Financial shares were among the top Sensex gainers along with auto and pharma shares.
The buyout will cost LIC about Rs 100 billion, based on the Rs 248 billion market capitalisation of IDBI Bank as on Friday, and assuming it acquires a 40 per cent equity stake from the government.
The combined assets of the top five - Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys Technologies, Wipro, HCL Technologies and Tech Mahindra were down one per cent to Rs 27,7400 crore at the end of 2017-18, from Rs 28,0100 crore a year before.
FMCG has been behaving unlike a defensive category in recent quarters.
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Government has forecast annual economic growth to rise to 7.4%.
Total net debt-equity ratio improves for third consecutive year, while investment in new projects hits a 10-year low, says Krishna Kant.
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The benchmark Sensex companies' underlying earnings per share are down 3 per cent (on a cumulative basis) since January 2015, against 25 per cent rise in the index value during the period
Equity markets in Pakistan and Bangladesh are tiny compared to the market capitalisation of the Indian equity market.
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%.
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.
Experts say it will now be tough for the Modi government to catch up with the UPA's economic record owing to the shock induced by the currency demonetisation.
It is the fundamentals of companies that will drive stock performance.
India on track to be third largest consumer economy by 2025.
Rising oil prices and diminishing cash pile to limit capacity in 2018-19
Further outperformance hinges on pickup in industrial activity, buying by local investors.
A fall presents an opportunity to buy rate-sensitive stocks.
12 out of 21 public sector banks reported declines in their loan books in the last financial year against seven such banks in 2015-16 and none in 2013-14.
FIIs accumulated India's top-listed companies at an average valuation of around 16 times.
A financial turnaround in Tata Steel and Tata Motors has come as a shot in the arm for Chandra.
After years of losing money on two of the group's biggest bets - global steel business and domestic passenger cars - there are strong signs of a revival in both businesses.
The outcome is beyond the market's expectation and will be a sentimental boost, say analysts.
Ricoh India, the largest gainer among these pack, has rallied 192 per cent from Rs 294 to Rs 859 on the BSE so far in the current calendar year.
Analysts expect the indices to dip further if the global macros do not stabilise
FY16 saw the highest number of new product launches in a year from Maruti
The markets had been on an upward trajectory since August 2013.
Home and kitchen appliances, electronic products, apparel and B-segment cars stand to gain.
Softening rural consumption and the likelihood of weak corporate earnings in the March quarter saw investors dump stocks.
Government-owned companies are more generous in rewarding their shareholders with dividends.
The S&P BSE Sensex has dipped five per cent, thus far, in CY15.
The gap between Nifty's price-earnings multiple and economic growth is at a 12-year high
Direct investors should stagger their investments over 1-2 months.
Earnings spread for foreign investors down to 10-year low of 1.1 per cent, from 2 per cent at the beginning of the year and record high of nearly 5 per cent in 2013
Did top Indian business groups miss the e-commerce opportunity by focusing on replicating the Walmart model instead of following the Amazon model of online shopping?
The sentiment around Indian equities remains positive and unchanged.
Sensex,Nifty to remain under pressure through the week.
