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Bank of India shows all the stress that covid-19 can bring

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Public sector lender Bank of India reported a large net loss of ₹3,571 crore for the March quarter. But this hardly mattered given that most of its peers too have shown a loss.Also, the loss was mainly due to an eight-fold jump in provisioning for bad loans, and also for risks arising out of the lockdown due to of the covid-19 pandemic.

The lender is not an outlier in this case.Ergo, the reason behind the stock’s more than 9% fall on Thursday is not just the net loss or the provisioning.There are a number of factors that raise red flags in the case of Bank of India.Net interest income, which is a bank’s core business, showed a 6.2% drop from the year ago period.

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