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As Sensex soars, mcap of BSE-listed companies hit record high of Rs 429 trn

The market capitalisation of BSE-listed companies hit a record high of Rs 429.32 lakh crore on Wednesday as the BSE benchmark Sensex ended higher amid a largely positive trend in global equities. The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 149.98 points or 0.20 per cent to settle at 76,606.57. During the day, it jumped 593.94 points or 0.77 per cent to 77,050.53. The BSE benchmark is just 28.51 points away from breaching its previous lifetime peak of 77,079.04. The market capitalisation of BSE-listed firms stood at Rs 4,29,32,991.65 crore (USD 5.14 trillion) -- its lifetime high. The Sensex was on the back foot for the past two trading sessions. Power Grid was the biggest gainer on the Sensex chart, rising 2.54 per cent, followed by Tech Mahindra, Bajaj Finance, NTPC, UltraTech Cement, Larsen & Toubro, Tata Steel, Bharti Airtel, Bajaj Finserv and HCL Technologies. In contrast, Hindustan Unilever, Mahindra & Mahindra, Infosys and Titan were among the laggards. In Asian markets, Seoul and ..

Asia shares stumble; uncertainty grips euro as it tumbles to one-month low

Trading was thinned in Asia with Australia, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan out for public holidays, but MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan still slumped 0.46 per cent

Stock Market Highlights, May 29: Sensex falls for 4th day, tanks 668 pts; Nifty nears 22,700

Stock Market Highlights on May 29, 2024: In the broader markets, the BSE SmallCap index was the only outperformer, rising 0.23 per cent

Stock Market Highlights, May 28: Sensex falls 220 pts after listless session; SmallCaps bleed

Stock Market Highlights on May 28, 2024: The losses were steeper in the broader markets where the BSE MidCap fell 0.63 per cent, and the BSE SmallCap slipped 1.09 per cent

Stocks to Watch, May 22: Apollo Tyres, Biocon, Gulf Oil, Ircon Int'l

European markets closed on a negative note, with Germany's DAX falling 0.22 per cent and the UK's FTSE dropping 0.09 per cent

Impact of Iranian President Raisi's death on oil, gold and stock market

Oil prices shot up following the news of Raisi's helicopter crash in Asian Markets; OPEC and its allies are expected to meet on June 1

Asia's market reset: 'Expensive' India lures investors avoiding China risks

The powerful rallies in Indian and Japanese equities as China's market has slumped have reset Asia's financial-market landscape

Are the stock markets prepared for a delay in interest rate cut?

As regards rate cuts, analysts expect the global central banks, especially in Asia, to follow the Fed in rate cutting cycle

Exit the dragon: MSCI EM ex-China assets top $11 bn as pessimism grows

India stands to benefit most from increasing flows into index excluding China

Rupee climbs over six-month high on inflows, stronger Asian peers

The rupee was also helped by strength in its Asian peers amid a drop in US Treasury yields. The Korean won climbed 0.8 per cent and the Indonesian rupiah advanced 0.4 per cent

Jefferies' 7 predictions for the next 7 years for the Japanese markets

Nikkei 225 index hit the 40,000 mark for the first time ever on Monday, continuing its bull-run that saw the index reclaim its 1989 peak of 34,000 levels in February

Trump 2.0: A recipe for N Asian market getting shellacked, not India

BIDEN BOUNCE VS TRUMP SLUMP: Nomura weighs in on the potential fallout for AxJ stocks

Asian fund managers more bullish on equities: Bank of America Survey

The return expectations are based on above-par earnings and supportive policy

Asian buyers struggle with high price of onions after India's export ban

The world's biggest exporter of onions banned shipments on Dec. 8 after domestic prices more than doubled in three months following a drop in production.

UBS is underweight on Indian equities within EM/Asia: Sunil Tirumalai

Valuations in India, he said in this interview, are pricing a lot more 'sentiment' premium than what fundamentals of the stocks can explain

Sensex sinks 826 pts, Nifty ends below 19,300; SmallCap index slides 4%

Stock market live on October 23, 2023: At 7:15 am, the Gift Nifty futures were nearly flat at 19,520 levels

Sensex rebounds 173 pts on buying in Reliance Industries, L&T, ITC

The Nifty gained 51.75 points to end at 19,716.45. It moved between a low of 19,554 and a high of 19,730.70 in day trading

We need to get over syndrome that 'West is the bad guy': S Jaishankar

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday said the West was not the "bad guy" as it was not flooding Asian and African markets with goods on a massive scale and that there was a need to get over the "syndrome" of seeing it in a negative way. Jaishankar, in an interview to Malayalam news channel Asianet, also made it clear that he was not batting for the West. He was in Thiruvananthapuram as part of the launch of the PM Vishwakarma scheme. "It is not the West which is flooding Asia and Africa with goods on a massive scale. I think we need to get over the syndrome of the past that the West is the bad guy and on the other side are the developing countries. The world is more complicated, the problems are much more complicated than that," the minister said. Former Indian diplomat T P Sreenivasan interviewed the minister for the channel. On being asked whether Chinese President Xi Jinping did not attend the G20 summit in New Delhi because it did not want India to be seen as leader

Analysts turn cautious on Asian markets; India remains an outlier

Indian markets, analysts believe, are an outlier and can still justify expensive valuations amid a likely recovery in corporate earnings going ahead

Sensex down for 2nd day, dips 365 pts; Nifty near 19,400; all but PSBs fall

CLOSING BELL ON AUGUST 11, 2023: 14 out of the Sensex 30 stocks declined over a per cent each, while HCL Tech gained 3 per cent on Friday.