The 30-share Sensex ended down 39 points at 26,265 and the 50-share Nifty ended down 1 point at 7,954.
As traders obsessively follow US presidential elections, expect a surge in case of a change of guard in the Oval Office.
Market participants are now awaiting Thursday's meeting of the European Central Bank
The rupee has been on northward-ho since July, after hitting a life-time low of 57.13 mid-June. Since the beginning of the year, the local currency has gained over 7 per cent, and still it is down 18 per cent from its pre-August 2011 highs.
riminals smuggle an estimated $30 billion in US currency into Mexico each year from the US, researchers said.
The Fed has prepared the world very well for a rate hike. In fact the market may have priced in a 25 basis points increase. So if the increase is 50 basis points, the reaction could be stunning, but a 25 basis points rise is not likely to have any great impact, says P V Subramanyam.
The sharp and sudden fall in the exchange rate of the Indian currency in relation to the American greenback has taken many by surprise.
In the last four days, rupee has lost 104 paise against the dollar.
Will the rupee keep falling in value against the US dollar? What will be its impact?
Sensex ends lower; govt schemes in focus.
'If there is one certainty in this visit, it is that Trump does not follow a script. He is unpredictable,' highlights Ambassador B S Prakash.
The S&P BSE Sensex slipped 305 points to end at 25,400 and the Nifty50 dropped 87 points at 7,783.
Many Indian companies provide outsourcing services to various American entities, including large banks and financial institutions.
Announcing his tax reforms Trump said his policies would benefit working families.
'It is never a good idea to let the broad population determine policy that is the domain of experts and specialists,' notes Aakar Patel.
In a bid to gain a bigger share of the customer's wallet, banks are ramping up their cross-selling initiatives.
The silver lining is that a pick-up in the US economy could help emerging market exports.
Wipro's revenue from the information technology services business for the quarter ended September was in line with its estimate, though it lagged some of its larger Indian peers in a few operating parameters. Chief executive T K Kurien tells Bibhu Ranjan Mishra he expects a few issues involving a couple of large clients to be resolved in a quarter, before all the company's engines start firing.
The Latin American markets declined less than the other Asian countries.
'This is a historic juncture when the US is in great need of an alliance with India to strengthen its hands in the fierce struggle with China in the Asian theatre,' points out Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
'Rather than cutting and pasting from advanced economies, we should use basic economic principles to think about what is right for India at the stage of development at which we are,' says Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy Subramanian.
Plummeting European currencies, battered by the euro zone financial crisis, are providing European aerospace corporations an opportunity to undercut their American rivals, Boeing and Lockheed Martin, in the contest to sell India 126 medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA) for a price that has been estimated at $11 billion, or about Rs 44,000 crore.
The 'enigmatic' documentary filmmaker Vijay Kumar, 40, who has been arrested by the American authorities for being in possession of 'jihadi' material, brass knuckles and undeclared currencies is quite well known among his band of brothers, who go by the name of Patriotic Forum, reports N Gamesh.
Sensex climbs higher on favourable global cues.
Earlier in the day, the White House said that it would be monitoring the progress on the Chinese assurance that it would be making its currency more flexible. It also said that currency, indeed, would be one of the topics of discussions during upcoming G-20 Summit in Toronto.
'Outside investors don't want to get tangled up in a religious war.'
GMR Infrastructure on Tuesday said it plans to raise Rs 50 billion (Rs 5,000 crore) by selling shares in domestic as well as international markets.
Ajit Balakrishnan offers a New Year resolution for our policy-makers.
Without factoring in the rupee-dollar exchange rate, the index has been touching new all-time highs repeatedly.
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The real estate mogul indicated that economy and trade would be one of his major election issues this summer leading to the November presidential elections.
On Friday, the rupee had lost 6 paise.
The depreciating rupee against dollar has a short-term benefit for the IT industry and the sector should not depend on currency management for profits, a top functionary of industry body Nasscom said.
While growth metrics for Infosys was skewed to a single vertical and it is struggling to get a handle on costs, TCS has been able to manage growth and keep cost inflation under control.
Berkshire Hathaway annual meetings are most awaited.
According to the US treasury department, India has slashed its holdings to $31.6 billion in February, while it was at $32.7 billion in January.
The rupee has strengthened against the American greenback by about 4.8 per cent during the past few months, while it has hit a 150-month low on November 11 against the major world currencies.
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