Construction and Real estate
- Positive for construction companies
- Since government spending on infrastructure is the most important growth driver for construction ...
- Losing benefits
- The budget has brought both positive and negative news for the infrastructure and construction sector. ...
Consumer Durables
- Per capita penetration of white goods continues to remain dismal
- As we see it, India's per capita penetration of white goods continues to remain dismal ...
Engineering
- Boost to rural electrification
- We maintain our positive outlook on engineering companies post the budget announcements ...
Paints
- Companies will benefit in terms of lower custom duties
- The focus on urban and rural housing to increase demand for paint companies shall lead to ...
Power
- Nothing new in these announcements
- While the finance minister has talked of setting up of ultra mega power projects and greater ...
- A power-full budget
- The Power sector is one of the important sectors on which the government is largely focused ...
Software
- Companies will also have to pay FBT on ESOP
- The Indian IT services market has witnessed strong growth over the past few years ...
Telecom
- more or less neutral towards the telecom sector
- The budget has been more or less neutral towards the telecom sector ...
Auto
- Status quo on the customs duty
- With no significant proposals being made, we believe the long-term fundamentals of the auto ...
- Indirect beneficiary
- While there was not too much for the automobiles industry in the recent budget but the cut in peak custom duty ...
Aliminium
- likely to negatively impact Indian players
- The Indian aluminium sector is characterised by large integrated players like Hindalco and ...
FMCG
- Better infrastructure facilities will improve their supply chain
- With 12.2% of the world population living in the villages of India, the Indian rural FMCG ...
- A neutral care
- The market reacted extremely to the budget when it was announced ...
Financial Institutions
- HFCs are expected to witness higher credit growth
- The budget measures are expected to augur well for the housing finance companies and at the same ...
Fertilisers
- Efforts at improving the subsidy
- The fertiliser sector has a crucial impact on the country's food security. While phosphatic ...
- No major reaction
- Agriculture has been the theme of the budget and therefore naturally there must be proposals ...
Energy and petrochemicals
- Reduction in the custom duty
- Energy security is one of the priorities of the government. In order to accelerate hydrocarbon ...
Cement
- The impact of hike in excise duty will not be so prominent
- The Indian cement industry with a total capacity of about 157 m tonnes in FY06, the second largest ...
- May shift burden
- The rise in inflation has remained the main concern for the government. Cement has a weightage of 1.73 per cent ...
Banking
- No measures were taken for improving liquidity
- The budget had very little to offer for scheduled commercial banks, with the exception to the fact ...
- Indirect gains
- The Banking sector experienced a dream run in 2006 and even the 2006-07 Budget had some direct initiatives ...
Auto ancillaries
- Budget 2007-08: Auto ancillaries
- There has been a conscious effort by manufacturers to improve productivity of the suppliers in the past ...
Hotels
- The outlook for the sector looks positive
- The outlook for the sector looks positive. The Indian hotel industry witnessed strong average room ...
- More rooms for profit
- Hotel and Tourism is a sector which is currently enjoying the major benefit of demand supply mismatch ...
Media
- The budget had nothing much to offer
- The budget had nothing much to offer to the media and entertainment industry. Despite being one of the ...
Pharma
- The thrust on rural health programmes
- Our outlook on the pharma industry is positive from a long-term perspective. One of the reasons for ...
- Up to the expectations
- At last, the industry has a reason to cheer about. All pharma stocks have gone through beating ...
Shipping
- Removal of custom duty to benefit Indian dredging companies
- Rationalisation of taxes, which continues to be the most important issue for the shipping companies ...
Steel
- Duty on coking coal fully exempted
- Increased spending on infrastructure and governments initiatives on housing sector are the key ...
- Gaining lusture
- Steel is an essential commodity and is an important raw material for various industries ...
Textiles
- a positive for players in the garmenting side
- Identification of the textile sector as a priority one for ‘job creation’ by the government certainly ...
- TUF gets going
- Budget has delivered very good news for the textile industry, as most of the expectations ...
Tobacco
- India is the second largest producer of tobacco
- India is the second largest producer of tobacco. Out of the total tobacco produced in India, only ...
Sugar
- Ethanol and power are likely to be the growth drivers
- The sugar industry in India in the last six months has witnessed a massive change from being supply ...
Retail
- Rental woes
- This budget 2007-08', has not brought any major positive news for the retail sector ...
Information Technology
- Between the thorny MAT and the ESOPs
- They say that "Save the best for the last", but it seems the Finance Minister had saved the worst ...
Aviation
- Rough weather ahead
- The budget has come out with altogether different announcement for the aviation industry from what that was expected. ...
Oil & Gas
- Positive for downstream companies
- Given the fact that, the headline of inflation remains the biggest worry for the present UPA government ...
Agro Commodities
- Grow now
- Agro-commodities are the major components while calculating the Inflation. With rising inflation, it was obvious ...
Paper
- Paper on a roll
- The Finance Minister has given bigger importance to the promotion of education related programs ...
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