First, there has been a significant softening in commodity prices - most notably oil.
Markets end in red; bluechips struggle to keep pace.
India is a $180-billion automobile market, including vehicles and services. Of this, only $1 billion is online.
And why markets could give up 25 per cent of all these gains made since March 2020
India's gross domestic product growth rate slipped to 7%.
'Let the high price of onions clear the market, matching supply with demand.' 'Let onion growers keep exporting -- we are the world's largest onion exporter, export 10% of our production,' advises Naushad Forbes.
Revenues of Indian companies, excluding those engaged in banking and oil, are expected to grow marginally at 5-6 per cent in the first quarter of this fiscal.
Experts advise investors to buy at lower levels in the next few months and sell at the higher end of their range in the second half, reports Rajesh Bhayani.
'This announcement is big foolishness.' 'The government has no idea of economics. They are just announcing what comes to their mind.' 'Let them implement what they have announced and just see what will happen in two years.'
The finance ministry has short listed 11 PSUs for a possible buyback of shares in the ongoing financial year
Nearly half of the 20 indexes polled globally are now expected to end the year lower than where they started
Markets across the globe are rallying on hopes that the US Federal Reserve won't lift interest rates until 2016.
FPIs sold shares worth a net Rs 1236.95 crore on Friday.
Double whammy for consumer firms, where the top line will remain subdued due to demonetisation and margins will squeeze owing to a crude oil spike and rupee depreciation, reports Viveat Susan Pinto/Business Standard from Mumbai.
The rise in India Inc's market value was led by asset-light firms.
India's fortunes will start reviving by 2018 when it will be at the ninth position, followed by fourth in 2023, before grabbing the third spot in 2028.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your stock market queries.
'If the mandis were not working in Delhi, or the onion market in Nashik got affected, or there were disruptions because of unloading or loading in any sector in south India, we intervened.'
Global brokerage firm CLSA is positive on India's growth stroy.
The combined share of customs and excise duties, service tax, and value-added tax in India's gross domestic product reached an all-time high of 10.5%.
'Since the bilateral deficit is a reality -- and a worry -- we need to find a way to deal with it,' says Ravi Bhoothalingam.
Nothing is going to dramatically open up on May 3. There will be too many ifs and buts and terms and conditions and guidelines in leading one's life in various zones, reveals Sheela Bhatt.
Contrarian stocks can help investors generate much higher returns than buying shares of companies that have shown consistent high growth for years.
Risk-averse investors can hold up to 10 per cent of their portfolio in gold, while aggressive ones can keep five per cent.
With fuel being the main input cost for the transport sector, rise in cost of operations is a given. The sector is unsure on the extent of being able to pass this on through rentals or to absorb it with higher volumes.
Emerging markets facing 5th year of slow growth: World Bank.
In the past 12 months, such earnings have grown in double digits in Europe, the US, Japan and South Korea.
Moody's said domestic growth will offset global headwinds.
India remains one of the most over-owned market in Asia.
A day after global brokerage firm Macquarie painted a rosy picture of the Indian economy and raised its target level for the stock indices for the next 12 months, Goldman Sachs said India is set to overtake China and become the fastest-growing emerging market during 2016-18.
In the coming weeks prices are expected to further cool down as new crop from Karnataka has started coming into the market.
The GST Council, headed by Jaitley and comprising representatives of all the states, is scheduled to meet in Srinagar on May 18-19 to finalise tax rates on different goods and services after unifying at least 10 indirect taxes into the Goods and Services Tax.
To give relief to Delhiites, the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd has started selling onions at Rs 55 a kg through its five retail outlets and two mobile vans in the national capital.
Bank Nifty pared all its intraday gains to end over 1% lower led by losses in BoB, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank and Bank of India
Quite a few large- and mid-cap stocks are yet to recover from the note ban, pharma, banking and rural demand-based industries among laggards.
The year 2015 may well turn out to be a watershed in global macroeconomic adjustment.
Investors booked profit ahead of the outcome of the two-day US Fed policy meet which begins today.
Hassan Rouhani to offer Friday prayers in Hyderabad's Mecca Masjid.
The bourse's valuations may get a boost, as it gets set for its OFS of about Rs 10,000 crore.
Albanese, 56, will take the helm on April 1.
