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FinMin carefully watching rupee movement: Economic Affairs Secretary

According to the Economic Survey 2025-26, the rupee depreciated by around 6.5 per cent between 1 April 2025 and January 22, 2026, making it one of the weakest-performing currencies in this period

Budget 2026-27 boost, price hikes to support India's cement sector

The Budget allocation is up about 9 per cent in nominal terms and, given grant-in-aid, it would push effective capex for FY27 to Rs 17.1 trillion

STT hike on F&O trades to eat into arbitrage fund returns: Experts

Schemes may see 30-50 bps impact but won't go out of favour

Govt bond yields surge to one-year high, rupee rebounds on RBI support

The higher-than-expected borrowing could mean weekly gross supply at Rs 37,000 crore, up from Rs 31,000 crore, assuming 47 auctions during the year, Nomura said in a report

Sensex recovers 1,279 pts from day's low; check key reasons for the rally

The rebound came after a sharp-sell off witnessed during the special trading session on Sunday, February 1, 2026 as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Budget 2026

Stock Market Close: Sensex swings 1,345 pts intraday, ends 944 pts higher; Nifty tops 25,050

Sensex Today | Stock Market LIVE Updates, February 2, 2026: Fag-end buying was led by Reliance Industries, Adani Ports, BEL, L&T, M&M, ICICI Bank, and HDFC Bank\

Piyush Goyal meets National Stock Exchange's CEO Ashish Chauhan in Mumbai

Investors and captains from the mutual funds and asset management industry were also present at the meeting

Adani Group stocks in focus; Enterprises, Ports, Green Energy gain up to 5%

However, thus far in the calendar year 2026, the Adani Group stocks have underperformed the market by falling up to 19 per cent, as against 4.6 per cent decline in the BSE Sensex.

Strong Q3 results lift Sundaram Finance shares by 6% on bourses on Feb 2

Sundaram Finance has also announced that it has declared an interim dividend of ₹16 per share (160 per cent) for the financial year 2025-26 on the paid-up capital of ₹111.10 crore

Bharat Dynamics tanks 18% in 2 days; hits over nine-month low

In the past two trading days, the stock price of Bharat Dynamics has tanked 18 per cent. It is quoting at its lowest level since April 9, 2025

Atul Auto shares soar 10% after reporting 30% jump in Jan 2026 sales

Atul Auto stock rose as much as 9.9 per cent during the day to ₹436 per share, the steepest intraday gain since January 1, 2026

MCX Gold, Silver crash up to 44% from record highs; is the rally over?

At current levels, MCX Gold prices have retraced up to 38.2 per cent, and Silver up to 50 per cent, highlights Aamir Makda Commodity & Currency Analyst of Choice Broking.

Here's why Power Grid Corporation share price rose 4% in trade on Feb 2

Power Grid further announced a second interim dividend of ₹3.25 per equity share of ₹10 each (32.5 per cent of paid-up capital) for FY25-26

Shriram Finance down 5% as company receives GST penalty order from tax dept

Shriram Finance informed stock exchanges that it has received an order from the Office of the Commercial Tax Officer, Chennai South (Tamil Nadu) levying a penalty of ₹46,91,115 for FY 2022-23

FMCG index hits 52-week low; Patanjali, Godrej Cons, HUL, ITC down up to 3%

Thus far in the calendar year 2026, the BSE FMCG index has underperformed the market by falling 7 per cent, as against 4.8 per cent decline in the BSE Sensex.

Budget 2026 playbook: Brokerages identify 5 sectors that will benefit most

FM Sitharaman announced a tax holiday until 2047 for foreign companies providing global cloud services from India, provided services to Indian customers are routed via an Indian reseller

Shilchar Technologies jumps 10% after posting Q3 results; PAT up 22% YoY

In Q3, Shilchar Technologies posted consolidated net profit of ₹42.34 crore, as compared to ₹34.77 crore year-on-year (Y-o-Y), up 22 per cent.

Budget 2026: Mid, smallcap indices fall 4% in 2 days as STT hike takes toll

Small and mid-cap stocks (SMIDs) extended their slide on Monday as Budget 2026's proposal to double STT on F&O trades triggered liquidity concerns.

ITC, Godfrey Phillips, VST Ind slip up to 6% in 2 days on new cigarette tax

In two sessions, ITC shares declined over 5 per cent, Godfrey Phillips over 6 per cent and VST Industries over 3 per cent

Silver, gold ETF rout deepens as metals' historic plunge continues

In the global market, spot gold and silver prices were lower by 6 per cent and 11.8 per cent, respectively. From their record highs, gold and silver are down 13.5 per cent and 32 per cent