The Sensex opened a tad lower at 5,250, down 3 points from yesterday's close. It slipped further to touch a low of 5,234.
The Sensex closed with a gain of 75 points at 4,835. The Nifty ended above the 1,500-mark at 1,508 -- up 24 points.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries:
The Sensex crossed the 6,300-mark in a late rally on Thursday, and finished on a firm note with a gain of 43 points at 6,304.\n
Top 100 billionaires see their wealth rise 10%; top 20 account for half of total wealth of top 100.
Quite a few large- and mid-cap stocks are yet to recover from the note ban, pharma, banking and rural demand-based industries among laggards.
In 2008, the 13 companies on the list accounted for 34 per cent of the overall m-cap.
Financial shares were among the top Sensex gainers along with auto and pharma shares.
Cross previous high of $72 billion in 2007 as Indian promoters overcome the selling taboo. Abhineet Kumar reports from Mumbai.
Companies with contrasting financial ratios enjoy similar credit ratings; agencies say they look at many other metrics.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
The Aditya Birla group's decision to merge two companies, each with an existing clutch of diverse businesses, flies in the face of the accumulated wisdom regarding conglomerates, says T N Ninan.
'The outcome of next year's assembly elections, macroeconomic indicators/corporate earnings growth and global events could keep the markets choppy.'
Consumer goods, durables, automobiles worst hit.
Investors engaged in profit booking in the recent gainers at attractive and higher valuations.
Stating that the forthcoming elections will delay the reform process and hurt growth, international rating agency Moody's on Monday said it expects growth to pick up to only 5.5 per cent in FY15.
SC judges suspected a lack of objective criteria in the selection.
Ajit Mishra, Vice President, Research, Religare Broking, answers readers's queries on stocks they own or want to buy.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers readers' queries on stocks they own or want to buy. Here are his replies to some of the 'buy, sell, hold, avoid or exit?' e-mails that we have received.
The Sensex ended above 27,000 for the first time while the Nifty topped 8,100.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
With inflation down, the government's twin deficits are largely under control.
With the Sensex again nearing 28,000 points, investors can make good returns with a one-two year horizon.
More than 10% (40 of 498 companies) have lost at least half their market value.
HDFC, ONGC, Maruti Suzuki, HeroMoto Corp and Bajaj Auto gained the most on BSE Sensex
4 MNCs among top 10 companies with dividend-earning promoters in FY15.
Brokerages expect revenue growth at a 7-quarter high but profitability may disappoint.
A weaker rupee could aid corporate earnings through its positive impact on export intensive sectors such as information technology services, pharmaceuticals and commodity producers such as metal and mining, and oil and gas companies.
Combined net profit up 7.4% over a year ago, versus 11.2% in Q2.
Sachin Bansal, who had co-founded Flipkart with Binny Bansal in 2007, would exit the company
'After multiple days of losses, any relief rally is welcome. However, the trend hasn't changed.'
Engage, don't entice, advises advertising guru Sandeep Goyal.
Mining baron Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Group has bid for the most number of 14 coal mines out of 23 on offer in the first round of auction which also have aggressive bids by Aditya Birla Group, Adani and Naveen Jindal group, but was shunned by foreign players.
Top corporates have paid more advance tax in second quarter this year.
Mamata Banerjee said availability of land won't be a problem in Bengal as the state government has a land bank.
Net profits may dip 4.9% y-o-y, but the silver lining is that performance may be better than the preceding quarter
The best of India's brains are instead busy solving the world's problems (I deliberately exaggerate a bit to drive home the point), as our policies incentivise them to do so.
Auto and realty shares were among the top Sensex gainers.
Indices reversed all its losses during late trades.
The S&P BSE Sensex dropped 207 points to end at 25,230.
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