If elected president, the Republican nominee said he would declare China a currency manipulator, cancel payments to United Nations for combating climate change and renegotiating NAFTA.
India's economy could also suffer some ill-effects without necessarily triggering retaliation via higher tariff barriers against Indian goods, says Devangshu Datta.
Trump said if elected the US under his administration would pursue right away to bring back jobs.
Investors will remain cautious ahead of F&O expiry.
So far this month, another $4.5 billion (Rs 33,000 crore) has flown into domestic stocks.
Pakistan-born Canadian writer Tarek Fatah on Saturday said the Modi government's decision to demonetise 500 and 1000 rupee currency notes has hit Pakistan-sponsored terror activities against India and flow of counterfeit currency has been terminated.
'With English the most rapidly growing medium of instruction in India's schools and accounting now for more than one-sixth of the total (next only to Hindi, which accounts for a half), India is not about to turn its face away from a language that has global currency,' notes T N Ninan.<
In worldwide trade, the American dollar traded with solid strength against all major emerging currencies
The US president, who has expressed disappointment over China's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, claimed that it was the "incompetence" of Beijing that led to the mass killing across the globe.
BSE Mid-cap index ended lower by over 2.5% and BSE Small-cap index tumbled over 3%.
The US dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of six major currencies, was 0.38 per cent lower at 95.41.
On the sectoral front, rate-sensitive sectors such as Bankex and Auto gained by 1% and 0.7% respectively while BSE Consumer Durables gained 1.4%.
The government would take a number of steps to energise and deepen the country's corporate bond as well as currency derivatives market.
Heavy dollar selling by banks and exporters alongside debt-related inflows largely supported the rupee
India has no option but to shut China out, notes T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
Markets across the globe gained after China Securities Regulator removed its four-day-old circuit-breaker system.
The Taliban knows that Washington holds the key, points out Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Sensex opened at 25,817 levels, 47 points down.
The global agency said there are "serious deficiencies" on the part of the country in checking terror-financing and it lacks an effective system to deal with it.
Nifty50 surged 145 points to close at 8,468 after hitting an intra-day high of 8,475.
Weak GDP data and unfaouvrable global data has pulled down Sensex, Nifty.
Devangshu Datta predicts the good, the bad and the ugly of currency trends for the coming year.
The broader markets outperformed the benchmark indices- BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices gained 0.4% each
Determining the direction of the dollar in Trump's America will be more critical for asset allocation than getting your call on interest rates right, says Akash Prakash.
A recently published Cost of Living Survey from Mercer is full of surprises.
The BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices have performed better than the front-liners
It would be a huge achievement if the new administration manages a successful transition to some sense of domestic and international normalcy in these frantic times marked by the pandemic and rise of illiberal regimes across the world, observes Shreekant Sambrani.
The S&P BSE Sensex ended down 371 points at 24,966 and the Nifty50 closed 101 points lower at 7,615.
Experts disagree with the idea and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which has the sole right to print money, is not comfortable with it as well.
The government has decided to do away with the various classifications of foreign investments for the purpose of calculating foreign investment in downstream companies.
Heavy unwinding by foreign portfolio investors and lacklustre equities dampened the sentiment
Reliance Industries was the top gainer in the Sensex pack, rallying up to 15 per cent, followed by Kotak Bank, Maruti, HDFC twins, Titan, L&T and Axis Bank. On the other hand, IndusInd Bank, ONGC, ITC and Bajaj Auto closed with losses. the NSE Nifty settled 516.80 points, or 6.62 per cent, up at 8,317.85.
The first major devaluation of the rupee happened in 1966 when it was pegged against the US dollar at Rs 4.75/$
It offers a lot of opportunities, especially in the commodities market.
Market breadth was weak with 1,260 advances and 1,597 losers on the BSE.
The 30-share Sensex ended higher by 31 points at 26,591 and the 50-share Nifty gained 10 points at 8,061.
The rupee showed range-bound movement on Wednesday as investors preferred to stay cautious in the unsure market.
Continuing its probe into covert activities of Lashkar-e-Tayiba, the National Investigation Agency has arrested a man hailing Bihar in the national capital,
The top losers from the Sensex pack are ONGC, Coal India, Vedanta, Reliance Inds and L&T.
The US election campaign has provided plenty of ammunition for the CCP to make its case that its political system is superior.
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