With softening commodity prices and rising consumption, analysts expect the overall corporate performance to improve in the second half of the fiscal year. The aggregate revenue of a sample of 2,638 listed companies, excluding banking and finance firms, increased by a four-quarter high of 41.5% on-year in April-June. But growth in net profit was at a four-quarter low of 15.1%
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