sunday's price line but not before reaching new historic high levels. Petrol is most expensive in Rajasthan's Sri Ganganagar where it now retailing at Rs 109.67 per litre. Even diesel in the city is priced at a high of Rs 102.12 a litre.
Sensex reverses gains after touching fresh high
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The Nifty50 on the National Stock Exchange also hit a fresh all-time high of 15,915.65 points. Healthy buying was witnessed in metal stocks while IT stocks slumped. Around 10.25 a.m., Nifty was trading at 15,858.00, lower by just 2.35 points or 0.01 per cent from its previous close.
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