Wiping off nearly Rs 4 lakh crore of investors' wealth during the day, benchmark Sensex crashed on Friday.
Markets recovered in late trades, amid firm European cues, led by rebound in financials and gains in IT shares.
The comments assume significance in view of the charges faced by HSBC
The wide-based NSE sensitive index is currently hovering around 7,900.
Insufficient rainfall will have a negative impact on the economy.
Investors were focussed on the RBI's monetary policy review on Tuesday which will give an insight into its inflation and rates outlook.
Over lunch, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley breaks down his Budget. Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com reports.
Domestic airlines expect the fall in prices of aviation fuel to boost their earnings from the quarter ending December.
The financial and commodity markets will continue to roil, as China's growth moderates and readjustments are made.
Mop-up misses target as big FIIs skip issue.
According to the global financial services major, FIIs have recouped around 25 per cent of the outflows seen over the June-August period, when the country witnessed its sharpest bout of FII outflows since the global financial crisis.
While the number of international MF schemes is increasing, so is the confusion for investors.
Beyond the macro data, there has been little enquiry into the profile of the indebted farmer households, says Shailesh Dobhal.
The long-term sustainability of the ongoing market rally is difficult as earnings growth remains a challenge, says Herald Van Der Linde, head of equity strategy, Asia-Pacific, at HSBC.
Expenditure cuts necessitated by slowing revenue growth, weak industrial activity worrisome portents
Analysts say markets to be impacted by monsoon, inflation trajectory.
The introduction of GST would constitute India's biggest reform.
Maruti Suzuki India is facing stiff resistance from private sector mutual funds and insurance companies, which own almost 7 per cent of the company, for its decision to allow Suzuki to make cars for the Indian car-maker at a proposed plant in Gujarat instead of manufacturing vehicles itself.
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Bank has cited trend of global easing and weak growth
The Rs 63,000-cr Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed corridor and Rs 14,000-cr CSTM-Panvel suburban corridor are two of the largest projects.
Markets hope the Budget will steer spending towards infrastructure.
EPFO manages a huge corpus of over Rs 6 lakh crore (Rs 6 trillion).
Sebi's new FPI regulation has helped attract new capital pool, up registrations.
India's manufacturing sector witnessed a modest growth in May, but going ahead "weak demand conditions" may persist.
'The difference between black money in India and the black money out of India is, in India, it is tax evaded money and Indian money outside India is not only tax evaded money, but money which has been taken out of India's capital resources needed for India. So it is not only tax evasion, but treason too.'
In the past, several other Indian nationals have been named in such notifications after the Swiss FTA was approached by Indian authorities for information about those people with regard to the pending tax-related probes against them.
The 30-share Sensex ended down 35 points at 26,349 and the 50-share Nifty ended down 20 points at 7,864.
These include Goldman Sachs, HSBC, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, RBS, Citigroup and JP Morgan and they have said in their respective regulatory filings that they are cooperating with the relevant authorities in the investigations.
A gradual weakening of the rupee, however, may add to inflationary pressures.
Some type of global shock adds to the allure of the dollar.
At the close, the 50-share NSE Nifty was at 8,611.15, up 19.90 points, or 0.23 per cent, after moving between 8,637.15 and 8,555.20.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the magnitude of the alleged black money transfer through state-owned BoB will only be known after completion of the multi-disciplinary probe.
Investor sentiment got a boost following remarks from the Russian President Putin that allayed fears of an imminent military conflict in Ukraine
The muted CPI inflation print at 5% earlier this week, followed by a similar WPI number released Wednesday, seems to have spurred India's central bank into action, is how the economists are reading into Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan's 25 basis point cut in repo rate.
Analystsare showing optimism in Sensex EPS growth after double digit growth in the second quarter of current year.
Reports by CAG earlier on the 2008 telecom licence scam had resulted in the cancellation of 122 licences.
JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley, as well as Britain's Asia-focused Standard Chartered said they would try to support London's financial sector
Share rises further to 73 per cent from 66 per cent last year; Some overseas i-banks seen scaling down operations
The Budget loosened the reins on public spending to drive growth.
Pune saw the fastest growth in terms of number of super-rich people.
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