'The outcome of next year's assembly elections, macroeconomic indicators/corporate earnings growth and global events could keep the markets choppy.'
In absolute terms, the year closed with the market capitalisation of all BSE-listed companies rising by Rs 45.5 lakh crore to Rs 152 lakh crore, or an increase of 42.8 per cent, compared to the closing value on December 30, 2016, says Pavan Burugula.
About 1,556 shares have advanced, 1,211 shares declined, and 182 shares are unchanged.
On a weekly basis, the Sensex climbed 749.86 points or 2.69 per cent and the NSE Nifty soared 237.10 points or 2.76 per cent
Financials declined amid profit taking while energy shares fell after the government hiked excise duty on transport fuels.
The year gone by saw the high and mighty of the corporate world face the music in the Delhi High Court which held that the telecom majors are amenable to CAG audit and Mukesh Ambani's RIL struggling hard to get rid of an FIR lodged on gas pricing by the 49-day-old AAP regime.
Investors will keenly watch out for the Futures & Options expiry for July on Thursday
The 30-share Sensex ended up 248 points at a record closing high of 27,346.
Sensex closed 63.82 points higher at 26,851.05 in Muhurat trading; Nifty rises 18.65 points to end at 8,014.55.
Even as the Supreme Court had recently dismissed the industry's plea against prices fixed by the regulator and its timely implementation, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority has asked companies to pay the overcharged dues with 15 per cent interest.
A steep decline in the Asian equities after crude oil fell to its lowest since September 2003 dented sentiments.
Sensex ends 134.91 pts down at 28,709.87; Nifty falls 44.70 pts at 8,712.05.
The Sensex ended above 27,000 for the first time while the Nifty topped 8,100.
BSE Bankex and Telecom indices led the fall.
A rebounding and steady market is a good time to weed sectors and funds that tend to drag the portfolio.
Markets opened marginally higher helped by a rebound in index heavyweights
Technical rallies and short covering may arise only if the markets break this 500 point band
Fresh investments by corporates up just 5.8% in FY17, lowest since 1992
BSE Mid-cap index ended lower by over 2.5% and BSE Small-cap index tumbled over 3%.
Sinha says many fund houses not abiding by rules on minimum number of investors, awareness funds
Five years after the Indian Super League was established, so has its effective preeminence in Indian football.
'India missed the software products revolution (and now is in danger of missing the platform revolution), complacent that we are the software experts of the world based on IT services prowess,' points out Rajeev Srinivasan.
Have conviction in your bets and use stop-loss as a defence mechanism to curtail losses.
Markets rebound with financials leading the gains on hopes of a peaceful solution to the turmoil in Ukraine
BHEL down around 2.4% and Bharti Airtel down around 1.6% were other major losers.
Infosys was the top Sensex loser along with other index heavyweights ITC and HDFC.
The Indian rupee also trimmed most of its early gains and was trading at Rs 61.28 compared to its Wednesday's close of Rs 61.31 to the US dollar.
Analysts mostly prefer domestic plays beside select films with foreign exposure.
TCS, Bajaj Auto, Adani Ports and Cipla were the top gainers on BSE Sensex while Coal India, GAIL, Dr Reddy's and Infosys lost the most on the index.
Market ended lower for the third straight session led by IT stocks amid downgrade by Citigroup.
Not much is heard or read about Sun Pharma's media-shy owner.
Banking shares saw a renewed buying interest on the hopes of a rate-cut by the central bank post the easing of macro-economic data.
Markets recorded their biggest single-day fall since August 1 amid growth concerns in the euro zone.
T N Ninan lists a few David-Goliath encounters in the Indian markets, all of which make life interesting, though difficult if you are an investor looking for the next multi-bagger.
This weakness is likely to continue in the near-term.
TRAI may recommend the DoT to levy one-time non-refundable fee of Rs 50,000 per operator for each service area in which they opt for spectrum sharing.
Select metal stocks rebounded while power stocks extended losses after SC verdict on coal block allocations.
Markets ended at record closing highs for the second day in a row on institutional buying.
In the broader markets, BSE Midcap index slipped 0.3% whereas the BSE Smallcap index inched up by 0.2%
Within hours of rate cut announced by RBI, United Bank has reduced the benchmark lending rate by 0.25 per cent, while other banks including market leader SBI have indicated that they would follow suit.
