It is advisable to stick to mid-caps with sustainable financial metrics rather than those offering the promise of faster growth.
The rupee fell to a two-year low of 64.84 against the US dollar.
The Parsi community runs India's respected corporate houses like the Tata, Wadia and Godrej groups.
The broader NSE Nifty moved between 10,705 and 10,785.55, before ending 25.15 points, or 0.23 per cent down at 10,716.55.
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%.
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While gold returned 12 per cent annual gain in 10 years, Nifty didn't exceed 9 per cent.
Any change in rates would mean more volatility; else, poll outcome-fuelled rally expected to continue.
"Power to purchase its own equity shares or other securities by way of a buy-back arrangement has been included and provisions relating to nomination facility for shares by a shareholder have been inserted," the Infosys postal ballot notice, uploaded on the company's website, said.
Analysts expect structural risks such as risk to voice revenues, steep correction in data realisations, capex spend and rise in churn and subsequent increase in costs to continue in the medium term
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Investors with shorter horizon of three-five years can also look at balanced funds and also those looking to invest lump sum money.
Some leading Indian companies are likely to see their earnings declining if the Indian currency depreciates further, analysts and finance heads say.
A consummate deal-maker, the former Aircel boss raked in the moolah in many, but lost a packet in several others.
The S&P BSE Sensex plunged 128 points to end at 25,102.
Banking and real estate stocks rise up to 5% on further rate-cut hope.
Short-covering and the propping up of net asset values have potential to boost frontline as well as second-rung names next week
Maruti Suzuki, Asian Paints, L&T, ONGC and Infosys have gained between 1%-1.5%.
With clients increasingly looking at cost optimisation by passing on the risks to the IT vendors and IT services players demanding longer tenure deals to hedge their risks, a mix of these two factors are giving rise to large deals coming up in the market with a lot of strings attached.
Infosys, TCS, HUL and Reliance Industries were the top gainers of the day.
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As with TCS, most companies put their money in mutual funds, corporate bonds and bank deposits, which are losing their appeal versus government bonds in terms of both returns and safety.
With their balance sheets under stress, private companies have lost interest in them.
'The approach towards Mallya is not right because his unit could have been turned around earlier with additional funds from his side and the bank's side.'
Investors should take this opportunity to look at asset allocation and realign their portfolio.
Top losers in the Sensex pack include Bharti Airtel, Infosys, Asian Paints, RIL, Coal India, HDFC Bank, HDFC, TCS, ONGC and M&M, falling up to 3.09 per cent.
Fresh investments by corporates up just 5.8% in FY17, lowest since 1992
50 years ago, on April 1, 1968, Tata Consultancy Services -- now India's leading IT company -- was born. The foundation for TCS was laid by Faqir Chand Kohli whose life touched directly or indirectly many, many, Indians, says Shivanand Kanavi.
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Since April 1, promoters of Jaiprakash Associates have released more than 225 million Jaiprakash Power Ventures shares (valued at Rs 425 crore) pledged with lenders.
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Defence ministry incompetence hobbles development of battle-taxis for the Indian Army.
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Marriott-Starwood, Carlson Rezidor and others are winning the tug-of-war for customers with local hotel chains as they add new properties at a breakneck speed.
The S&P BSE Sensex closed at 26,190, up by 43 points and Nifty50 settled above 7,950 to end at 7,963, up by 17 points
Air India must tighten costs to comes out of the red or it wil perish in no time, says experts.
Index heavyweights Reliance Industries and ITC were the top losers along with ICICI Bank and SBI
The Sensex ended 229 points down at 27,602 and the Nifty ended down 63 points at 8,293.