Coal India was the biggest gainer on both Sensex and Nifty
The S&P BSE Sensex dropped 207 points to end at 25,230.
Small- and mid-cap stocks continued facing selling pressure due to stretched valuations.
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.
Product launches to drive incremental volume growth for players such as Maruti Suzuki; medium and heavy commercial vehicle revival on track.
Sun Pharma was the biggest gainer in the Sensex pack, advancing 1.79 per cent.
Bajaj Auto's margins are expected to expand 100 basis points, as volumes have recovered.
Anand Sharma working tirelessly for extension of tax breaks that expired on March 31, 2010.
The MFN (Most Favoured Nation, meaning non-discriminatory treatment for each other) issue is of prime importance to India, as it wants to have greater access in the Pakistani markets.
A series of flip-flop on policies and a non-existent charging infrastructure are the biggest challenge in achieving the target of selling 6-7 million hybrid and electric vehicles by 2020.
Financial shares were the top losers.
The challenges of transition to stricter emission norm BS-VI from BS-IV and compliance to new safety norms thereby making vehicles costlier are lurking around the sector.
Analysts worry about possible loan waiver.
Top companies added employees at 3% CAGR from 2003-04 to 2013-14, while revenues grew at 18%.
Persistent capital inflows by domestic institutional investors and retail investors kept the markets in fine nick
IT sector replaces auto sector after a 6-month gap.
Higher input cost is likely to weigh on Auto sector's Q4 numbers.
Analystsare showing optimism in Sensex EPS growth after double digit growth in the second quarter of current year.
But the 30-share Sensex rose by 141.52 points, or 0.41 per cent, to close at 34,297.47. The broader NSE Nifty gained 44.60- points, or 0.42 per cent, to end at 10,545.50 after touching a high of 10,618.10.
It was the second straight week of gains for the benchmarks.
He said Bajaj Auto is a small company and it is wasteful to create expensive concepts
Analysts expect Bajaj Auto to perform well in Q1.
The Mumbai-based brokerage has constructed India Family Firm Index out of listed companies.
The 50-issue NSE Nifty too cracked the 10,200-mark and hit a low of 10,108.55 before finishing 104.75 points, or 1.02 per cent down at 10,121.80.
Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Mahindra and Toyota reported low single-digit sales growth for the month owing to weak market sentiment
Muted quarterly earnings, mixed cues from global markets and unabated foreign fund outflows added to the volatility
The 50-stock NSE barometer Nifty finished 22.50 points, or 0.21 per cent, down at 10,526.20
The broader NSE Nifty too fell below the 10,100 level by dropping 100.10 points to end at 10,094.25
Shiv Kapur, who could be one of the lucky few to get a chance to play with Tiger Woods on his private visit to India, feels the World's No. 1 golfer's coming to the country would make a huge impact.
The BSE Sensex zoomed 318 points to end at 33,351.57, while the broader Nifty spurted 88 points to 10,242.65.
The incidence of shareholder activism in India is more than that in other Asian countries, according to a BNP Paribas Asia Strategy report.
Markets ended in red, index heavyweights drag.
Automobile sector accounts for the third-highest equity mutual fund contributions.
Out of 30 Sensex shares, 19 ended lower while 11 gained
Gains in key IT, capital goods, healthcare and metal stocks, after consistent buying by domestic and foreign investors, helped both the key indices to scale new peaks.
Sony eyes a 2 billion payoff from telecasting the Fifa World Cup.
Most Asian stock markets steadied on Wednesday.
Maruti's sales of the compact segment comprising Swift, Estilo, Ritz, Dzire and Baleno went up by 9.9% to 45,579 units
Global cues lift Sensex 364 points; Nifty ends above 8,650.
Stocks and sectors impacted most by GST.
