Analysts expect global markets to remain in consolidation mode with a negative bias over the next six months.
On Wednesday, FIIs sold shares worth Rs 1,573 crore.
Modi sarkar will have to undertake reforms to prove its mettle.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday told scientists that the government would make it easier to do scientific research in the country and asked them to keep the five principles of economy, environment, energy, empathy, equity at the centre of enquiry and engineering.
Sensex, Nifty have lost about 6%, against 0.5-5% decline in other key Asian indices.
The year 2014 has been one of the best for investors in the equity markets.
Investment bankers handling the IPO had said marquee global investors made big-ticket applications.
FIIs have offloaded stocks worth Rs 13,110 crore
Cleaning up India's grubby business climate is top of the agenda for both regulators and the government.
In the December quarter, Sensex earnings had contracted 5 per cent.
Obama said that both Biden and Harris have the experience needed to get things done and they have concrete policies that will turn their vision of a better, fairer, stronger country into reality.
India's salvation lies in job creation by entrepreneurs, say Manish Sabharwal and Ashok Reddy.
Analysts mostly prefer domestic plays beside select films with foreign exposure.
Indian markets rose 19 per cent in the first half of this financial year, the best performance by any market during this period, globally.
RBI recently hiked LRS limit to $125,000 or Rs 7500,000 as on Aug 19 with $/rupee rate of 60
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Sebi keen to attract larger number of retail investors
India's rapid economic progress over the past two decades masks its abysmal performance on social indicators.
World trade has been growing slower than world GDP since 2012.
Since 2005, in 8 out of 10 years (except in CY11 and CY14) the benchmark indices have given positive returns in December.
Sensex remained volatile through the day.
Rally restricted to big stocks; FIIs have hit investment caps in many large companies.
The road ahead for the markets in the short term will depend on external factors rather than domestic developments.
These have always been pro-cyclical bets but new banks could erode RoEs.
TCS, Infosys and Wipro were down 0.4-2% each. Capital goods majors also ended lower with L&T and BHEL down 1.4-3.9% each.
Sinha started his tenure at Sebi a bit shakily making people wonder if he'd complete his three years. Eventually, he went on to stay twice that long.
There is a large population standing outside the coverage of primary healthcare, says Praveen Gupta of Raheja QBE.
The broader markets also ended lower in line with the benchmark indices
With response tepid so far from domestic investors, these funds might soon approach FIPB for approvals.
Compared to their Indian peers, MNCs have higher return ratios.
Lukewarm response from private investors and turf battles between government agencies have resulted in delaying Modi's ambitions. Sahil Makkar reports.
The biggest private sector lender, are swarming the market with discounts and special offers
Modi has been relentless in building his brand regardless of banks having a problem of fraudulent and unauthorised transactions with his companies.
Metal stocks fell on Tuesday, with the S&P BSE metal index sliding 2.8 per cent compared to the 0.64 per cent fall in the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex
Here's the full text of President Ram Nath Kovind's address on the eve of 70th Republic Day of India.
'Chinese dominance reduces India's influence in South and Southeast Asia and erodes its status globally.' 'For a country striving to create a multipolar Asia, it would be a serious setback,' says Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd).
US start-ups crash and burn frequently, so why the concern about start-up losses in India? The principal reason, says Kanika Datta, is that Indian start-ups clone ideas from the US. Flipkart, Ola, Oyo, Paytm are all variations of ideas developed in the US.
At the Paris climate change summit, there is talk of restricting temperature rise to 1.5?C instead of 2?C, which has been negotiated so far. This would give India less space to grow by limiting carbon emissions further, reports Darryl D'Monte, reporting exclusively for Rediff.com from the French capital.
Apollo and Cooper are yet to make the customary rounds of courts to settle termination charges and break-up fees, but the mood already is buoyant among institutional investors who had red-flagged the highly leveraged transaction agreed upon by the Indian company.
PE firm True North's investment model is to take 51% stake in mid-sized companies and make them large, says Niraj Bhatt.
Shifting to a PPP model could repeat the errors of the past
