S&P BSE Midcap shed 0.8% while S&P BSE Smallcap tumbled 0.6%
India's biggest jewellers' association has asked members to stop selling gold bars and coins.
Markets finished lower for the sixth consecutive day as hopes of the Goods and Services tax (GST) bill being passed in the current session of the Parliament faded considerably.
S&P BSE Midcap index and S&P BSE Smallcap were down 2% and 1.3% respectively
The Indian rupee slumped to a record low near 69 to the dollar on Wednesday on growing worries that foreign investors will continue to sell out of a country facing stiff economic challenges and volatile global markets.
The upcoming Budget gives Finance Minister Arun Jaitley a chance to let states boost spending.
BSE Mid-cap index ended at a record closing high of 10499.86 and CNX Mid-cap index ended at a record closing high of 12672.85 levels.
Markets ended higher for the second straight session mainly on the back of upbeat corporate earnings.
Last year, Ranbaxy had paid around $4,20,000 to the US state of Idaho as part of a $500-million settlement that the drug firm had signed with US authorities.
Just as very high oil prices looked an anomaly in a sluggish world, so now do record high equities.
While selling started in April, it has intensified this month, with FPIs pulling out $1.1 billion and $2.5 billion from equities and debt market, respectively
A day after BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) nations agreed on a $100-billion foreign currency reserve pool to tackle the volatile foreign exchange markets, India on Friday said the pool would act as a buffer arrangement, adding it might not withdraw anything from this reserve.
Markets in green tracking firm global cues.
The 30-share Sensex ended down 208 points at 27,057 and the 50-share Nifty closed 59 points lower at 8,094.
The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday night hiked interest rates by 0.25%.
A strong set of industrial output numbers for January provided the perfect backdrop to reap more dividends, with the IIP having expanded 2.7 per cent year-on-year.
Markets ended higher, amid firm global cues, and are on track for third straight day of gains.
Gold has pushed lower as a result of Chinese selling.
Markets across the globe are rallying on hopes that the US Federal Reserve won't lift interest rates until 2016.
The RBI is widely expected to raise its key repo rate by 25 basis points to 8.00 per cent on Wednesday, its third such hike in four months after recent data showed both wholesale and retail inflation at multi-month highs.
Governor Rajan can be more unambiguously pro-growth.
China's devaluation creates new risk in global financial markets and could prolong the West's slowdown.
Costlier oil due to rising conflict in Iraq threatens to hurt the India economy that is already battling price rise and slowing growth.
A mixed global trend and weakness in rupee influenced the sentiments during the day.
Most immediately, he pledged to move slowly if needed in winding down an oil window that provides dollars directly to state-run oil companies
Centre to take a call only in August, just a month before his three-year term ends.
Skittish investors snapped up gold and other safe-haven assets amid fears of a global economic slowdown
BSE Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Consumer Durable, TECk, Power and Metal indices declined between 0.5-1%.
Industrialists affirm their belief that the adverse effects of demonetisation and the goods and services tax are finally over.
Nifty is likely to remain under selling pressure unless and until it breach the 7,700-7,720 levels on closing basis.
So, what does 2016 have in store for the Indian markets? Will they be able to take a giant leap forward in the leap year, and what are the key risks?
China's CSI300 stock index shed 1.1 per cent, hitting a five-week low, while shares of Hong Kong-listed Chinese companies sagged 0.9 per cent.
The dollar index was trading higher by 0.06 per cent against its major global rivals today.
Adequate dollar supply gave a boost to the local currency
RBI governor Raghuram Rajan has slashed rated by 50 bps.
Stellar rally in ITC shares along with strength in the Asian equities capped the downside.
Movement of rupee and crude oil prices will also dictate the trend
Financials were among the top losers along with Sun Pharma and index heavyweight Reliance Industries
RBI governor Raghuram Rajan is likely to cut rates in next monetary policy.
The rupee has depreciated 2.35 per cent in the past three months and one per cent in the past month, despite strong capital flows and falling oil prices.
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