Going by the current pace, IT firms are likely to exceed the manufacturing sector in salary payouts over the next five years.
Sensex ends 134.91 pts down at 28,709.87; Nifty falls 44.70 pts at 8,712.05.
Weak GDP data and unfaouvrable global data has pulled down Sensex, Nifty.
In an hour-long chat on rediff.com on Thursday, A K Prabhakar, senior VP and Head - Equity Research (Retail), Anand Rathi Financial Services Ltd, answered some important questions on the market.
The Nifty had hit its third successive record high of 7,922.70 today.
Cumulatively for the first two quarters till now, the advance tax collections from the Mumbai zone, which contributes over a third of the income tax collections nationally, have grown 11 per cent, the official said.
The sharp fall in the rupee's value against the dollar during the July-September quarter, it turns out, has come as a boon for corporate earnings.
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