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The S&P BSE Sensex has dipped five per cent, thus far, in CY15.
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Investors lost around Rs 1.57 lakh crore in market valuation on Friday.
The local markets are expected to react to global triggers until the government announces the Union Budget.
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Among Sensex constituents, Vedanta fell 3.40 per cent, followed by SBI 3.17 per cent, Yes Bank 3.11 per cent, Axis Bank 1.68 per cent, ONGC 1.60 per cent, Power Grid 1.52 per cent and HDFC 1.48 per cent.
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Tata Motors (down 1.7%) was the top loser on Sensex and Nifty, while Lupin (1.6%) gained the most.
Year-on-year comparison shows a 14 per cent increase in hiring activity when compared to April 2013, the report said.
BHEL down around 2.4% and Bharti Airtel down around 1.6% were other major losers.
Market breadth was weak with 1239 losers and 1078 gainers on the BSE.
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The BSE Mid-Cap index was currently up 0.83%. The BSE Small-Cap index was currently up 0.8%.
The Supreme Court on Monday posed some tough questions to a lawyer, asking him to substantiate his "unfounded allegations" in a PIL that Indian pharma major Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd was allegedly manufacturing and selling adulterated medicines.
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Gains were led by Tata Motors on robust Q1 earnings and HDFC Group shares.
The market sentiment was also impacted by mixed global cues as setbacks for a healthcare overhaul in the US raised doubts over prospects for a range of reforms backed by President Donald Trump.
The broader NSE Nifty closed below the 10,600 mark by plunging 98.15 points, or 0.84 per cent, to 11,582.35 after shuttling between 11,567.40 and 11,751.80.
BSE Sensex ended at 25,549.72 up by 321 points or 1.27% and the Nifty ended 7624.40 up by 97.75 points or 1.30%.
Shares of L&T Technology Services, an arm of engineering giant Larsen and Toubro, made a decent debut on the bourses
The 30-share Sensex ended up 214 points at 27,890 and the 50-share Nifty closed up 52 points at 8,430.
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The WPI inflation stood at negative 2.4% in May 2015, compared with a negative 2.65% in April 2015.
Creating history, leading exchange BSE on Wednesday peaked above Rs 100-trillion mark to scale a new record in terms of market wealth of all listed firms.
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Sensex plunges 322.39 points to over 1-month closing low of 27,797.01; Nifty tumbles 97.55 points to 8,340.70.
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S&P BSE Midcap index and S&P BSE Smallcap were down 2% and 1.3% respectively
The Nifty50 slipped 33 points to close the session at 8,509 after hitting an intra-day high of 8,587.
The S&P BSE Sensex surged 217 points to end at 25,736.
Investors cheered a sharp decline in the Current Account Deficit, which stands at a 4 year low as exports picked up and gold imports reduced.
The 30-share Sensex is down 359 points at 26,378 and the Nifty has dropped 78 points to trade at 7,883
Financials were the top losers while oil shares also declined amid weak crude oil prices.
SBI plunged over 3% after posting a 34.57% fall in net profit to Rs 2,538 crore for the quarter ended September 2016 on rise in provisions for non-performing loans.
8 out of 12 sectoral indices closed in red with BSE IT and Healthcare indices losing 0.5%.
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