With India's imports exceeding exports, weak rupee does more harm than good. Analysts, however, say that rupee depriciation is positive for export-oriented sectors such as IT services, pharmaceuticals, textiles and automobiles
Some of Modi's biggest reforms have met with fierce political opposition.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
The broader NSE Nifty ended at 10,888, a gain of 0.77 per cent or 83 points, after shuttling between 10,900.35 and 10,844.85.
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Mayank Ashar talks about India's business environment.
Food prices are also expected to move up due to the poor monsoons.
Government is expected to rely more on divestment proceeds to keep the fiscal deficit in check
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries
Investor sentiments remained upbeat tracking global developments as the US, China geared up for trade talks due this week.
Construction major L&T was the biggest gainer among the Sensex components, spurting 2.30 per cent, after the company said its board has approved a Rs 9,000-crore share buyback plan.
The rupee sank below 60 rupees to the dollar and government bonds had their biggest single-day fall in a month on Monday as higher-than-expected May inflation compounded worries about the impact of violence in Iraq on the price of oil, which India imports.
RIL's profit before interest and depreciation increased by 8%.
UBS said RIL's $10 billion petchem capex by 2016 will drive 12 per cent volume CAGR.
The S&P and Dow dipped the most in a day since September 28.
A recovery in rupee, buying by domestic institutional investors, encouraging earnings by select blue-chips and stock specific buying helped the market get back on its feet
Coal India topped the losers' list in the Sensex pack on Tuesday, falling 2.36 per cent, followed by Bharti Airtel at 2.16 per cent.
Sensex under pressure as Yellen signals rate hike; banking stock slip.
The United States and European Union have slapped tougher and "wide-ranging" sanctions on Russia, targeting its energy, finance and defence sectors for its continued support of separatists in Ukraine.
At present, there is no direct air connectivity between India and Myanmar.
Sun Pharma was the biggest loser among Sensex components, plunging 3.94 per cent, followed by Tata Steel falling 3.12 per cent.
And what if all this happened so fast and so extensively that we never quite had the opportunity to call the broker and say 'Sell'?
Investors have kept their eyes on US-China trade talks and are optimistic about a positive outcome.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
The divergence shows lack of financial depth in the Indian stock markets.
The firm would require it to more than triple its CAGR of revenue to 18.5% for the next decade from 6%
Sun Pharma was the best gainer among Sensex components, surging 6.91 per cent
The exploration company will buy back shares from January 23 and extinguish them.
Stoutly defending the hike in gas prices, Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily said the move would benefit the government in terms of revenue as many gas discoveries have been made by public sector companies rather than private sector.
Markets ended in green on rate cut hope.
Benchmark indices finished higher on hopes of economic reforms
ONGC was the top gainer which surged over 4% followed by Axis, SBI, CIL
The total investor wealth, measured in terms of cumulative value of all listed stocks on BSE, slumped by over Rs 7 lakh crore during the torrid week.
Pakistan on Thursday said it was committed to the ambitious $7.5 billion gas pipeline project with Iran despite the venture running into rough weather over financing.
RIL, which has faced numerous delays in getting approvals and shifting goal-posts, said the country did not have a stable policy regime and this was responsible for exit of global energy giants like Royal Dutch Shell, BHP Biliton of Australia, Statoil of Norway and Brazil's Petrobras.
The breadth, indicating the overall health of the market, was slightly positive
Cairn, which is sitting on a cash pile of about $3 billion, in a statement said its board has approved buying 17.09 crore shares or 8.9 per cent of the total shareholding, from open market at no more than Rs 335 apiece.
India Gas Solutions Pvt Ltd -- the equal joint venture between the Mukesh Ambani-led firm and Europe's second largest oil firm - is among the three companies shortlisted by Gujarat government for giving out 25 per cent stake in the Mundra terminal.
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The ETF is expected to fetch the govt Rs 3,000 crore.
State owned banks SBI and PNB were the top Nifty gainers along with ICICI Bank and auto shares.
The 30-share Sensex and the 50-share Nifty ended flat at the mark of 27,403 and 8,248 respectively.
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