The indices closed with losses for the week, with the Sensex declining 476.14 points, and the broader NSE Nifty falling 155.45 points during the period.
Call centres in India brought in extra staff and asked some to work overtime to answer a flood of inquiries to Britain's National Rail after a series of deadly bomb blasts hit London's transport network Thursday, officials said.
India's stock market has gone up by 571 per cent in the last four-and-a- half years. A return like that here in the US would put the Dow over 55,000 today.
With market regulator SEBI having no objection, leading mutual funds including UTI AMC are now awaiting Reserve Bank's nod to invest in the equity of Fortune-500 companies.
Centre has approved 26 cases of foreign technology collaboration and granted industrial licences to 25 cases.\n\n\n\n
SpiceJet Ltd., an Indian budget airline, will likely to sell a foreign currency convertible bond worth $90 million by early September to raise money for more plane purchases, a company executive said Wednesday.
Lapierre welcomed the beginning of distribution of fresh compensation of Rs 1567 crore to the victims.
Although the fall has been very steep on Thursday, but the fall in the Indian market in the last one week has been lesser as compared with a fall in the other emerging markets like Brazil, Russia and Mexico.
Continuing population growth and development of a modern economy propelled by advanced technology is likely to push India's GDP past that of China by the middle of the century, according to economist Paul Erdman.
The NSE Nifty also gained 53 points, or 0.49 per cent, to settle 10,855.15 after shuttling between 10,870.40 and 10,749.40.
The Reserve Bank of India and the Securities and Exchange Board of India are considering a proposal for allowing Indian mutual funds to invest up to $1 billion in world's biggest companies through equity indices like Dow Jones Global Titans Index.
The 30-share Sensex stayed in the green for the better part of the session and hit the day's high of 38,297.70 as buying pace gathered momentum towards the fag-end.
'Invest a part of your portfolio in a global currency that can't be printed, or meddled with -- gold,' suggests Chirag Mehta.
The old guard is still involved in broad corporate decision-making, but quite a few new business heads have started making their mark at the group
The markets opened flat on the back of weak Asian cues. At 9:58 am, the Sensex was trading at 11933 up 15 points and the Nifty was trading at 3474 up 3 points.
The state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation may buy stake in Bharat Petroleum Corporation's 6 million tonne Bina Refinery.
Sensex has shed over 150 points in afternoon trade.
Market breadth depicted gains with 1,476 advances over 1,403 declines on the BSE. 140 stocks remained unchanged.
With global crude prices softening and the govt taking steps to curb inflation, the Indian growth story still has some steam left in it.
Lupin was the top gainer after the USFDA cleared its Goa facility
The septuagenarian minister, in a blue overall, accompanied Wing Commander N Harish on the flight over Kurukshetra and other towns of Haryana before touching down safely at 1010 IST.
Indian investments in equity and debt account for the second-highest remittances outgo (about a quarter).
'It has only become a pathology because of gender relations,' argues historian Veena Talwar Oldenburg in a startling new thesis.
While the long-term sustainable job recovery in the US markets could be a possibility in the not so distant future, there are no such luxuries for its Indian counterpart.
United Phosphorus' awesome recent run continued today as it sprang a solid 13.8% to Rs 278.80 in early trades. It had even hit Rs 287.90 barely as trading commenced today.
The Sensex opened with a small positive gap of eight points at 4,752. After early volaitility in the markets, the Sensex has bounced back into positive zone on selective buying support
This will be for the first time that IAF pilots will get hands-down experience with a mid-air refueller.
The Sensex is holding on to its gains on steady gains in techs, PSUs and heavyweights, and is now up 32 points
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