Vedanta's consolidated results for the quarter registered a beat on street estimates in terms of revenue and bottomline. Vedanta net sales excluding excise duty in Q1FY18 was higher by 27% to Rs 18285 crore on y-oy basis due to higher volume at Zinc India & ramp-up at Aluminium business and higher commodity prices partially offset by currency appreciation, lower volume at Copper India and Iron ore and pot outages at 500Kt Jharsuguda-I smelter and TSPL fire incident in April 17. Revenues were 19% lower sequentially due to lower commodity prices, currency appreciation,...