The banks says that valuations are reasonable.
Kavitha Kuruganti has been fighting for decades to ensure farmers are respected and get their due from the Indian nation. In order to ensure they don't struggle for a living, she works to ensure sustainable farm livelihoods and farmers' rights.
Investor wealth shrunk due to markets crashing on Wednesday.
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A'Market valuation is another concern.'
'India is trading at steep valuations and there have been a number of IPOs, especially in the insurance sector, that have had an impact on secondary market liquidity.'
'Experts are not ruling out further pain as global factors cannot insulate India from the aftermath.'
Domestic tyre demand is seen to grow by 7-9 per cent over the next five years.
In dollar terms, however, gold prices jumped by 26 per cent this calendar year, following sharp jump in hedge funds' long position
HUL, the country's largest FMCG company, saw sales volume fall by 4% for the December quarter.
'The domestic scenario is much better than earlier, demonstrated in the March quarter earnings.'
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Sensex in green, JSW climbs higher.
After 3 weeks of consecutive rally, this week was a breather for the index, which corrected by almost 1.5%.
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'In macroeconomic policy, timing is all, and by leaving things too late, Mr Modi may have made around 50 seats in the Lok Sabha highly vulnerable,' says T C A Srinivasa Raghavan.
Sensex is under pressure due to concerns in the global market.
The rupee fell to a two-year low of 64.84 against the US dollar.
The S&P BSE Sensex plunged 301 points to close at 25,490 and the Nifty50 fell 86 points to end at 7,815.
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'It is not simply demonetisation or GST, it is this government's failure to manage the financial sector crisis.'
The fall in global prices resulted in a drastic decline in the Food Price Index compiled by the United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization. Based on the prices of a basket of internationally traded food commodities, the FAO Food Price Index averaged at 203.9 points in July, down 4.4 per cent (2.1 percentage point) from a revised value in June. This level was seen earlier in January, at 203.2 points.
Binu Alex, co-founder and editorial director of www.commodityonline.com, in an interview to Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com, says demand-supply imbalance arising out of the government's inability to preserve the crop for non-harvesting season is the root cause behind the price rise.
The S&P BSE Midcap and the S&P BSE Smallcap indices added 0.5% and 0.7%, respectively
Nearly two-thirds of India's gold demand comes from rural areas where jewellery is a traditional store of wealth for millions who have no access to the formal banking system.
Traders are closely watching the progress of the monsoon.
Profit booking in realty, oil and gas, capital goods, power and metal stocks pulled the index down to the day's low of 25,347.33 points.
The upcoming July derivatives expiry later in the week would also add some volatility to the market proceedings.
Dhawal Dalal, executive vice-president & head, fixed income, DSP BlackRock Investment Managers, expects the central bank to hold rates for the rest of calendar year 2016.
Sensex may remain under pressure this week due to weak global factors.
However, Beijing expresses readiness for talks to reopen the Nathu La pass for the Kailash-Mansarovar Yatra.
The Sensex will then rally further and end 2016 at 28,000, according to the median forecast of 50 analysts polled in the past week.
'Now, we have a minimum pension of Rs 1,000 annually.'
'A lot of people,' says India's Ambassador to the US, 'are struggling how to define this relationship.' Aziz Haniffa/Rediff.com reports from Washington, DC.
Midcap stocks continued to remain on buyers' radar with BSE Midcap index up 0.1%.
A market correction is a good time to reassess the quality of your portfolio and purge the poor quality names from it, says Ramesh Bukka
The American brokerage firm said it expects the rate cut to happen only in December if the monsoons normalise to cool down inflation or early 2015 in case prices rise prolongs.
The benchmark BSE Sensex reclaimed the 28,000 mark, spurting by 409 points or 1.4% at 28,114 and Nifty settled above the 8,500 mark at 8,532, gains of 111 points.
'India's economy is growing faster compared to the developed economies of the world.' 'More importantly, it is growing faster compared to most of the developing economies.' 'The monsoon is not the only thing that drives the rural economy and certainly not the national economy.' 'It is too simplistic to reduce everything to the monsoon.'
Most Asian markets were trading weak on Monday.
