India has moved up 16 positions to rank 55th on a global index of the world's most competitive economies, where Switzerland remains on top.
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Shedding its gains from Monday, NIkkei has declined around 0.7% while Hang Seng and Shanghai Composite were trading marginally lower.
In India we have to be careful not to copy any level of dependence on the financial sector and infatuation with the get-rich-quick syndrome, says Jaimini Bhagwati.
Sensex may remain under pressure this week due to weak global factors.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
Emerging markets and Asia may be first in the firing line
Mark Mobius, executive chairman, Templeton Emerging Markets Group, is positive on India and believes the Indian economy is on a strong footing
Sensex was up 184 points at 25,580 and the Nifty added 71 points to end the day at 7,654
'Experts are not ruling out further pain as global factors cannot insulate India from the aftermath.'
Custodian banks are selling dollars for their foreign fund clients.
It's easy to say investors should focus on fundamentals but this risk can have a significant and lasting impact
Financials were among the top losers along with Sun Pharma and index heavyweight Reliance Industries
Markets ended at record closing highs for the second day in a row on institutional buying.
Formula One faces its biggest shake-up in decades with the announcement on Wednesday that US cable TV mogul John Malone's Liberty Media has agreed to take control of the cash-generating glamour sport.
During deleveraging the income falls more than reduction in debt due to the austerity measures.
'The government must keep bad news out of the newspapers. If you have news about a fight everyday, it is not a climate where investment takes place.'
Inflation is down and there's every chance that crude prices will be subdued through the next year.
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ITC, Infosys, Wipro and HDFC Bank among the major losers.
Shankar Acharya gives ten predictions on key politico-economic developments in the world and ten for India.
Broader markets underperformed the benchmark indices with BSE Midcap and Smallcap indces slipping 0.8%-1.1%
Roadshows will be held in Singapore, Hong Kong, London, New York and Boston, NTPC gained close to 1%.
Nifty is likely to remain under selling pressure unless and until it breach the 7,700-7,720 levels on closing basis.
While information technology companies will benefit, firms with high foreign borrowings or heavy dependence on imports will be hurt.
2016 is difficult to predict, and this uncertainty will drive volatility in global markets.
While the UK will possibly go into recession, the bigger fear is copycat referendums from other EU nations.
In dollar terms, however, gold prices jumped by 26 per cent this calendar year, following sharp jump in hedge funds' long position
Analysts expect global markets to remain in consolidation mode with a negative bias over the next six months.
Besides Budget, markets will be driven by global events and the outcome of assembly elections.
'The market position from here on is expected to go up'.
Tehran plans to lift exports by 500,000 barrels per day
Sensex ended up 190 points at 25,519 and Nifty climbed 57 points to end at 7,626.
The S&P BSE Sensex shed 286 points to close at 24,539 and the Nifty50 lost 100 points to end at 7,456.
Many investors clearly think they can play this game.
Markets surged in late trades to snap five-day losing streak led by bank shares.
Indian indices have hit all-time highs in the New Year and the sentiment remains strong. All valuations are also at extremely high levels, cautions Devangshu Datta
Reliance chairman Mukesh Ambani has moved 2 ranks ahead this year on the most powerful list.
In the World Bank's rankings on the "Ease of Doing Business" India stands at 139 out of 189 economies surveyed in 2014; its position has in fact dropped from 131 last year.
A combination of externalities such as global trade wars and slowing growth, continuing glitches in accessing offsets under the GST regime, which has created a liquidity crunch for smaller exporters, and the growing competitiveness of smaller countries are causing the slowdown.
The 30-share Sensex ended up 248 points at a record closing high of 27,346.
'Even if such a thing happens, it will not prolong for many days like Doklam did.' 'That is because both the leaders do not want it.'
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