'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
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.
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.
India's gross domestic product growth rate slipped to 7%.
'Since the bilateral deficit is a reality -- and a worry -- we need to find a way to deal with it,' says Ravi Bhoothalingam.
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.
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.
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.
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%.
The rise in India Inc's market value was led by asset-light firms.
Contrarian stocks can help investors generate much higher returns than buying shares of companies that have shown consistent high growth for years.
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.
Global brokerage firm CLSA is positive on India's growth stroy.
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.
Risk-averse investors can hold up to 10 per cent of their portfolio in gold, while aggressive ones can keep five per cent.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Hassan Rouhani to offer Friday prayers in Hyderabad's Mecca Masjid.
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.
The bourse's valuations may get a boost, as it gets set for its OFS of about Rs 10,000 crore.
Long-term investors can stay put in the markets, but should brace for volatility
The global financial services major had earlier said that the central bank would keep its policy rates on hold.
Albanese, 56, will take the helm on April 1.
The BSE Sensex moved up 103 points to 35,319.35, while the wider NSE Nifty finished at 10,741.70, up 23.90 points.
Traders say prices will remain elevated due to increased demand, lower availability
It reported a loss of Rs 36 crore (Rs 360 million), the first such negative result in 10 years.
Experts prefer domestic consumption-driven plays and defensives such as information technology and pharmaceuticals
Investors booked profits in range-bound trade, led by PSU, oil & gas, energy, infrastructure, telecom, realty, healthcare, bankex, FMCG, capital goods and power counters.
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