The NSE Nifty 50 index has been quoting below its long-term 200-day moving average since February 27, 2026.
While near-term uncertainties surrounding the monsoon, crude oil prices and geopolitical developments persist, auto sector's growth outlook is increasingly being driven by structural demand.
R C Bhargava talks about the rise of the Indian passenger vehicle market after the 1991 reforms and the industry's continuing transformation
Stocks to watch today: BEL, IDFC First Bank, BoB, Coal India, AU Small Finance Bank, SAIL, Maruti Suzuki, Tata Power, Allied Blenders, Jindal Steel, NTPC, ONGC and more will be focus today.
Car maker leader Maruti Suzuki India is aiming to sell around 9 lakh CNG vehicles, a nearly 30 per cent increase in the ongoing fiscal, with demand for such automobiles rising in the wake of the West Asia war, according to a senior company official. The demand for CNG vehicles is no longer restricted to small cars and vans, but it has also seen a rise even in the company's SUVs, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL) Senior Executive Officer, Marketing & Sales, Partho Banerjee told PTI. "In the first quarter of this fiscal, we have sold 2.2 lakh units of CNG vehicles across models, which is a growth of 58 per cent over the same quarter last year," he said when asked about the traction of CNG vehicles currently in the market. Banerjee said due to the fuel price hike after the West Asia war, demand for CNG vehicles has shot up. Asked what the target for CNG vehicle sales this fiscal is, he said, considering how CNG vehicle sales have grown in the first quarter, for the full year we are ...
SUV contribution to Maruti Suzuki's domestic sales has risen from 12 per cent in FY23 to around 30 per cent in the first quarter of FY27
The refreshed Brezza will target first-time, replacement and additional-car buyers as Maruti responds to changing preferences and intensifying competition in compact SUVs
The price revision, effective from August, 2026, comes as Maruti Suzuki looks to offset rising input costs, with the exact quantum of the increase differing across models
OEM revenue is expected to rise 22-29 per cent in Q1FY27, led by strong vehicle demand, exports and premiumisation, while higher input and freight costs are likely to squeeze margins
Reliance Industries, JSW Steel, Federal Bank, Oberoi Realty, Tata Tech among top stocks slated to post their Q1 results today.
Maruti Suzuki India on Thursday said it will challenge an order of the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Raipur, that directed the company to replace a customer's vehicle with a new E20 compatible vehicle, citing fuel contamination. The car in the case was an E20-compatible car, fully equipped to handle E20 fuel, and there is evidence of contamination in the fuel collected from the customer's vehicle, Maruti Suzuki India said in a statement. "We have learnt of an order by the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Raipur, wherein Maruti Suzuki has been directed to replace the customer's vehicle with a new E20-compatible vehicle," it said. The car in this case was an E20 compatible car, fully equipped to handle E20 fuel and so disclosed in the owner's manual, it added. "There is evidence of contamination in the fuel collected from the customer's vehicle. Several other relevant facts have also not been reflected in the order," the company asserted. The state
India's automobile industry recorded its strongest-ever first quarter, with record sales across key segments, while SIAM expects festive demand and easier financing to sustain momentum
Stocks to watch today: TCS, Maruti Suzuki, JSW Steel, JK Tyre, Federal Bank, AU SFB, SAIL, Nalco, NLC India, Anand Rathi Wealth, JSW Steel, Cummins India, among others, will be in focus today
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi inaugurated Maruti Suzuki's Kharkhoda plant, which is set to scale up to 1 million units annually
Car market leader Maruti Suzuki India on Wednesday reported a 19.3 per cent rise in total sales at 2,00,390 units in June as compared to 1,67,993 units in the same month last year. Total domestic passenger vehicle sales were at 1,47,187 units last month as compared to 1,18,906 units in June 2025, a growth of 23.8 per cent, Maruti Suzuki India said in a regulatory filing. Sales of mini cars, comprising the Alto and S-Presso were at 11,416 units in June as compared to 6,414 units in the year-ago month. Compact cars, including Baleno, Celerio, Dzire, Ignis, Swift, WagonR sales rose at 63,815 units last month as compared to 55,205 units in June 2025. Sales of utility vehicles, consisting of Brezza, Ertiga, e Vitara, Fronx, Grand Vitara, Invicto, Jimny, Victoris and XL6, rose to 61,726 units in the month under review as compared to 47,947 units in the same month a year ago. The company said sales of van Eeco stood at 10,230 units last month as compared to 9,340 units in June 2025. Sal
The startups will work on end-of-life lithium-ion battery recycling, procurement automation, multilingual customer engagement, brand visibility and software development
Key trigger: Brent Crude prices have declined to $73/barrel, to almost its lowest since start of the US Iran war on February 28, 2026.
Among sectors, Bernstein expects oil marketing companies (OMCs) will likely stand to benefit from reduced crude oil prices that dropped around 4 per cent on Monday to $83 a barrel (bbl)
Falling crude price is a clear positive for India's automobile and tyre sectors, where raw material and logistics costs are highly sensitive to crude derivatives, say analysts at ICICI Securities.