The exchange moved through many ups and downs through the years.
The story of the Bombay Stock Exchange and the people who shaped its growth: From wars and bomb blasts to speculators, reformers and wealth creators.
It was the worst Budget day today for Dalal Street with the Bombay Stock Exchange index Sensex plunging over 850 points - the biggest fall on any Budget day - on concerns of widening fiscal deficit.
'Technology doesn't decide its destiny-humans do. We choose whether it becomes a weapon or a tool for progress.' 'Every breakthrough looks like a miracle at first, a disappointment later -- and finally, just another useful tool.'
The Reserve Bank's of India's (RBI's) decision to increase the key short-term interest rates by 25 basis points has been termed as in-line with the street expectations by marketmen.
FIIs pour $2 bn in January; flows into India equity funds hit 54-week high; doubts on sustainability persist.
BHEL, YES Bank, RCom, Titan Ind, JP Associates, BF Utilities, Ruchi Soya and Punj Lloyd have tanked more than 10% each on BSE.
This comes a couple of days after activists of the Sena's student's wing, Bharatiya Vidyarthi Sena, targeted establishments that still have Bombay in their names, including the city's prestigious school, Bombay Scottish, a Bombay Dyeing showroom and offices of The Times of India, whose city supplement is called Bombay Times. Senior Sena leaders on Tuesday held a protest outside PJ Towers on Dalal Street and threatened further action if their demand was not met.
Even as foreign institutional investors rapidly pull out their money from Dalal Street, Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's second largest, is set to invest $2 billion in Indian stocks.
It is not only Mumbai's Dalal Street that is witnessing firecrackers on its skies in the run-up to Diwali, markets across the world tend to soar higher during the festival days -- be it Christmas in the United States or the Rio festival in Brazil.\n
The CSE is a novel concept created by the students of Indian Institue of Management-Ahmedabad and IIT-Roorkee that allows cricket-crazy fans to trade virtual stocks of their favourite players online.
'Only four or five original companies remain; the rest have been replaced every decade as sectors evolve or leadership shifts.' 'Companies that fail to adapt -- like many textile mills from the 1970s and shipping firms from the 1980s -- disappear.' 'Benchmark indices reward those who reinvent themselves in line with economic demands.'
Glimpses of the celebrations as the BSE Sensex on Friday crossed the 60,000 mark for the first time.
A fire broke out on Friday at the eighth floor of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building at Dalal Street in South Mumbai, fire officials said.No casualties have been reported so far, they added.
Managing director and CEO of BSE Institute, Ambarish Datta, explains why courses offered by it are valuable and why those doing these courses stand a better chance in the job market.
Investors on Dalal Street seem to have nothing to fear as over 228 scrips on Wednesday surged to their upper circuit levels, even as the benchmark index Sensex had plunged 10 per cent to touch its lower limit in the morning trade. As per the data available on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 228 scrips across all groups touched their upper circuit limit, representing the cap on the upward movements, while just 132 stocks touched their floor limit.
The total wealth, measured in terms of cumulative market capitalisation of all the listed companies on the Bombay Stock Exchange, has surged to a high of Rs 60,74,290.48 crore (Rs 6,0742.9 billion), the latest data available with the bourse shows.
China now world's second largest share market, India is 7th
You cannot sow today and reap tomorrow.
'For 40 years, India valued only technical skills. IITs, coding -- that became everything.' 'Soft skills were sidelined. But those are the skills that will keep you employable now, not technical skills.'
The insatiable greed for money and power is too large, too repugnant to thwart. And no one epitomised that better than Harshad Mehta, notes Dhruv Munjal.
Government-owned companies are more generous in rewarding their shareholders with dividends.
Reports have suggested Rs 400-650 as the possible IPO price
Despite headwinds, it remains "structurally bullish" on India and expects the Sensex to scale up to the 70,000-mark by December 2022; 80,000 level in a bull-case scenario and hover around the 50,000-mark as a bear-case, the brokerage house said in a report.
Experts expect the trend to continue in the near term.
Faster account opening, which allows investors to start trading without ever leaving their homes or visiting a physical branch of their local brokerage has played a role in the surge.
Radhakishan Damani is the only billionaire to see his wealth grow by around 20% during the lockdown.
'We saw people tripping over each other, running, screaming.' 'You could see people running with their daily briefcase despite suffering deep cuts and blood pouring from them.'
Positive cues from the global market front aided the rally.
'I hate people who do such things.' 'The person who bullied me should be ashamed because he tortured other people too.'
Nikhil Lakshman remembers the times he spent with the legendary writer who passed into the ages six days before his 86th birthday.
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