Markets finished the session on a dismal note with Sensex closing at its lowest level since August 2014.
Bombay Stock Exchange Sensex closed 30 points lower at 21,140 levels.
Index heavyweights were the top losers along with bank shares.
All sectoral indices on the BSE and NSE ended in the red, led by realty, banking, metal, pharma, pharma and financial stocks.
Government-owned companies are more generous in rewarding their shareholders with dividends.
Participants are keenly awaiting the rollovers to the next series ahead of the expiry of June F&O.
Corrosion is a big menace for anything with steel application from rebars in construction, oil and water pipelines, railway track, power distribution poles to automobiles, says Kunal Bose.
The Bombay Hemp Company offers goods fashioned out of hemp, the lesser known cousin of ganja.
Telecom operators, including Reliance Jio, have been demanding "same service same rules" regime which means that mobile applications providing calls and messaging services should also be made to comply with set of rules that are mandatory for mobile service providers.
Markets ended in green on rate cut hope.
Radhakishan Damani is the only billionaire to see his wealth grow by around 20% during the lockdown.
On the last day of FY!5, the Sensex ended lower by 18.37 points at 27,957.49.
The 30-share Sensex ended up 204 points at 27,215 and the 50-share Nifty ended up 59 points at 8,238.
The Sensex has slid 18.5 per cent from its January 2015 peak.
At 15.05 PM, the 30-share Sensex was up 281 points at 28,238 and the 50-share Nifty gained 86 points at 8,577
Participants are keenly waiting for the January IIP.
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Banking shares saw a renewed buying interest on the hopes of a rate-cut by the central bank post the easing of macro-economic data.
BSE Realty index zoomed by almost 7% followed by counters like Metal, Oil & Gas, Auto, Banks, Auto, Healthcare and Power, all surging between 1-5%.
Metal shares were the top gainers with Hindalco up over 5%.
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The recovery was led by pharma majors led by Dr Reddy's Labs.
Above normal monsoon forecast and strength in Asian equities lifted sentiments.
Signs of financial stress were visible when the airline reported a loss of Rs 10.40 billion.
The Nifty had hit its third successive record high of 7,922.70 today.
The S&P BSE Sensex has dipped five per cent, thus far, in CY15.
Investors sought to book profits at attractive valuations after recent run up in last few trading sessions.
India's real GDP growth is set to exceed 7 per cent for CY-2015.
Sarvesh Agrawal tells Shobha Warrier about how he built a start-up "of the interns, by the interns and for the interns."
Half of the sharp rise in stocks in 2014 was driven by re-ratings - rise in price-to-earning ratios on hopes the new government would turn around the economy which will reflect in corporate earnings.
Sensex closed 63.82 points higher at 26,851.05 in Muhurat trading; Nifty rises 18.65 points to end at 8,014.55.
The S&P BSE Sensex ended down 371 points at 24,966 and the Nifty50 closed 101 points lower at 7,615.
The 30-share Sensex ended down 71 points at 26,710 and the 50-share Nifty lost 38 points to close at 8,030.
Shares of rate sensitive sectors such as realty, infrastructure, banking and automobiles ended higher ahead of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) mid-quarter policy review on June 17.
A way out of the economic slump is to revisit the template of 15 years ago and follow its constituents, recommends Ajay Shah.
Infosys, Tata Motors, ONGC, TCS and GAIL are the top 5 losers.
Markets ended lower amid volatile trade with Sun Pharma leading the decline.
Modi is the first foreign leader to be invited to the palace by the Crown Prince, who appreciated the role played by Indian workers in the development of UAE as a modern nation, ministry of external affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar tweeted.
Remembering Verghese Kurien, a visionary who singlehandedly built world's biggest agricultural development programme.
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