FII investments, movement of rupee against dollar and crude oil to influence trading
Rupee hits new low at close against dollar.
Markets at close: Sensex ends in green; Nifty rises to new closing peak.
Xiaomi easily broke their record from the same event last year.
More than a week after state-owned oil firms ended a 19-day pre-Karnataka poll hiatus on revising fuel prices, petrol and diesel rates have touched record highs.
And if there are so many opportunities, why haven't they invested in them, asks Debashis Basu.
Stocks of companies where promoters have pledged a high percentage of shares, like the Zee group, can be volatile. Such stocks are also prone to rumours, reports Sanjay Kumar Singh.
Rupee movement, global cues key for stocks this week: Experts
On the macro front, market participants will closely watch the FY'15 fiscal deficit target
'Good economics isn't necessarily bad politics, or vice versa,' says Shekhar Gupta.
There's a 13 per cent increase over last year, in an effort to put its flagging revenues back on track.
The NSE Nifty, comprising 50 shares, breached the 8,300-mark for the first time to hit a new lifetime high of 8,330.75.
The RBI fixed the reference rate for the dollar at 64.1505 and for the euro at 72.2720.
'Tax cuts will have only marginal effects in the short run and significant positive effects in the medium term,' says Shankar Acharya, former chief economic adviser to the Government of India.
Govt should take steps to monetise real estate investment schemes.
'If you ask India's finest business leaders, they now tell you -- in whispers, of course -- that the mood has never been so glum after 1991,' says Shekhar Gupta.
There was virtually no incremental equity investment by Tata Sons during Mistry's first two years
Typically these are high-beta stocks and earnings are volatile
The negative aspect about the Budget is that the capital expenditure has been marginally cut to achieve the fiscal deficit target assumptions, and the onus of sustaining investment demand till private capex revives continues to vest with the public sector enterprises, notes Jyotivardhan Jaipuria.
Indian benchmark indices may witness bouts of volatility this week as traders roll over positions in the derivative segment on expiry of near-month contracts, say experts.
The rating outlook change is relevant now, as the US Federal Reserve is set to end its monthly bond-buying programme in October.
'If such inflows materialise, what will be the effect on the rupee's value -- and therefore on exports growth, the only sustainable path to recovery?', asks Mihir S Sharma.
The bigger worry is that its effects could linger well into the next financial year.
Global expansion to drive the company's fortunes
'That Modi and the BJP can continue to treat the rising and expanding middle class this way shows that they have gamed its mind quite perfectly,' argues Shekhar Gupta.
From Alto to Audi, get car discounts of up to Rs 900,000
Group Captain Murli Menon (retd) reveals how India can neutralise the Pakistan air force's combat capabilities without firing a shot.
'If anything, he is a fiscal hawk.' 'He has avoided fiscal profligacy completely for the past four years.' 'The fiscal deficits since 2014 are clear proof of this.' 'The point is not that it is not 3 per cent yet; it is that it is not 6, 7 or 8 per cent, which it could easily have been.' 'For this he needs to be congratulated.' 'He has recognised it no longer pays to spend other people's money to win elections,' points out T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
The stock fell by 24.5 per cent to its 52-week low level of Rs 111.25 in opening trade at the BSE.
Tech major's shareholders will receive total dividend of Rs 15,474 crore in FY15
We could be on the brink if our export industries actually start losing jobs, says Shreekant Sambrani.
'Only the coming years will tell whether the government finds this an easy way of relieving itself from its fiscal constraints.'
The S&P BSE Sensex slipped 305 points to end at 25,400 and the Nifty50 dropped 87 points at 7,783.
If oil prices stay at their new level of $72 or drop further, India will be in the happy position next year of enjoying a surplus on the trade account.
The Sensex ended up 244 points at 28,504 on strong global cues.
The ban on liquor advertising is an example of policy hypocrisy at play.
The Swiss National Bank, the country's central banking authority, has estimated the funds currently held by Indians in Swiss banks at a mere $1.98 billion. Fear of disclosure due to greater scrutiny of this illicit wealth has played the main role in the flight of capital.
The finance minister hiked the total defence expenditure from Rs 203,672 crore in FY 2013-2014 to Rs 229,000 crore for FY 2014-2015. Though the increase appears substantial, it is insufficient to undertake the military modernisation necessary to meet the emerging threats, feels Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
A vilification campaign against Rosneft has begun in right earnest, says M K Bhadrakumar.
Markets end in green with auto, banks on a steady climb.
