The PAT for the quarter came in at Rs. 43.44 crore, yoy increase of 6.3 per cent.

India Cements posted poor results for the quarter with subdued top-line and bottom-line. The margins for the quarter also declined by a per cent.

Suditi Industries posted mixed numbers on Q3FY18 as the company showed growth over the previous year corresponding quarter and declined over previous quarter.

The company's standalone revenue for the quarter came in at Rs 163.23 crore, registering a decline of 21.4 per cent YoY. This was primarily due to the decline in sales of the sugar segment by 24.2 per cent YoY.

This week saw the second consecutive week of downbeat for the IT stocks, where Nifty IT tumbled nearly 9 per cent from its all-time high. The prices fell up to 38.2 per cent retracement of the prior upward rally.

Aster DM Healthcare is coming out with an IPO which will remain open from February 12-15, 2018. The issue consists of fresh issue of Rs 725 crore and offer for sale (OFS) of 1,34,28,251 equity shares, thereby aggregating the issue size to Rs 980 crore.

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The company's standalone revenue for the quarter came in at Rs. 304.74 crore, registering 10.2 per cent yoy increase. This was on account of jump in sales from domestic formulations by 13.75 per cent, contrast media by 11.23 per cent, rest of the world exports by 7.16 per cent and Russia exports by 5.22 per cent.

Salzer Electronics reported standalone revenue for the quarter at Rs. 110.69 crore, registering 10.5 per cent yoy increase.

Indian sugar stocks were buzzing from the start of the week after the Union Government doubled import tax on sugar. The import duty on sugar was hiked to 100 per centon February 6. The stocks have duly broken their 5-10 days consolidation.