The government is scheduled to release index of industrial growth for November and consumer price inflation for December later today.
Broad-based buying aided sentiment and the market registers record turnover at Rs 6.86 lakh crore
Trade union leaders claimed that the strike would be even bigger than the one last year as the number of striking workers is expected to swell to 18 crore
Foreign institutional investors were net buyers in Indian equities worth Rs 277.92 crore on Tuesday
The 30-share Sensex and the 50-share Nifty ended flat at the mark of 27,403 and 8,248 respectively.
Sensex was up 184 points at 25,580 and the Nifty added 71 points to end the day at 7,654
Sensex ends in green on boost from bluechip stocks.
Markets across the globe are rallying on hopes that the US Federal Reserve won't lift interest rates until 2016.
BHEL down around 2.4% and Bharti Airtel down around 1.6% were other major losers.
According to Merrill Lynch (BofA-ML) report, Domestic capital markets are likely to remain volatile in the September-November period due to factors like US Fed's policy action, second quarter corporate earnings and Bihar state elections.
Custodian banks are selling dollars for their foreign fund clients.
The Indian rupee also trimmed most of its early gains and was trading at Rs 61.28 compared to its Wednesday's close of Rs 61.31 to the US dollar.
Capital goods, IT, auto and pharmaceuticals lead gains for the financial year
Both the countries have increased prices of gas recently.
Pakistan's demand for gas stands at 8 billion cubic feet while the current production is 4 billion cubic feet.
Sectors such as Auto, Banks, Capital Goods, FMCG, Metal, Oil & Gas and Power are trading marginally lower.
The 30-share Sensex ended down 208 points at 27,057 and the 50-share Nifty closed 59 points lower at 8,094.
Sensex firm on favourable GDP numbers for FY16.
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The 30-share Sensex ended 117 points higher at 26,560 and the 50-share Nifty gained 31 points to end at 7,936.
The broader markets underperformed benchmark indices as the BSE Mid-cap and Small-cap tumbled over 2%.
The 30-share Sensex is up 253 points at 29,263 and the 50-share Nifty has gained 68 points at 8,829.
Index heavyweights Reliance Industries, HDFC and Infosys were the top Sensex gainers.
Sensex gained over 100 points and ended at 26147.33 while the Nifty ended 27 points higher at 7,795.75.
Market breadth was weak with 1,260 advances and 1,597 losers on the BSE.
Sensex ended up 11 points at 25,561 and the 50-share Nifty gained 16 points to end at 7,640.
ONGC, Sesa Sterlite, Tata Steel, RIL and HDFC emerged as the biggest losers
Senior Executive Director & Co Head (Strategy) of Kotak Institutional Equities Sanjiv Prasad tells Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com that even if there are a number of challenges facing the Indian equity markets, there are certain sectors that offer a ray of hope.
Sensex falls at close; metals, banks perform well.
The amount is around a fifth of the cumulative investment in fixed assets by these companies.
Nifty ends above 8,400; TCS, HDFC surge 2%, Bajaj Auto dips 2%.
BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices ended in line with their larger counterparts and closed marginally up 0.2% and 0.4%, each
The broader markets also ended lower in line with the benchmark indices
Sensex plunges 322.39 points to over 1-month closing low of 27,797.01; Nifty tumbles 97.55 points to 8,340.70.
According to a new subsidy sharing formula, the payout of upstream oil producers like ONGC is to be reduced to the extent of Rs 4,500 per tonne oil development cess they pay to the government, sources privy to the development said.
The rape of a young woman in New Delhi by Uber cab driver has raised the disturbing question of women's safety all over again.
Five of the 12 BSE sectoral indices ended at 52-week highs; the oil and gas index zoomed by nearly 5%.
Experts prefer domestic consumption-driven plays and defensives such as information technology and pharmaceuticals
BSE Realty index zoomed by almost 7% followed by counters like Metal, Oil & Gas, Auto, Banks, Auto, Healthcare and Power, all surging between 1-5%.
The Sensex was up 70 points and the Nifty was up 20 points led by SBI on robust Q2 earnings.
On the last day of FY!5, the Sensex ended lower by 18.37 points at 27,957.49.
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