Country's biggest cigarette maker ITC Ltd reported almost 6% rise in net profit at Rs 2,640 cr for the September quarter as against Rs 2,500 crore in year-ago period, helped by lower costs.

Total income during the quarter under review was Rs 10,258.13 crore as against Rs 14,091.96 crore in the year-ago period.

Private lender ICICI Bank saw a 34 per cent year-on-year decline in net profit for the September quarter but saw slight improvement in asset quality sequentially.

Standalone net profit was Rs 2,058 crore for the quarter ended September 2017 as against Rs 3,102 crore in the year ago period.

BENGALURU: Infosys has standardised its severance pay for top executives. For senior vice- presidents (SVPs) and executive vice-presidents (EVPs), it will be four months of their fixed salary. Severance pay had become a major bone of contention within the company over the past two years when seemingly arbitrary amounts were paid to former CFO Rajiv Bansal and former general counsel David Kennedy . Bansal was granted Rs 17 crore, while Kennedy , who was in the company for just two years, received $868,250 (about Rs 5.9 crore when he quit in January).

NEW DELHI: Equity investors continued with their strong run as Sensex and Nifty extended their gains in Friday's early trade.

30-share BSE Sensex opened with a jump of 81.19 points on 33,228.32 while the broader 50-share NSE Nifty started trading on 10,362.30, up by 18.50 points.

Bengaluru: Amazon India chief Amit Agarwal said on Thursday that the online retailer plans to double down on its investments in India, especially in key areas such as digital payments and the Prime membership programme.

Agarwal also reiterated the e-commerce firm’s earlier claim that it was the largest online retailer in India and dismissed research reports that the company had lagged arch-rival Flipkart during the Diwali season sale.

L&T Finance Holdings on Thursday reported a 45.22% rise in its second quarter consolidated net profit at Rs 360.24 crore compared to the same period last year.This growth has been achieved after taking accelerated credit cost of Rs 277 crore in order to further strengthen the portfolio, the company said in a statement. Income from operations rose 14.19% on a year-on-year basis in the second quarter to Rs 2,383.82 crore. Total income rose by 16.49% to Rs 2,494.72 crore.The Average Assets under Management (AAUM) in the Investment Management business increased by 61% to Rs 52,749 crore.

HYDERABAD: Airport developer and operator GMR, and its equity partner Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad, are looking at setting up investment funds for their next phase of global expansion.

While the size of Malaysia Airports' investment fund would be around $1.5 billion, GMR is yet to announce the size of its fund.

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) will come out with its recommendations on guidelines for data privacy, security and ownership by January and is close to finalising suggestions for the Net Neutrality aspect. The recommendations on next round of spectrum auction will also be out before March 2018.

“Currently, there is a huge amount of monopoly and that monopoly is becoming bigger and bigger. We are saying you can use my data because we are using your application, but give us too so that we can use it for other purposes too... This should be finalised by December-January,” Trai chairman R S Sharma said.

YES Bank dipped 10% to Rs 299 on the BSE in early morning trade after the private sector lender saw significant weakening of its asset quality in September 2017 quarter (Q2FY18).

The bank’s gross non-performing assets (GNPA) ratio rose to 1.82% in Q2FY18 from 0.97% in June quarter (Q1FY18), while Net NPA rose to 1.04% from 0.39% in previous quarter. It saw a rise in NPAs by Rs 6,355 crore as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) asked it to restate bad loan figures for FY17.

Global ratings agency Moody's on Thursday said private lender Axis Bank's asset quality may deteriorate further and more than what was previously expected over the next 12-18 months.

In addition, compared to the other rated Indian banks, the bank has been a laggard in recognising its asset quality problems, a credit negative for its credit quality, Moody's said in its statement.

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