Sensex, Nifty end lower on global concerns.
Index heavyweights were the top losers along with bank shares.
Notable losers were ONGC, Axis Bank, ITC, SBI, ICICI Bank, NTPC, Hero Motocorp, Sun Pharma and Bharti Airtel who fell by up to 2.80 per cent.
Sensex gained nearly 0.4% or 96 points at 26087 level while Nifty ended up by 42 points or 0.5% at 7,791.40 level.
Sensex ends lower; govt schemes in focus.
Nifty snaps 10-day winning streak
Earning numbers of blue-chips, including ITC and SBI, due tomorrow.
The market direction will be guided by corporate earnings, especially the oil & gas companies, since they were responsible for earnings disappointment in the past quarter as well.
The 30-share Sensex ended down 159 points at 27,425 and the 50-share Nifty closed down 24 points at 8,299.
Surprisingly, RIL scrip also fell by 2.73 per cent to 1,029.15, becoming the second biggest loser in the index
Foreign institutional investors were net buyers in Indian equities worth Rs 277.92 crore on Tuesday
Benchmark share indices gained for the fifth straight session on Thursday led by index heavyweight Reliance Industries.
Market breadth ended weak on the BSE with 1,838 declines against 1,218 advances.
The Sensex ended 290 points higher at 29,095 mark and the Nifty gained 94 points to close at 8,806 levels.
BSE Realty index zoomed by almost 7% followed by counters like Metal, Oil & Gas, Auto, Banks, Auto, Healthcare and Power, all surging between 1-5%.
SBI, PNB, Bank of Baroda, Canara Bank, Dena Bank, Central Bank of India ended down 3%-12% each.
The S&P BSE Sensex gained 115 points to end at 24,338 and the Nifty50 climbed 42 points to close at 7,404.
The Nifty had hit its third successive record high of 7,922.70 today.
Sensex ends 134.91 pts down at 28,709.87; Nifty falls 44.70 pts at 8,712.05.
ONGC, Sesa Sterlite, Tata Steel, RIL and HDFC emerged as the biggest losers
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Shedding its gains from Monday, NIkkei has declined around 0.7% while Hang Seng and Shanghai Composite were trading marginally lower.
For the seven months since February 2014, the benchmark index surged nearly 27%.
The market players are expected to react to the better than expected factory output data for the month of August, which revealed that the industrial production grew by 6.4%.
BSE Mid-cap index ended at a record closing high of 10499.86 and CNX Mid-cap index ended at a record closing high of 12672.85 levels.
Sensex lacklustre, bluechips in focus.
The 30-share Sensex ended down 71 points at 26,710 and the 50-share Nifty lost 38 points to close at 8,030.
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The 30-share Sensex lost 22 points to close at 27,090 and the 50-share Nifty gained 7 points to end at 8,121.
Metal shares gained on hopes that the government may adopt ordinance route for mines sector reforms
Sensex eneded 374 points higher on rate cut expectation from the RBI.
Sensex rises, Nifty ends at record high; RIL shares rally.
Sensex gained 38.18 points or 0.15% at 25,918.95 and Nifty ended higher by 12.50 points or 0.16% at 7,739.55.
The 30-share BSE Sensex closed down 162 points at 28,338 and the 50-share Nifty was down 67 points at 8,463.
Markets extended gains led by financials and capital goods shares coupled with a rebound in IT shares.
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Revenue yield on every rupee of investment fell to Rs 1.06 in FY13 from Rs 1.20 in FY08.
FIIs pump in Rs 2,075 crore in past three trading sessions.
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Investors often forget that the movements in indices such as the Sensex reflects the performance of its constituent stocks; nothing else.
World Bank lowered its global economic growth outlook for 2016 to 2.9% from 3.3% earlier.
In an hour-long chat on rediff.com on Thursday, A K Prabhakar, senior VP and Head - Equity Research (Retail), Anand Rathi Financial Services Ltd, answered some important questions on the market.
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