ITC shareholders have seen nearly Rs 1 lakh crore wiped off the company’s market value in about a month, as the stock corrected nearly 20% after a sharp hike in cigarette tax announced in late December. The sell-off has made one of India’s most widely held defensive stocks a major Budget talking point, with investors […]
Shares of India’s largest cigarette maker ITC suffered the steepest one-day decline in almost six years on Thursday, with shares plunging 10% and wiping out more than Rs 50,000 crore in market capitalization after the Finance Ministry imposed a steep new tax on cigarettes late on Wednesday.The stock tumbled to a fresh 52-week low of […]