At 10:45 AM; the Nifty PSU Bank, Nifty Realty and Nifty Auto index were down in the range of 0.67 per cent and 2 per cent, as compared to 0.60 per cent decline in the benchmark Nifty 50.
Hitachi Energy order backlog stood at ₹29,872.2 crore as of December 31, 2025, providing revenue visibility for several upcoming quarters.
However, till Wednesday, in the past two trading days, the stock price of the Murugappa Group company - TII had rallied 14%, while in the past seven days had surged 20.4%.
With expectation of urban demand recovery, analysts at Motilal Oswal Financial Services said they need to see if January trends for QSR companies are sustaining.
Despite the recent correction, in the past six months, the market price of Hindustan Zinc has zoomed 141%, and Vedanta 48%, as compared to 3.4% rise in the BSE Sensex.
Thus far in the month of February, the Nifty India Defence index slipped 5.5 per cent, as against 1.3 per cent rise in the Nifty 50.
In the past one month, the BSE Oil & Gas index has outperformed the market by gaining 2.2 per cent, as against 2.2 per cent decline in the BSE Sensex.
However, in the past one month, the stock had underperformed the market by falling 22 per cent till Tuesday, February 3, 2026 and touched a 52-week low of ₹109.80 on January 27, 2026.
As many as a combined 41.5 million shares representing 7.3 per cent of total public shareholding of the IDBI Bank have changed hands on the NSE and BSE.
At 11:21 AM on Wednesday; the BSE Oil & Gas index was the top gainer among sectoral indices, up 2.4 per cent, as compared to 0.16 per cent decline in the BSE Sensex.
Textile stocks in focus: Lower reciprocal tariffs and recent trade deals with UK/EU provide multi-year advantage to boost earnings/cashflows by enhancing export base for the sector, believe analysts.
Share price of Avanti Feeds surged 12 per cent to ₹1,078.75 on the BSE in Wednesday's intra-day trade, and surpassed its previous high of ₹999.99 touched on November 13, 2017.
Nifty's Budget day high at 25,440, has now shifted from resistance to support, says Kunal Shah, Sr. Tech Analyst at Mirae Asset ShareKhan. On the upside, the analyst expects the Nifty to test 26,700.
Varun Beverages slips into red, stock down 6% from day's high post Q4 earnings numbers
The market price of personal care products company was quoting at its highest level since January 2019.
The US-India trade deal is particularly positive for export-oriented sectors with meaningful exposure to the US market, say analysts.
Bank stocks rally on India-US trade deal, and hopes of the government raising FDI cap in PSBs to 49 per cent, and relaxing voting rights, believe analysts.
Improved policy optics could encourage US enterprises to advance discretionary tech spending and GCC expansion, even though immediate revenue or margin acceleration for IT firms is unlikely.
Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) and domestic mutual funds (MFs) have increased their holding in ICICI Prudential AMC by nearly 4 percentage points post listing on December 19, 2025.
Avanti Feeds hit a fresh life-time high at ₹960, while Apex Frozen Foods quoted at its highest level since September 2022 after the US President partly rolled back reciprocal tariffs on Indian imports