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Sensex snaps 3-day losing run, up 481 pts; Nifty holds 19,500; SBI down 3%

Closing Bell on August 4: Among sectors, the Nifty IT index added 1.45 per cent, while the Nifty PSU Bank index fell 0.86 per cent

Sensex slips 542 pts, Nifty holds 19,350; Vedanta sinks 7%, Adani Ent up 2%

Closing Bell on August 3: 39 of the 50 Nifty stocks ended in the negative zone led by Titan, Bajaj Finserv, ONGC, ICICI Bank, Nestle India, Ultratech Cement

Sensex sinks 677pts, Nifty nears 19,500 amid global rout; all sectors bleed

CLOSING BELL on August 2, 2023: Equity markets roiled under global pressure on Wednesday after rating agency Fitch downgraded credit rating of the US

Here's why Sensex tanked over 900 points in Wednesday's intra-day trade

All sectors, meanwhile, nosedived in the sea of red, with Nifty Metal, Nifty PSU Bank, and Nifty Oil & Gas as some of the worst performers

Sensex, Nifty end choppy day flat; Power Grid slides 5%, Hero Moto 3%

Closing Bell on August 1, 2023: Power Grid, Hero MotoCorp, Apollo Hospitals, IndusInd Bank, Bajaj Finserv, SBI, Adani Ports, Reliance Industries, and Maruti Suzuki were the top laggards

Sensex up 367 pts, Nifty holds 19,750; metal, IT stocks shine; FMCGs slide

Closing Bell on July 31: NTPC, Power Grid, Tata Steel, TCS, Tech M, JSW Steel, Maruti Suzuki, Tata Motors, Wipro, Bajaj Finserv, Infosys, HCL Tech, and IndusInd Bank were the top gainers

Sensex trims losses, ends 107 pts down; Nifty below 19,650; NTPC soars 4%

CLOSING BELL ON JULY 28, 2023: NTPC and PowerGrid were the major gainers among the Sensex 30 stocks, while Bajaj Finserv and HDFC Bank declined up to 2 per cent on Friday.

Sensex ends flat in choppy trade; Metals gain; Asian Paints dips 4%, ITC 2%

CLOSING BELL ON JULY 25, 2023: The NSE Nifty ended 8 points higher; Tata Steel and JSW Steel were the major gainers on Tuesday.

Sensex falls for 2nd day, slips 299 pts; ITC sheds 4%; auto stocks gain

CLOSING BELL ON JULY 24, 2023: The NSE Nifty ended with a loss of 73 points; Reliance down 2% was the other major laggard on Monday.

How will India cope with Urals breaching the EU-denominated price cap?

Urals crude has passed the trading price cap imposed by the G7 but supplies to India may sail through largely unscathed. Here's why

Higher inflation, oil price to keep RBI on hold; cap market gains: Analysts

Another worry for the RBI and the markets are the monsoons back home (intensity and spatial distribution)

ONGC, Reliance-BP bid for oil, gas blocks, foreign giants stay away

State-owned ONGC, mining baron Anil Agarwal's Vedanta and a consortium of Reliance Industries Ltd and BP Plc put in 13 bids for 10 areas offered for finding and producing crude oil and natural gas in India's latest bid round, according to regulator DGH. India offered 10 blocks for bidding in the eighth round of the Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OALP) in July last year. After extending the bid deadline a few times, the round closed last week. Five companies - Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Vedanta Ltd, Oil India Ltd (OIL), Sun Petrochemicals Pvt Ltd and Reliance-BP Exploration (Alpha) Ltd - put in 13 bids for the 10 blocks on offer in OALP-VIII, the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) said putting out a summary of bids received. Seven of the 10 blocks on offer received single bids and the other three blocks had two bidders each. Global energy giants like ExxonMobil, Chevron and TotalEnergies, which India has been courting to give a fillip to exploration and production

Russia oil discount to India shrinks to $4, delivery charges remain opaque

The steep discounts on Russia crude oil that India gorged on since the Ukraine war, have plunged but the shipping rates charged by Russia-arranged entities continues to remain 'opaque' and higher than normal, sources said. Russia bills Indian refiners at a price shade less than the USD 60 per barrel price cap imposed by the West but charges anything between USD 11 to USD 19 per barrel, twice the normal rate, for delivery from the Baltic and Black Sea to the west coast, three sources with knowledge of the matter said. The USD 11-19 per barrel shipping costs from the Russian ports to India - some of it on the 100+ tankers reportedly acquired by Russian actors for a shadow fleet - are higher than rates for comparable distances, such as a voyage from the Persian Gulf to Rotterdam. Following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in February last year, Russian oil was sanctioned and shunned by European buyers and some in Asia, such as Japan. This led to Russian Urals crude being traded at a disco

Indian refiners saved $7 billion from Russian crude imports in 14 months

India is the world's third-largest crude oil consumer and imports more than 85 per cent of its oil needs

Indian OMCs confident of retaining discounts on Russian crude oil

Before the war in Ukraine, Indian refiners had bought Russian oil rarely due to the high freight costs involved

Fresh records on D-St! Sensex ends atop 64,700, up 803 pts; leaps 10% in Q1

CLOSING BELL ON JUNE 30, 2023: The NSE Nifty 50 was up 217 points on Friday. While the NSE benchmark ended 3.5 per cent higher in June, the index registered a 10.5 per cent gain for Q1FY24.

Oil settles higher, trade choppy as tight supply vies with rate hike fear

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde has cemented expectations for a ninth consecutive rise in euro zone rates in July

Oil prices ease on fears of more interest rate hikes denting fuel demand

Leaders of the world's top central banks reaffirmed on Wednesday they think further policy tightening will be needed to tame stubbornly high inflation

Oil prices jump 3% on bigger-than-expected decline in US crude storage

Investors remained cautious that interest rate hikes could slow economic growth and reduce oil demand

Markets at new high! Sensex hits 64K, ends 499 pts up; Nifty tests 19K

CLOSING BELL ON JUNE 28, 2023: The BSE Sensex hit a new all-time high at 64,050; Nifty at 19,011 and Bank Nifty at 44,508 on Wednesday.