Analysts said FIIs had created long positions worth Rs 9,700 crore (Rs 97 billion) in index futures till recently.
Policymakers stepped in late Thursday to calm markets.
A gradual increase works best for the US, as well as global markets, says Nizam Idris managing director, head of strategy (fixed income and currencies), Macquarie Bank.
HDFC Bank has ensured that no bank will be able to match them in the near future without bleeding on margins.
Experts suggest domestic factors rather than the Greece crisis would determine the course of the Indian equities.
Last month, the US Food and Drugs Administration had placed Wockhardt's facilities in Waluj near Aurangabad on import alert, barring supply of various products from these facilities to the US.
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Singapore will be counting on its marquee Formula One race to help make up for a 30 percent drop in Chinese tourists this year.
The top gainers on the Sensex were Cipla, Bharti Airtel, Maruti Suzuki, Hero Moto & Sesa Sterlite.
Higher growth justifies current run-up, say experts.
The rupee resumed lower at 61.15 per dollar as against the last closing level of 60.77 per dollar yesterday at the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) Market and dropped further to 61.44 per dollar before quoting at 61.40 per dollar at 1045 hours.
Better margins, lower interest outgo could see the company turn profitable in FY15.
The S&P BSE Sensex has rallied about 28 per cent in 2014, after formation of a stable government at the Centre.
Global markets could correct 5-10 per cent. If that happens, Indian markets will correct about 10 per cent
With commodity markets remaining soft and uncertain, it is likely the money will flow into equity markets with strong upsides, such as India.
The Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs has approved a hike in gas prices from April 2014.
Viom Networks is planning to raise arouns Rs 1500 crore (Rs 15 billion) and is likely to list its shares on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), say sources.
Reliance Industries and ONGC were down 4-6% each contributing the most to the Sensex losses
The real benefits can be seen when prices stabilise, preferably at levels acceptable to both consumers and producers.
Here are 10 global and domestic factors.
Of the 11 licence holders, only eight remain in the fray as concerns about profitability and rising competition are making them think twice before jumping in.
In the long run, the decision could bring clearer rules to a sector that has failed to provide India with enough power because it has been so hamstrung by confusion and scandals over concessions allegedly handed to government cronies.
Chinese govt has itself to blame for first trying to slow down the property market and later propping it up.
While the government had in June approved a new formula for pricing of all domestically produced natural gas, the Cabinet yesterday allowed the same principles to also be applied to Reliance Industries' currently producing fields in KG-D6 block subject to certain conditions.
Former skippers Ian Chappell and Mark Taylor feel next week's first Test between India and Australia in Brisbane should go ahead as it would help the cricketers and the fans to come out and share the mourning of the loss of Phillip Hughes.
Mark Zuckerberg, the 29-year old chief executive who co-founded Facebook in his Harvard dorm room, said the company was beginning to reap the benefit of investments to retool certain products.
The once-powerful Japanese major is left with little to show in the face of sustained competition from rivals.
Shedding its gains from Monday, NIkkei has declined around 0.7% while Hang Seng and Shanghai Composite were trading marginally lower.
Most experts said indices would open higher on Monday and rally might sustain for a few sessions
Another year of strong performance by these export-oriented sectors likely as US economy revives and rupee is expected to be under pressure.
And when an inspector asked about the contents of unlabelled vials in the laboratory glassware washing area, a plant worker dumped them down a sink and said the contents could not be determined, according to a July 18 letter from the US Food and Drug Administration to Wockhardt, which makes sterile injectable drugs and various forms of insulin.
India Inc has few leaders who are likely to grab headlines in 2015.