BSE-IT, capital goods, banks, real-estate led gains.
The Bombay Stock Exchange and Foreign Exchange market will remain closed today due to a terrorist attack in Mumbai.
All principal markets including the Bombay Stock Exchange, the National Stock Exchange, foreign exchange, money, oils & oilseeds, metals, copra and cotton remained closed on Wednesday on account of Eid-Ul-Fitr.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has asked the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange to provide data of scrips traded on April 10 to analyse the reasons for the crash of the information technology scrips on that day.\n\n\n\n
In dollar terms, the Nifty has gained 26.7 per cent in this year, while the Sensex has advanced 25 per cent during the same period.
The Bombay Stock Exchange's 30-share Sensex closed at 18,401 up 405 points. The National Stock Exchange's 50-share S&P CNX Nifty closed at 5,409 up 124 points.
The National Stock Exchange listed the Dow Jones Industrial and S&P 500 on its platform last week.
Many companies, including Reliance Industries Ltd, have postponed their board meetings, scheduled for Wednesday, in view of the bandh called by Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party to protest on Monday's blast in Mumbai.
Investors may have to wait a little longer for Unified Payments Interface (UPI)-based block mechanism in the secondary market even as the market regulator has set the effective launch date as January 1, 2024. Several brokerage firms said they may take a few months more to implement it. Investors will be able to register for this facility only if the stock broker has opted for the UPI block facility.
The froth in the small and midcap (SMID) space is limited to a few pockets, but regulatory scrutiny could lead to sustained volatility, observe India's top-drawer wealth managers. They add that they have been advising clients to reduce their exposure to smallcaps. Anand Rathi Wealth, which manages investor wealth through mutual funds (MFs), reports that its exposure to smallcap stocks, both through MFs and directly, has decreased by nearly 7 percentage points in the past few months, now standing at 23 per cent.
Orders were executed at 9.15 am after initial order matching, while the markets will function as usual for other stocks.
BSE Metal and IT indices plummeted by almost 2%
Only 10 per cent of stocks account for 93 per cent of investments.
Exchange to launch mutual fund trading platform; BSE set to follow.
The special trading session would be conducted to pay obeisance to Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity.
Despite changes in rules, the exchange is not in a hurry
Asia's oldest bourse, Bombay Stock Exchange on Wednesday launched currency derivatives segment (BSE-CDX) that would enable participants to hedge their currency risks through trading in the US dollar-rupee future platform.
Hindustan Unilever on Tuesday reported 15.59 per cent jump in net profit at Rs 871.36 crore (Rs 8.71 billion) for the third quarter ended December 31, 2012, on account of robust sales across various business verticals.
BSE Metal, IT and Consumer Durable indices surged by nearly 2% each. However, BSE FMCG index declined by nearly 1%.
The proposal to merge the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City) units of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and BSE has reached an advanced stage, and both bourses could file an application before the National Company Law Tribunal as early as this month, according to a top regulatory official. Sources indicate that the merger proposal has received approval from their respective boards. Both the NSE and BSE are arch rivals when it comes to onshore trading.
The investors had pumped in a net sum of Rs 2,965.66 crore on February 11, the second-highest single-day inflow so far this month.
The country's largest stock exchange in terms of volume has 'received an in-principle nod from Sebi for starting an exchange to trade foreign currency derivatives,' sources close to the development said. NSE officials, however, were not available for comment.
Without naming National Stock Exchange, MCX-SX also said that its rival was killing competition by offering free trading in currency derivatives, and thus making it difficult for it to get business and investors.
Indiabulls Financial Services has fixed the price of a $45 million Global Depository issue which is expected to be listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.
Jet settled higher by 2.35 per cent at Rs 623.40 on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
BSE-FMCG, consumer durables, pharmaceuticals led declines.
Benchmark share indices ended lower, amid a volatile trading session, weighed by weakness among Metal, Banks and Capital Goods shares. Weak performance of the global markets also dampened the sentiments among local investors.
NSE launched trading in individual stock futures in November 2001.
The country's third largest software firm said on Thursday that it will demerge non-IT businesses like Consumer Care & Lighting into a new company, a move which will allow it to focus exclusively on information technology.
BSE-real-estate, bankex, auto lead gains on BSE.
After a weak opening, shares of the company dropped further by 5.78 per cent to trade at Rs 83 on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
'We have a lot of hope from mobile, algorithmic trading and the small and medium enterprise segment. The journey has just begun.'
In 2014, the benchmark Sensex rose by 6,328.74 points or 30 per cent and recorded a record high of 28,822.37 on November 28.
With equity and commodity exchanges allowed to enter each other's areas from October, brokerages are pump-priming their businesses to allow their clients seamless trading in commodities and equities.
'While Indian markets are indeed not inexpensive, the valuations of largecap stocks are still a considerable distance from being overstretched.'
The trades done on February 6 would be settled on February 9 as a separate settlement.
With internet protocol migration, larger bandwidth and higher throughput, the new network will allow NSE to consolidate their technology infrastructure, thereby reducing IT costs and transaction cost for the end-investor.
With billionaire Gautam Adani charged in the United States with alleged bribery and fraud, the Congress on Thursday said it 'vindicates' its demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee investigation into the various 'scams' involving his conglomerate.
After the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Brokers Forum, the Association of National Stock Exchange Members of India (ANMI) has decided to approach the government and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on extension of trading hours from January 4.
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