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Bharti Airtel

India’s leading mobile telecommunications company Bharti Airtel has come up with a set of decent quartely numbers beating market expectations. The company announced a growth of 46% for FY 2008.

Highlights for Full Year ended March 31, 2008

* Overall customer base crosses 6.4 crore.
* Highest ever-net addition of 2.5 crore customers in a year.
* Market leader with a market share of all India wireless subscribers at 23.8%(22.4% last year)
* Total Revenues of Rs. 27,025 crore (up 46% Y-o-Y)
* EBITDA of Rs. 11,372 crore (up 53% Y-o-Y).
* Cash Profit of Rs. 11,137 crore (up 52% Y-o-Y).
* Net Income of Rs. 6,701 crore (up 57% Y-o-Y).

The stock markets have taken the news positive. The stock has just crossed the Rs. 900 mark. Other telecom stocks including rival Reliance Communications and IDEA are trading positive today.

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Asian markets largely in the green

The Asian stock markets are trading largely in the green territory. Except for the All Ordinaries, Hang Seng, Jakarta Composite and Taiwan weighted index which are in the red, the rest of Asia is sounding okay.

Earlier the US markets closed the day the green. The Dow is up 0.67%, NASDAQ is up 0.99% and S&P 500 is up 0.64%

USD-Euro: 0.637
USD-Yen: 104.020
USD-GBP: 0.507

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