Reliance Industries is trading higher by nearly 2% at Rs 973 on BSE in early morning deals after it reported a better-than-expected consolidated net profit at Rs 5,972 crore for the quarter ended September 2014 (Q2) on back of improved gross refining margins (GRMs) and lower input costs. The company had registered a profit of Rs 5,873 crore during the same quarter last fiscal.

However, consolidated net sales declined 4.3% to Rs 113,396 crore from Rs 118,439 crore for the corresponding quarter of previous fiscal.

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) beat analysts’ expectations during the July-September quarter, with its profit increasing 1.7 per cent over the year-ago period. Even as lower exports, a decline in crude oil prices and reduced refining and oil & gas volumes had a bearing on the company’s earnings during the quarter, higher profitability in the core refining & petrochemicals business helped. Good sales in the organised retail space also boosted the numbers for RIL.

On a consolidated basis, Reliance Industries’ turnover in the period stood at Rs 1,13,396 crore, a drop of 4.3 per cent from Rs 1,18,439 crore a year ago. At Rs 5,972 crore, however, its net profit was 1.7 per cent higher than Rs 5,873 crore in the same period last year. The value of its exports from India stood at Rs 66,065 crore, 14.7 per cent lower than Rs 77,428 crore in July-September 2013.

Falling crude oil prices will make it more difficult for Reliance Industries to get enough returns on its $7.4-billion investment in three US joint ventures, say analysts.

As already reported, RIL plans to sell 45 per cent stake in its joint venture for shale gas in the US with Pioneer Natural Resources.

India's Reliance Industries Ltd is seeking a buyer for its stake in the Eagle Ford Basin oil and natural gas joint venture with Pioneer Natural Resources, a sale that could raise up to $4.5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

Pioneer, which has about 230,000 acres in the Eagle Ford Basin according to its website, sold a 45% interest in the property to Reliance for $1.2 billion in 2010. The Eagle Ford Basin asset is a three-way joint venture between Mumbai, India-based Reliance; Irving, Texas-based Pioneer, and a division of Mexico's Alpha SAB de CV.

The Securities and Appellant Tribunal (SAT) on Friday admitted a plea by Reliance Industries (RIL) against a Rs 13 crore penalty imposed by capital market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi).

Sebi in August had passed an order against RIL for allegedly failing to disclose of a key financial metric to investors.

The private companies of Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani saw a slowdown in growth in fiscal 2014, courtesy a slowing economy and fall in gas production.

Of Ambani's three main private operating companies, Reliance Gas & Transportation, the gas pipeline company, widened its loss to a record high of Rs 3,400 crore in fiscal 2014 from Rs 900 crore loss in FY2013, as gas production from RIL's Krishna Godavari basin fell over the years.

Mumbai: The 30-share bellwether BSE Sensex was trading marginally down ahead of Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) bi-monthly policy due later on Tuesday.

RBI will release its monetary policy at 11am. RBI to maintain repurchase rate at 8% to shield the rupee from potential increases in US borrowing costs and sustain a fight against inflation, all 51 analysts in a Bloomberg survey predict. The government will also announce fiscal deficit data on Tuesday.

Global ratings agency Standard & Poor’s on Friday upped its outlook for Reliance Industries (RIL), Oil & Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and seven other Indian firms from negative to stable following similar action on India’s sovereign credit rating.

The rating agency — which revised its outlook on India from negative to stable — has revised the outlook for Reliance Industries to stable from negative while affirming the company's rating as BBB+, two notches higher than India's sovereign rating of BBB-.

The recent 1,000 point correction in the S&P BSE Sensex from its record high has seen 109 stocks from BSE-500 index hit their respective three-month low level.

Reliance Industries, Hindalco Industries, Tata Steel, Larsen and Toubro, BHEL, DLF, Tata Power Company, Reliance Infrastructure, Cairn India and Reliance Capital are among few notable shares touched three-month low on BSE during the current week.

For the first time, the 100 richest tycoons in India are all billionaires, with Mukesh Ambani topping the league, according to Forbes.

With a net worth of $23.6 billion, up $2.6 billion from past year, Reliance Industries chief Mukesh Ambani topped the list for an eighth consecutive year. Ambani was followed by Dilip Shanghvi, founder of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, who got richer by $4.1 billion this year. Shanghvi is at number 2, after he displaced steel baron Lakshmi Mittal ($15.8 billion), who slipped to fifth place.

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