India's Wipro beats first-quarter revenue estimates
Consolidated revenue at India's fourth-largest IT services provider stood at 221.35 billion rupees ($2.57 billion), rising 0.8 per cent from a year earlier and topping analysts' average estimate of 220.59 billion rupees, according to LSEG data.
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