The final and last approval for the Adani group's long-delayed billion dollar mega coal mine project came weeks after a surprise election win of Australia's pro-coal ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
The National Stock Exchange listed the Dow Jones Industrial and S&P 500 on its platform last week.
Sentiment got a leg-up after the Lok Sabha on Thursday gave its approval for Rs 80,000 crore recapitalisation bonds for strengthening public sector banks, traders said.
The rally was owing to Central Banks (ECB, US Fed, BoE, Central Banks of Canada, Japan and Switzerland) liquidity move to get dollars at subsidised rates.
The Supreme Court on Monday pulled up the Centre for not being serious on disposal of toxic waste lying in the defunct Union Carbide India Ltd plant, now represented by DOW Chemical Company, in Bhopal for the last 28 years and asked it to take a final decision on it soon.
After an eight-day operation that saw 149 aerial sorties, the air force has located the wreckage of the MiG-29 fighter aircraft which had crashed on snow-clad mountains in Himachal Pradesh on October 19 but the fate of the pilot is not known.
David Silva struck twice and David Villa netted his 50th international goal as Spain wrecked Scotland's hopes of qualifying for Euro 2012 with a 3-1 win in Group I on Tuesday.
A top US official said the Dow Jones Industrial Average's 600 points plunge on Monday was not due to the downgrade of America's credit rating, but reflects the deep unease in the market about conditions in other parts of the world and the strength of the economic recovery.
The big three Indian IT exporters fell over 2-4 per cent on the BSE.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs on Tuesday said that tax rates under the proposed Goods and Services Tax regime in India is likely to be between 16 per cent and 20 per cent.
Other losers included Vedanta, Tata Steel, NTPC, ONGC, L&T, M&M, Coal India, Maruti, PowerGrid, Axis Bank, ITC and HDFC, dropping up to 5.75 per cent. On the other hand, Kotak Bank, Bharti Airtel, HCL Tech, Bajaj Finance and Hero MotoCorp rose up to 0.95 per cent.
Dubbing as "paltry" the relief announced recently for Bhopal disaster victims, the opposition on Wednesday demanded a substantial increase in it and asked the government to become a party to a petition filed in a US court to extract compensation from American firm Dow Chemicals.
Dimitar Berbatov came off the bench to give Manchester United a 1-0 win over Bolton Wanderers on Saturday that put them five points clear in the Premier League while Arsenal rallied to draw at West Bromwich Albion.
Asad Shafiq enjoyed a memorable World Cup debut as he stroked an unbeaten 78 on Monday to help Pakistan seal their place in the quarter-finals with a seven-wicket win over Zimbabwe in a rain-shortened match.
According to Dow Jones VentureSource, a VC industry tracking firm, investments grew in almost every venture hub globally in the April-June quarter, a sign of recovery in the global economy.
Researchers at Indiana University Bloomington's School of Informatics and Computing have found that there is a correlation between the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and public sentiment after analysing more than 9.8 million tweets from 2.7 million users during 10 months in 2008.
Since its close on Monday (August 1), the Sensex has fallen more than 1,000 points or around 6.4 per cent.
According to the data by Dow Jones VentureSource, global venture investment in companies across the world rose 13 per cent in January-March period this year.
"I think the Fed is out of control. I think what they're doing is wrong. Under the Obama administration, you had a lot of help because they had very little interest," Trump told reporters at the White House Thursday while responding to questions on the down sliding of the stock market for a second consecutive day.
FMCG sector analysts say that due to excise free zones, impact of the excise duty hike will be limited, except for Hindustan Lever. The sector wants impetus for rural income generation and no hike in service tax.
According to the sources in the government, in a major U-turn, the Union law ministry has submitted a note to the Group of Ministers headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram on the Bhopal gas tragedy, where it has, reportedly, recommended that the government of India should undertake the cleanup operation of the site of Union Carbide.
US markets jumped on Monday, taking the S&P 500 to its highest in four months. The Dow added 1.3% to 10,754. Nasdaq jumped 1.7% to 2,356.
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Raking up the issue of 1984 riots, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley on Monday alleged that those guilty for the "state sponsored" violence still remain unpunished.
The Nifty ended at 5420, down 40 points. The market breadth was weak. Out of 3059 stocks traded on the BSE, there were 1208 advancing stocks as against 1739 declines.
Dow and Bhopal together illustrate vividly how the authority of nation-states and their government is being usurped by the corporations of all hues giving birth to a perverse trans-nationalism, writes Gopal Krishna.
The NSE Nifty ended up 31 points at 5,399. The market breadth was marginally positive - out of 3,025 stocks traded so far, 1,512 advanced and 1,326 declined on Wednesday.
The broad-based Nifty slipped below the 8,600-level by losing 24.60 points, 0.28 per cent, to 8,590.65
Among the Sensex pack, Yes Bank, L&T, HDFC, RIL, HDFC Bank, PowerGrid and Coal India were the biggest losers -- falling up to 2.43 per cent.
The Union cabinet will discuss the report of the Group of Ministers on the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy on Thursday.
Shanmugam Nagarajan, co-founder and chief people's officer, 24/7 Customer, feels young grads should not feel disheartened because of the current economic downturn.
The NSE Nifty gained 25 points at 5259. The market breadth was strong. Out of 2974 stocks traded on the BSE, there were 1920 advancing stocks as against 982 declines.
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The markets opened on bright note on Thursday morning after a holiday on Wednesday, however the joys were shortlived as the markets came tumbling down towards the close.
Protests following the arrest of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Tuesday crippled retail businesses in and around Mumbai, the commercial capital of the country
The Sensex ended at 17,098, up 45 points. The broader-based Nifty shut at 5,116, up 15 points.
The Information and Broadcasting Ministry said on Wednesday the newspapers will be brought out by Wall Street Journal India Publishing Private limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow Jones and Company Inc, USA.
The Sensex finally ended at 16,053, down 231 points. The NSE Nifty finally settled at 4,751, down 76 points.
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