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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Switzerland has suspended the Most-Favoured-Nation (MFN) clause in its Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) with India, significantly altering the tax treatment of cross-border dividends. Beginning 1 January 2025, dividend payments from Swiss entities to Indian investors will be taxed at 10%, double the current 5%.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The investment relationship between India and Switzerland has taken a blow, with the latter having withdrawn the most favoured nation (MFN) status it granted India as part of a double taxation avoidance agreement.

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Mie Takahashi is one of a small group of female toji, or master Japanese sake brewers

Double Tax Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) with India effective January 1, 2025, in a move that may raise the tax outgo on dividend income for Indian entities operating in the European country. The decision follows India’s Supreme Court ruling in October 2023 in a case involving Swiss multinational Nestle SA. The court had held that the MFN clause under the DTAA does not get automatically triggered until notified under the Income Tax Act, 1961. “On the basis of the Indian Supreme Court ruling, the Swiss competent authority acknowledges that its interpretation of para 5 of the Protocol to the IN-CH DTA is not shared by the Indian side,” said a recent statement issued by the Swiss authorities. “In the absence of reciprocity, it therefore waives its unilateral application with effect from 1 January 2025.”

Hemang Jani, Independent Market Expert, says most of the healthcare companies have been doing a fairly decent job and some of these companies are in an expansion phase. Max Healthcare is looking to expand in a big way, and that is true for Narayana Hrudalaya also. For the investors looking for a steady 15-18% kind of a CAGR growth, having some exposure to names like Apollo Hospitals, Max, or Narayana Hrudalya would make sense. How have you assessed the quarterly numbers from the entire FMCG basket? Do you think that the slowdown is worrying and it is going to continue into the coming quarters? Or was it a bit of a one-off? Hemang Jani: Consumer companies, particularly the staple and FMCG companies are going through a great amount of slowdown and when you look at the quarterly numbers by and large things were not that positive. The only thing is that the market reaction to some of those numbers was a bit of a surprise because it is not as if HUL or Nestle will report a very high single digit kind of volume growth.

The NSE Nifty index ended the session 58.8 points down at 24619.0, while BSE Sensex 200.66 points to 81508.46.

Benchmark NSE Nifty closed 58.8 points down at 24619.0 amid selling in frontline bluechip counters.

The NSE Nifty index closed 58.8 points down at 24619.0, while BSE Sensex ended 200.66 points at 81508.46.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When it comes to investing for the long term, identifying stocks that consistently deliver a high return on equity (ROE) and return on capital employed (ROCE) can be a powerful strategy. ROE and ROCE are key financial metrics that measure a company's ability to generate profits from its capital, helping investors assess how efficiently a company is using its resources to grow.

Honasa Consumer Ltd.(up 4.70%), Nakoda Group Of Industries Ltd.(up 2.80%), Tata Consumer Products Ltd.(up 1.73%), Hindustan Unilever Ltd.(up 1.51%), Sheetal Cool Products Ltd.(up 1.24%), Emami Ltd.(up 1.19%), Euro India Fresh Foods Ltd.(up 0.97%), Zydus Wellness Ltd.(up 0.92%), Nestle India Ltd.(up 0.81%) and Patanjali Foods Ltd.(up 0.74%) were among the top gainers.

ProcMart, an online B2B e-commerce marketplace, is expanding into biofuels and sustainable packaging. Anish Popli, Founder and CEO of ProcMart, said that 90% of the company’s clients are Fortune 500 companies. “These clients put a lot of weightage on sustainability. Their procurement managers come to us looking for a sustainable supply chain. After discussions with them, we have realised we can help these large organisations in biofuels and packaging,” he said. Sustainable packaging is one way to reduce carbon emissions, and ProcMart can contribute to this as it is also into packing and shipping items. ProcMart, being a marketplace for commodities, has added biofuel in its products. It has started procuring biofuels for clients. Popli says more clients are asking for biofuels.

Power and Instrumentation(Gujarat)Ltd.(up 5.00%), Transformers & Rectifiers(India)Ltd.(up 5.00%), Indo Tech Transformers Ltd.(up 5.00%), Energy Development Company Ltd.(up 4.97%), Neueon Towers Ltd.(up 4.84%), GE Vernova T&D India Ltd.(up 4.78%), Suzlon Energy Ltd.(up 4.46%), GE Power India Ltd.(up 4.07%), KPI Green Energy Ltd.(up 3.43%) and Voltamp Transformers Ltd.(up 2.25%) stood among the top gainers.

IT stocks after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell indicated that strong U.S. economic growth would delay interest rate cuts. The BSE Sensex fell 241 points, or 0.31%, to close at 77,339, while the NSE Nifty slid 79 points, or 0.34%, to finish at 23,453.

The NSE Nifty index closed 26.35 points down at 23532.7, while BSE Sensex ended 110.64 points at 77580.31.

Zydus Wellness Ltd.(up 4.95%), Gopal Snacks Ltd.(up 4.43%), Tasty Bite Eatables Ltd.(up 4.30%), Bajaj Consumer Care Ltd.(up 3.08%), Adani Wilmar Ltd.(up 2.35%), Honasa Consumer Ltd.(up 2.01%), ADF Foods Ltd.(up 2.01%), Parag Milk Foods Ltd.(up 1.47%), Varun Beverages Ltd.(up 1.33%) and Hatsun Agro Products Ltd.(up 1.32%) stood among the top gainers.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Think of wine while in Europe, and France, Spain and Italy spring to mind. Switzerland is better known for its cheese and chocolates.

India's economy has been a shining star when it comes to growth. Even as IMF lowered expectations for the world, including China's, it bumped up India's. So, there's little debate about the direction of the economy.

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real estate developers Shriram Properties today zoomed 6.8% to their intraday high of Rs 111.4 on the BSE after signing a joint development agreement for a 6-acres prime land in Pune. “Shriram Properties Limited (“SPL”), one of the leading residential real estate developers in South India, has signed a Joint Development Agreement for a 6-acres prime land, nestled in the upcoming micro markets of Undri in Pune,” said the company in a filing to the exchanges.

Nestle, Colgate-Palmolive, Godrej Consumer Products, Maruti Suzuki, Volkswagen, Skoda and Tata Motors, have stepped up advertising and marketing spends in September quarter, and some of them said they will continue to increase spending through the December quarter to help revive demand. Toothpaste maker Colgate increased marketing and ad spending by 17.8% in the July-September period to ₹242 crore and expects the momentum to continue, while Godrej Consumer Products said in a post-earnings call that it will continue to incrementally increase ad spends as it did in the past quarter. Colgate in a management commentary said a step up in ad spends, which were nearly a percentage point higher from a year earlier, were on account of innovation in the quarter. Nestle India increased advertising and marketing investments in the September quarter. «We kept a relentless focus on investing behind our core brands, with advertising and marketing investments increasing this quarter,» Nestle India chairman Suresh Narayanan said in an earnings statement. Addressing reporters at Nestle's Samalakha factory last week, Narayanan said the company is «taking steps to address pockets of weakness and mitigate local competition with higher ad spends».