Advertisement
UK markets close in 4 hours 28 minutes

  • FTSE 100

    8,116.40
    +37.54 (+0.46%)
     

  • FTSE 250

    19,829.38
    +227.40 (+1.16%)
     

  • AIM

    755.53
    +2.41 (+0.32%)
     

  • GBP/EUR

    1.1663
    +0.0006 (+0.05%)
     

  • GBP/USD

    1.2513
    +0.0002 (+0.02%)
     

  • Bitcoin GBP

    51,228.88
    +519.98 (+1.03%)
     

  • CMC Crypto 200

    1,387.13
    -9.40 (-0.67%)
     

  • S&P 500

    5,048.42
    -23.21 (-0.46%)
     

  • DOW

    38,085.80
    -375.12 (-0.98%)
     

  • CRUDE OIL

    84.11
    +0.54 (+0.65%)
     

  • GOLD FUTURES

    2,360.00
    +17.50 (+0.75%)
     

  • NIKKEI 225

    37,934.76
    +306.28 (+0.81%)
     

  • HANG SENG

    17,651.15
    +366.61 (+2.12%)
     

  • DAX

    18,049.34
    +132.06 (+0.74%)
     

  • CAC 40

    8,039.45
    +22.80 (+0.28%)
     
PROPERTY:

9 luxury homes to consider if money is no object

Ever thought about what a multimillion pound budget would buy you?

Vedanta posts 47 percent rise in second-profit profit, but misses estimates

Reuters

REUTERS - Vedanta Ltd (VDAN.NS), the Indian unit of diversified mining group Vedanta Resources Plc (VED.L), posted a 47 percent rise in second-quarter profit, helped by improved commodity prices and higher zinc and copper production.

Profit rose to 20.91 billion rupees ($323.52 million) in the three months through Sept. 30, from 14.24 billion rupees a year earlier. http://bit.ly/2gXo6u2

Analysts on average expected a profit of 23.26 billion rupees, Thomson Reuters data showed.

Total income grew about 24 percent to 224.66 billion rupees, the company said on Thursday.

($1 = 64.6325 Indian rupees)

(Reporting by Krishna V Kurup in Bengaluru; Editing by Amrutha Gayathri)