Adani Ports, BHEL, Tata Motors, ONGC, Mahindra & Mahindra and Tata Steel were the top losers.
Sectorally, telecom, realty, auto and banks were among the top losers, shedding as much as 2.22 per cent.
Mukesh Ambani remains the country's wealthiest promoter as his stake in Reliance is now worth Rs 3.25 trillion!
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Riding on a stock market boom since 2009, India Inc's chief executives have been able to salvage a lot of lost pride in their second innings.
Monday saw the Sensex post its weakest closing since July 11 when it settled at 36,265.93. In the previous four sessions the index had lost 1,249.04 points.
Other major laggards were IndusInd Bank, SBI, Bharti Airtel, ONGC, Tata Steel and Reliance Industries -- falling as much as 6.30 per cent.
The combined market capitalisation of the top 873 family-owned companies was down 26.3 per cent year-on-year (YoY) to Rs 61.8 trillion at the end of trading on Tuesday. It had grown 6 per cent in FY19 and nearly 20 per cent in FY18.
Other players who have declared no production days in the recent past, and during this month, include Mahindra & Mahindra, Maruti Suzuki, Hero MotoCorp, Bosch, Jamna Auto, Wabco and Sundaram-Clayton.
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Budget might turn out to be neutral for the sector.
'It could tempt investors to pick stocks that are not fundamentally sound.'
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Sebi will be taking a number of measures to develop a derivatives market of commodities.
The combined weight of IT companies in the benchmark Nifty 50 index is now at a five-year high of 15 per cent as these companies continue to outperform the broader market.
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The Hinduja Group, Mukesh Ambani, Murugappa, and the Adani groups were the other gainers in the Modi regime, while Naveen Jindal and Sun Pharma groups saw the most erosion in their m-cap in the last five years, reports Krishna Kant.
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The board of directors of Mahindra & Mahindra on Tuesday approved the transfer of the transport solutions group and light commercial vehicles businesses to a separate company.
Investors accumulated quality stocks at valuable and attractive levels.
The breadth, indicating strength of the market was strong
Leading utility and light commercial vehicles maker, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd on Monday said it would acquire 88.41 per cent stake in Mauritius-based Plexion Technologies, a group company of J P Morgan.
Axis Bank was the top laggard in the Sensex pack, plunging more than 5 per cent, followed by HDFC, Bajaj Finance, ICICI Bank, Tata Steel, Bajaj Auto, HDFC Bank and IndusInd Bank. On the other hand, M&M, Infosys, Asian Paints, UltraTech Cement and Tech Mahindra were among the gainers.
With the July 1 deadline to apply for bank licence fast approaching, aspirants are scrambling to meet the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) eligibility criteria to apply.
Food delivery platform Zomato's initial public offering was oversubscribed on the opening day on Wednesday with retail investors bidding for 2.7 times the number of shares reserved for them. The offer received bids for 75.60 crore equity shares against an IPO size of 71.92 crore, stock exchange data showed. Retail investors sought 2.69 times the portion reserved for them. Against 12.95 crore shares reserved for retail individual investors, 34.88 crore shares were bid by 1700 hours.
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Investment in market leaders with a safety-first approach could yield reasonable returns across sectors.
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Richest 10 account for 41% of promoter wealth, up from 33% in December 2018, says Krishna Kant.
India's top IT companies have shown a hiatus between their performance on the bourses in the pandemic period and earnings growth. The combined market cap of the top five IT companies - Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Wipro, HCL Technologies, and Tech Mahindra - is up 87 per cent since the end of March 2020. In comparison, the benchmark BSE Sensex is up 68 per cent during the period. So the industry beat the broader market by a big margin in the last one year.
Sensex in green in afternoon trade.
The Sensex took less than two years to rally from the 10,000-mark it first hit in February 2006 to double that on that New Year's Eve.
A strong showing will be vital to Narendra Modi's chances of a second term.
Like their international peers, Indian CEOs too have a significant portion of their incomes coming from stock options and performance-linked bonuses
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After a long time, real estate companies could hit the fund-raising trail. The reason is improvement in investor sentiment.
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