CLOSING BELL: The BSE Midcap, Smallcap indices, however, bucked the trend and ended with a gain of up to 0.2 per cent. Breadth too was marginally positive.
Stocks to watch today: Mankind Pharma has confirmed that the Income Tax Department conducted a search at some of the premises/ plants related to the Company and some of its subsidiaries
Stocks to Watch today: In a major blow, lessors have approached aviation regulator DGCA for deregistration of three planes of SpiceJet
Financial stocks gain most as Sensex, Nifty50 rise over 1%
On Friday, the market breadth was weak, with 2,127 stocks declining and 1,390 advancing
Merged entity to have far lower weighting than expected
Market experts said that a combination of direct equity investors reaching a saturation point and less number of initial public offerings or IPOs in the market have contributed to this trend
Benchmark indices now just 3% shy of lifetime peaks
FPIs poured in over Rs 10,000 crore for a second month in a row as risk sentiment improved after regulators prevented a banking crisis in the developed world
CLOSING BELL: Among buzzing stocks, shares of RVNL were locked at 20 per cent upper circuit, RITES zoomed 9 per cent, and Texmaco Rail 7 per cent
CLOSING BELL: The S&P BSE Sensex was up 65 points, while the Nifty 50 added six points. Tata Motors, NTPC, Asian Paints, SBI and Bharti Airtel were the prominent gainers.
India's valuations will always command a premium, says chief investment officer of Enam Asset Management Company
CLOSING BELL: Infosys, TCS and HCL Technologies, down 1.3 - 2.4 per cent, collectively accounted for a loss of 156 points on the BSE Sensex.
CLOSING BELL: The broader markets outperformed; Midcap and SmaIlcap indices were up 0.5 per cent and 0.2 per cent, respectively.
CLOSING BELL: The BSE IT index plunged 4.7 per cent, while the FMCG and Bankex gained 1 per cent and 0.3 per cent, respectively. Midcap and SmaIlcap indices too outperformed in trades on Monday.
The gains come on the back of strong inflows from foreign portfolio investors
TCS Q4 results review: Going ahead, most brokerages expect an inevitable slowdown for the company in the near-to-medium term
The market breadth was positive with 2,036 stocks advancing and 1,480 declining
Sensex and Nifty have risen by around 4 per cent in the six days of gains which is the longest winning run since the eight-day rally from November 22 to December 1 last year
Eight of the top 10 valued firms added Rs 82,169.3 crore in market valuation last week, with HDFC twins emerging as the biggest winners amid an overall positive trend in equities. Last week, equity markets were closed on Tuesday (April 4) for 'Mahavir Jayanti' and on Friday (April 7) on account of 'Good Friday'. The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 841.45 points or 1.42 per cent in the holiday-shortened week. Of the top 10 valued firms, eight including Reliance Industries, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), HDFC Bank, Hindustan Unilever Ltd, HDFC and ITC witnessed gains in their market valuation. From the top-10 pack, the valuation of HDFC Bank jumped Rs 31,553.45 crore to Rs 9,29,752.54 crore. HDFC's market valuation surged Rs 18,877.55 crore to Rs 5,00,878.67 crore. Bharti Airtel added Rs 9,533.48 crore taking its valuation to Rs 4,27,111.07 crore. The market capitalisation (mcap) of Reliance Industries rallied Rs 6,731.76 crore to Rs 15,83,824.42 crore and that of TCS climbed Rs 5,81