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Share buybacks fail to boost firms' long-term stock performance

Since April 2017, 176 companies have repurchased their shares. Some of them have done multiple buybacks. Of these shares of 111 companies are trading currently below the price

How much better can FY22 be?

FY22 was once projected to be 13 per cent higher than FY20. Can six months of lockdown bring growth down to 1 per cent?

All-round performance is fuelling the rally in Tata Consumer Products

Top performer on the Nifty FMCG index; Up 86 per cent in last 12 months

Best of BS Opinion: Next step on vaccines, farmers' protest, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day.

Stock market: When even hindsight isn't 2020

Forecasting is a hit or miss business even in normal times. And at a time when even hindsight is not 2020, predict at your own peril what will happen in 2021

Market run continues; Sensex ends at new high of 47,868, Nifty tops 14,000

Among major Sensex gainers, ITC rose the most by 2.32 per cent, followed by TCS, M&M and SBI

Tumultuous 2020 rewards investors who stared down Covid-induced turmoil

The S&P 500 ended on an up beat, with a 1.4 per cent gain in the holiday-shortened week. This pushed its CY20 gain to 16 per cent, an ending that would have seemed far-fetched in March.

Street signs for 2021

Sharp earnings revival will ease valuations

2020, the year that was: Coronavirus shadow may not go anytime soon

Achieving a vaccine roll-out on a scale that social-distancing norms can be dispensed with can't be expected for most of 2021

MARKETS: Sensex ends volatile session 133 pts higher ahead of F&O expiry

All that happened in the markets today

After a stupendous rally in market, returns may moderate in 2021: Experts

Experts say markets have already priced in a lot of positives

Indices gain for 5th straight day, Sensex ends 259 pts up; banks outperform

All that happened in the markets today

2020, the year that was: The best of bond rallies amid weak yields

Rupee among worst-performing Asian currency, but it supported Atmanirbhar campaign

Despite Covid-19 crisis, mid- and small-cap funds see big gains in 2020

Twenty-five of 46 such schemes, or 54 per cent, outperformed the benchmark indices

In search of Covid capital, companies raised Rs 1.7 trillion in 2020

Of this, Rs 1.44 trillion was raised through QIPs and rights issues

A story of revival amid Covid-19: People stayed home but bulls ran wild

Valuations are expensive, but further rally is possible if the Covid situation eases

PSU presence in Rs 1-trillion club shrinks in 2020; index declines 18%

The companies that exited the trillion club are IOCL, NTPC, BPCL, and Coal India

China's economic recovery continues with exports and commodities booming

The export boom has been one of the strong drivers for China's rebound, with goods shipments hitting a record $268 billion in November.

60% of large-cap schemes underperform as rejig in weighting hits showing

Polarisation and the increase in index weight of a few a stocks have weighed on performance

Top India stock fund shuns 'trash' value rally ahead of vaccine rollout

The $1.8 billion UTI Equity Fund managed by him has returned 26% this year to be the top performer among Indian stock funds with at least $1 billion in assets