The fall came on the back of a massive selloff in NBFCs, led by DHFL which skidded over 50 per cent on fears of a liquidity crisis.
This measure will ensure that the price of a scrip cannot move upward or downward beyond a limit set for the day.
A weaker rupee could aid corporate earnings through its positive impact on export intensive sectors such as information technology services, pharmaceuticals and commodity producers such as metal and mining, and oil and gas companies.
With India's imports exceeding exports, weak rupee does more harm than good. Analysts, however, say that rupee depriciation is positive for export-oriented sectors such as IT services, pharmaceuticals, textiles and automobiles
Unless companies press the pedal on implementation, further stock price gains might be limited, says Hamsini Karthik.
Most markets have seen significant erosion in investors' wealth this year
Analysts say strengthening bank's capital will boost earnings, bank needs chief with long stint to run show
The internals of the food inflation are worrying, given a broad-based uptick across categories that tend to be sticky, such as proteins, and a narrower-than-expected reduction in inflation for vegetables.
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.
Centre took Rs 1,002 bn from here in 2017-18, sharply up from Rs 904 bn a year before and Rs 123.6 bn in FY14
With a loan book of $268 billion, India's retail banking is now ahead of Russia, Malaysia and Mexico but behind China, Brazil and Thailand
Check out some of the stocks that will react on the basis of their numbers in the near term.
The Nifty PSU Bank pared losses to end flat after falling as much as 1.05%
Crude oil prices have more than doubled, pushing up India's import bill and raising fears of a higher current account and fiscal deficit. This will impact corporate earnings.
HUL, ITC, Nestle, Colgate, Dabur, Britannia, Asian Paints, P&G are trading at nearly 48 times. The previous record high was 53 times at the end of March 1994.
Besides foreign flows, corporate earnings and US Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen's testimony to the nation's legislature are also likely to impact investor sentiment.
Most NBFCs will have to slow down their loan growth. Some of the most leveraged will have to sell a part of their assets (or loan book) to banks to raise incremental capital. Others may have to knock on the door of their deep-pocketed parents.
BSE's, NSE's overnight liquid fund facility can help stock investors maximise returns
Oil and gas sectot may not put up good numbers in Q4.
The turmoil on the Street and a continued fall of the rupee may affect growth stocks, pushing equity investors back to the relative safety of defensive counters, or forcing them to flee markets, or both.
As inflation rate is near the upper limit of the comfort zone, experts rule out rate cuts anytime soon
The sector is witnessing weak tendering.
Risk-averse investors can hold up to 10 per cent of their portfolio in gold, while aggressive ones can keep five per cent.
While gold returned 12 per cent annual gain in 10 years, Nifty didn't exceed 9 per cent.
In the past three years, personal loans have grown at twice the rate of growth in personal disposable income, leading to a steady rise in household indebtedness. At the end of March this year, Indians owed Rs 25.2 lakh crore to banks and listed non-banking finance companies (NBFCs), up 65 per cent in the past three years.
FIIs accumulated India's top-listed companies at an average valuation of around 16 times.
Indian Hotels, Tata Steel, Tata Teleservices, Tata Motors, Tata Power need some immediate attention of the Tata Group chairman
Experts say it will now be tough for the Modi government to catch up with the UPA's economic record owing to the shock induced by the currency demonetisation.
Combined debt-equity ratio of top companies declines but interest expenses outgrow profits.
Its rich valuation with a PE of 62 times raises downside risk for investors
For top IT services firms, revenue growth in FY15 was the slowest since the Lehman crisis
An action on the rate front is unlikely to figure in Rajan's plan for the moment.
Government-owned companies are more generous in rewarding their shareholders with dividends.
During the dot-com bubble, it had touched a high of 1.9.
Firms have to adhere to strict compliance requirements mandated by global parents
Brokerages expect revenue growth at a 7-quarter high but profitability may disappoint.
The combined share of customs and excise duties, service tax, and value-added tax in India's gross domestic product reached an all-time high of 10.5%.
Recovery seen in Q4, companies continue to focus on enhancing cash flow
The benchmark Sensex companies' underlying earnings per share are down 3 per cent (on a cumulative basis) since January 2015, against 25 per cent rise in the index value during the period
Analysts refuse to read too much into the early birds numbers.
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