Tata steel and Wipro bag ‘most Ethical Company Award’

Tata Steel Ltd and Wipro Limited are the two Indian companies that have been chosen among 135 world's most ethical companies for 2018 by the Ethisphere Institute, a leading international organization dedicated to the creation, advancement and sharing of best practices in business ethics, a press release has said.

The 135 companies dedicated to "defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices" have been selected from 23 countries across 57 industries, Ethisphere Institute said in its statement on Monday.

A total of 135 companies from 23 countries are being recognized in 2018, the release said.  It added that the award will be bestowed on March 13. Amazingly, Tata Steel Limited has been honored by Ethisphere Institute USA five times earlier, in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016 & 2017, in the Metals, Minerals and Mining grouping.

It seems that Tata Steel Limited and Wipro Limited will be impacted by the investors with this dignity in the trading days ahead.  However, the shares of Tata Steel and Wipro on Monday spiked 4.15% and 4.05% of Rs. 713.70 and 289.05 respectively on National Stock Exchange.

L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering bags Rs 2,200 crore order

L&T Hydrocarbon Engg Ltd., a wholly subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Ltd., has obtained an order worth over Rs 2,200 crore from Abu Dhabi's Al Dhafra Petroleum Operations Company. Al Dhafra Petroleum is a joint venture between Abu Dhabi National Oil Corporation, Korea Oil National Corporation, and GS Energy.

As part of the order, L&T Hydrocarbon will set up flow lines, gathering facilities, and pipelines to transfer crude oil and gas from the Haliba fields in east Abu Dhabi to a processing facility at Asab.

Shares of Larsen & Toubro Ltd ended higher by 1.56% at Rs 1,350.00 on NSE, at the closing hours on Monday.

HPCL Q3 profit rises 23% to Rs 19 billion; Stocks lower

Indian state-owned oil and natural gas Company, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited’s (HPCL) profit rose 22.6% per cent in the Q-3, beating estimates.

Profit rose to Rs 19.50 billion, compared with Rs 15.90 billion a year earlier. Operational income rose over 13% to Rs 628.32 billion.

The country's largest oil explorer, Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), last month agreed to buy the govt’s majority stake in HPCL for Rs 369 billion.

Shares of HPCL traded 1.45% lower to Rs 394 on NSE, meantime BSE Sensex closed lower by 407.40 points, or 1.18%, to 34,005.26, while the Nifty 50 fell 121.90 points, or 1.15%, to 10,454.95, on closing hours, Friday.