Sectoral performance was mixed with media and PSU banking stocks attracting buyer interest and healthcare, FMCG and metal stocks bearing the brunt of the bears
Top gainers among the S&P BSE Sensex include GAIL, Dr Reddy's Laboratories and Bharti Airtel, all edging up by 1% in late morning deals
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.
Sensex, Nifty end the day in red ahaead of F&O expiry.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Move could be aimed at integrating operations with Indian subsidiary.
The second day of the placement season at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Madras on Tuesday saw e-commerce major Flipkart Internet Pvt Ltd recruiting 19 students - the highest offer so far this season.
Tapas Bose from Kolkata sent us this interesting story about his Rajdoot 175cc.
Hind Lever Chemicals is considering merging with Tata Chemicals Ltd, the Bombay Stock Exchange said on Wednesday.
Oil & gas, banking and pharma sector stocks stole the show
However, RIL has exceeded the mandatory 2% prescribed limit, spending the maximum amount of Rs 761 crore
The broader Nifty of National Stock Exchange scaled the 10,200 mark intra day before closing at 10,184.85, showing a sizeable gain of 38.30 points, or 0.38 per cent.
Compared to their Indian peers, MNCs have higher return ratios.
Hindustan Lever Ltd, the consumer goods behemoth, is realigning its strategy by entering new retail hotspots such as malls and multiplexes in a big way.
The 50-share NSE Nifty was trading lower by 24 points.
In a major organisational revamp, Hindustan Lever Ltd chairman M S Banga was concurrently appointed the business group president of Unilever's
Tata Steel was the day's worst performer in the Sensex pack, plunging 3.25 per cent, followed by Bharti Airtel at 3.05 per cent.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries
Unilever president (Asia & Africa) Harish Manwani is to succeed M S Banga as the non-executive chairman of Hindustan Lever Ltd.
Markets rebound with financials leading the gains on hopes of a peaceful solution to the turmoil in Ukraine
The 30-share Sensex ended up 214 points at 27,890 and the 50-share Nifty closed up 52 points at 8,430.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
The broad-based NSE Nifty rose 52.80 points, or 0.50 per cent, to end at 10,530.70
The 30-share Sensex ended up 165 points at 29,044 and the 50-share Nifty gained 54 points to close at 8,834.
The 30-share Sensex ended down 604 points at 28,845 and the 50-share Nifty ended down 181 points at 8,757. The Bank Nifty ended down 602 points at 19,146.
Rebound in IT majors TCS and Infosys in late trades helped markets end higher.
Fresh buying by domestic institutional investors and better-than-expected June quarter results from some blue-chip companies boosted investor sentiment
Now with 13-14 million-tonne capacity, Nirma will emerge as a serious player in India's cement landscape.
Experts tell Ujjval Jauhari that investors need to be careful in picking stocks given high valuations and with markets possibly ignoring potential risks
Begin with ITC. Larsen & Toubro, yes. ICICI and HDFC, yes again.
Sensex dull at close, Infosys rules, ITC drags.
To stay in the race for the long term, the company has to innovate continuously - something that MNCs and some of the home-grown Indian firms have been doing successfully, says Sangeeta Tanwar.
Faced with a situation where the spouse's transferable job keeps taking the family to different locations, thus jeopardising their own careers, many women simply fall off their career track and resign themselves to relocation every time their husband gets transferred, says Sudha Menon.
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