8-May-09 News Headlines

Corporate News Headline
•JSW Steel reported Q4'09 results, total income declined 13.4% yoy to Rs. 37.19 bn, and it posted net loss to Rs. 399.3 mn. (BS)
•Reliance Infrastructure is planning to invest about Rs. 16.5 bn in various projects by the end of 2009-10. (BS)
•Tata Steel has recorded a 39% increase in the sales of long products, used by the construction industry, in the month of April at Jamshedpur Works, over the same period last year. (BS)

Economic and Political Headline

•QIPs, rights issues, and non-convertible debentures are back in vogue. At least 30 companies have drawn up plans to raise close to Rs. 500 bn through these routes to fund their working capital needs over the next six months. (BS)
•The Federal Reserve determined that 10 US banks need to raise a total of USD 74.6 bn in capital, concluding its unprecedented probe of the health of the nation's 19 largest lenders. (Bloomberg)
•The European Central Bank President Jean- Claude Trichet said the ECB unanimously agreed on a USD 80.5 bn plan to buy bonds as officials step up their response to the worst recession since World War II. (Bloomberg)
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