The Nifty ended at 5,386 -- down 15 points.
According to state government sources in Gujarat, cotton sowing was only 9,339 hectares or 0.37% of the normal three-year average sowing in the first week of this month
The government is also planning to put all the Indians working in projects like power and road together to ensure their safety, reliable government sources said on Wednesday. This follows an assessment made by National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon's visit to Kabul last week in the wake of terror attack on Feb 26 on guest houses frequented by Indians in which seven Indians were killed.
With satisfactory progress of monsoon rainfalls prompting farmers to bring in additional area under basmati sowing, prices are set to fall lower going forward.
The Nifty ended (provisional) at 5,230 -- up 26 points. The BSE market breadth was positive. Out of 2,967 stocks traded, 2,087 advanced while 782 declined.
Nifty opened in the red at 5,468 on back of lacklustre cues from Asia and swung between 5408 and 5507.
The Nifty shed 88 points to end the day at 5,417.
Nifty dropped 63 points to end at 5,249. BSE market breadth was marginally negative. Out of 2979 stocks traded, 1,449 declined while 1,399 advanced.
The Nifty shed 11 points at 6,146. In the broader markets, the midcaps shed 0.2% and the smallcaps ended flat at 9,841.
The Qatar Investment Authority deal follows Byju's raising money from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, which was also the first direct investment by the Canadian pension fund in an Indian start-up. In March, Byju's had raised $540 million at a valuation on $5.4 billion, making it the most-valued ed-tech company in the world.
'An explanation perhaps lies in the culture of revisions that has grown deep roots in the government data collection system,' notes A K Bhattacharya.
The Indian markets ignored the lower than expected IIP numbers and ended with modest gains.
Analysts said that there is some amount of decoupling between India and the rest of world backed by strong growth momentum.
In 2014, the Supreme Court of India revoked the allocation of more than 200 coal blocks which were sold by the government
The Nifty ended up 22 points at 5282. The market breadth turned negative at close. Out of 2939 stocks traded on the BSE, there were 1200 advancing stocks as against 1650 declines.
All sectoral indices on the BSE and NSE ended in the red, led by realty, banking, metal, pharma, pharma and financial stocks.
'This is for the first time home loan rates have dropped below 7 per cent,' notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
NSE Nifty closed at 4,867, up 14 points.
What connects P S Jayakumar of Bank of Baroda, V Vaidyanathan of Capital First Ltd and Chandra Shekhar Ghosh of Bandhan?
Nifty is up 7 points at 5,415. The market breadth is positive. 1817 stocks have advnaced whike 973 have declined.
The firm, which owns, operates and manages hotels, palaces and resorts, is likely to hive-off the two properties into separate entities.
The Nifty ended down four points at 5,222. Asian markets slumped on worries of China tightening monetary policy. The Hang Seng dropped 392 points (1.8%) to 21,286. The Shanghai Composite tumbled 95 points (2.9%) to 3,152.
Rain in the June-September season will be 87 per cent of the long-period average, compared with 93 per cent forecast in June, Ajit Tyagi, director general at India Meteorological Department said. Rainfall could be 4 per cent more or less than the estimate, he said.
Investors are anxious over the US-China trade tension, a sharp devaluation in yuan and uncertainty over Kashmir issue.
Honda Siel Cars India is planning to source steel from India for its local operations and is in talks with Tata Steel. A Tata Steel spokesperson confirmed that the companies were in discussions. Currently, Honda sources steel plates from Thailand for its Greater Noida facility. Honda models, like the City and Civic, have 74 per cent localisation, while the newly launched hatchback, Jazz, has 77 per cent local content.
Whether it took the corona crisis to bring about the transformation, or otherwise, the change ought to be welcome, notes Virendra Kapoor.
'Initially, Gift City was just another real estate project, but all that changed with Modi moving to New Delhi,' notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
The NSE Nifty ended at 5,109, down nine points. The market breadth is marginally positive, out of 2,836 shares traded, 1,401 advanced and 1,357 declined on the BSE.
The NSE Nifty ended at 5,002, up 16 points. The market breadth was negative -- out of 2,868 stocks traded on the BSE, 1,512 declined, 1,246 advanced on Thursday.
The sensitive index of the Bombay Stock Exchange regained the 15,000 level in morning trade on Wednesday, after a gap of nine months, on increased capital inflow by funds after a positive infrastructure data for April fuelled hopes of an economic recovery.
Eminent banker and Satyam board member Deepak Parekh on Wednesday said that the execution of strategies remains a challenge for Indian companies in the current market condition.
Last month, the bank was placed under Prompt Corrective Action due to high level of bad loans, lack of sufficient capital to manage risks and negative return on assets for two consecutive years.
Prime Minister Modi made a strategic blunder of Nehruvian proportions -- presuming no war can happen now, and the Chinese won't be a military threat and risk their economic interests, observes Shekhar Gupta.
The Sensex gyrated between the zones and finally ended flat at 16,711, up 34 points.
S&P BSE Midcap shed 0.8% while S&P BSE Smallcap tumbled 0.6%
The NSE Nifty closed 27 points higher at 5,308. The market breadth was negative, out of 2,949 shares traded, 1,852 declined and 1,022 advanced on the BSE.
The 50-share National Stock Exchange index Nifty also shuttled between 4,524.00 and 4,436.60, before winding up at 4,469.10, showing a net loss of 33.15 points. The information technology sector, which led the upsurge in Tuesday's trading, suffered the most, losing 1.74 per cent to 3,694.03, as segment major Infosys and Tata Consultancy dropped on profit booking.
'It may sound like sacrilege, but does it really matter if the global raters downgrade India for fiscal slippage?' asks Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
