Indian blue-chip equity indices ended flat on Friday, with NSE Nifty 50 and S&P BSE Sensex gaining 2.2% and 2.02% for the week, led by financials and metal stocks.
Shares of state-owned banks, non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) and infrastructure firms plunged as much as 10% on Monday following the Reserve Bank of India s tougher draft guidelines on the financing and accounting of project loans.
The proposed stricter lending criteria, with additional provisioning, are aimed at preventing accounting shocks but could potentially hurt balance sheets of these entities and exert pressure on their valuation multiples, analysts and economists said.