Lower cost and easier termination may well be among the reasons that companies seek to have employees on contract. The share of employees on contract has increased to 57.3 per cent of the total workforce this year as compared to 53.7 per cent in the previous year.
Bharti Airtel, HDFC, ONGC, ITC and CIL emerged as the top gainers.
Indian markets ended on a lower note after the stimulus announced by the European Central Bank (ECB) failed to meet expectation.
NSE Nifty is trading at 4,280, up 30 points.
Nifty has a virtual monopoly in the index derivatives segment.
Capital goods shares continued to trade firm in late noon despite weak market trend on the back of encouraging core sector growth in February.
The battle for the takeover of MCFL has been going on for one year.
In the past few months, 45 companies have signalled their intent to raise money through the institutional placement route.
Reliance Industries and ONGC were down 4-6% each contributing the most to the Sensex losses
Coal India would be second company to hit the markets under the government's disinvestment programme.
'Initially, Gift City was just another real estate project, but all that changed with Modi moving to New Delhi,' notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Index funds need to urgently address the issue of lower costs, because this can make a considerable difference to the total returns over a period of time.
The recent weakness in stock markets has provided an opportunity to buy quality stocks relatively cheaper
The company has a market capitalisation of $743 billion.
Sebi said it was closely monitoring the situation at the NSE following the disruption of trading due to technical issues.
Top 5 losers include Lupin, Cipla, Sun Pharma, Dr Reddy's Lab and GAIL down 1.6%-11%.
Above normal monsoon forecast and strength in Asian equities lifted sentiments.
Stellar rally in ITC shares along with strength in the Asian equities capped the downside.
The 30-share BSE Sensex closed down 162 points at 28,338 and the 50-share Nifty was down 67 points at 8,463.
The airline has struggled to pay salaries and vendors on time and its Rs 10,963 crore fund and non fund based facilities have now been assigned 'D' rating by ICRA - the seventh rating downgrade since March 2017.
Sensex in green, midcaps, smallcaps fail to show up; bluechips rule.
'At this time, staying in the game is more important.' 'If we do that, then wealth can be generated.'
Don't get carried away by the current rally; be picky and take a stock-specific approach.
'If the Sensex remains over 5000 for some time, it will climb higher,' says says Ramesh S Damani.
A new board has been constituted for the merged entity 'Vodafone Idea Ltd' with 12 directors (including six independent directors) and Kumar Mangalam Birla as its Chairman. The board has appointed Balesh Sharma as the CEO, the companies said in a joint statement. The combination will have an all-India revenue market share of 32.2 per cent and take the numero uno slot in nine telecom circles, it said adding that both Vodafone and Idea brands will continue.
In the case of Indian equities specifically, all eyes will now be on the next RBI monetary policy scheduled for September 29.
The regulatory actions, undertaken by the RBI and the government, came hours after finance ministry sources confirmed that SBI was directed to bail out the troubled lender. For the next month, Yes Bank will led by the RBI-appointed administrator Prashant Kumar, an ex-chief financial officer of SBI.
The S&P BSE Sensex ended down 371 points at 24,966 and the Nifty50 closed 101 points lower at 7,615.
BSE has informed the members of the exchange that Cadbury India Ltd will be delisted with effect from January 20 pursuant to the compliance with SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers Regulations 1997)
ICICI Bank Ltd's equity issue of Rs 3,050 crore with a green shoe option of Rs 450 crore has received bids in excess of Rs 3,150 crore less than two hours after it opened for bidding on Friday.
The broad-based NSE Nifty rose 52.80 points, or 0.50 per cent, to end at 10,530.70
Investors should avoid jumping from their current funds into those that have outperformed lately, advises Arnav Pandya, a certified financial planner.
SpiceJet had bet its fortunes heavily on the new version of the 737 of which it has 13 planes in its fleet and another 193 aircraft on order
The NSE Nifty went past the 8,600-mark for the first time since November 1.
Deven Choksey, managing director of broking firm, K R Choksey Investment Managers shares his concern about 'trading stoppages' with Rediff.com's Prasanna D Zore.
It could be a matter of concern that foreign shareholders of the NSE are registered in tax havens such as Mauritius and Cyprus.
The government on Thursday fixed Rs 358 a share as the floor price for up to 10 per cent stake sale in Coal India on Friday, which may help the exchequer garner about Rs 22,600 crore (Rs 226 billion) in the biggest sale of shares.
Bajaj Auto Ltd (BAL) on Tuesday said workmen at its Chakan plant have "stopped coming" to work thereby affecting production following the management's refusal to allot them shares at discounted price.
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