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Bull run continues: Indices on longest weekly winning streak since 2009

Sensex, Nifty hit fresh all-time highs on Friday

Sensex ends at fresh closing peak of 48,782, up 689 pts; Nifty at 14,347

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) hit a record high of Rs 3,127.55 apiece in the intra-day trade and closed 3 per cent higher ahead of the announcement of Q3FY21 results

Sensex slips 81 pts ahead of FY21 advance GDP estimate; midcaps outperform

Overall, market breadth remained in the favour of the bulls with nearly two stocks rising against a stock that declined at the bourses

Sensex snaps 10-session winning run, skids 264 points; RIL top drag

However, a recovering rupee and sustained foreign fund inflows restricted the fall, traders said

Sebi suggests easing of ownership norms for exchanges, depositories

According to the new proposals, resident promoters or a foreign promoter from a FATF jurisdiction can set up a market infrastructure institution (MII)

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