German car maker Volkswagen was the first company to offer airbags on all its variants in India from the beginning of this year.
Ban on high-value currency sends advertising industry into a tailspin.
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%.
Over the last 12 months, thanks to bold bets by venture capital firms like Sequoia, SoftBank Vision Fund, and foreign strategic investors like Naspers, pipeline of start-ups with potential to achieve $1 bn in valuation is at an all-time high.
Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Mahindra and Toyota reported low single-digit sales growth for the month owing to weak market sentiment
Markets ended lower amid volatile trade with Sun Pharma leading the decline.
More than 40% of the companies surveyed showed job contraction in FY18, says a report by CARE Ratings
Mid- and small-cap companies seem to have done better than top-tier companies
'Businessmen are reluctant to invest because there is a fear that private investors are being targeted by various agencies.'
Daily wage earners and casual low income group workers were the worst affected
Maruti, which is majority owned by Suzuki Motors of Japan, pays massive tax, generates huge employment (its staff are almost entirely Indians) and also makes its investors extremely rich. JLR, on the other hand, though owned by Tata has its factories in England and China and in every way (sales, employment, technology) has nothing Indian about it.
The derivatives expiry on Thursday is also expected to add to the volatility.
Sentiment was largely positive after April IIP grew at 4.9 per cent, spurred by higher growth in manufacturing and mining sectors.
Investors must be cautious and follow a prudent diversification strategy to mitigate against any risks in case of any unforeseen events.
Rate-sensitive sectors like banks, auto and realty witnessed strong buying demand in trades today
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The domestic car sales volume of the company is also growing at 15%
While FMCG companies lose Rs 98,928 crore in m-cap, consumer durables stocks are down Rs 20,673 crore since November 8.
Banks and realty among the most hit on account of high borrowing costs.
'Research shows that customers want their loans instantly.' 'So the team asked can we reduce the time for approval from 5 days to 30 seconds?' 'It took the company two years of hard work to tear apart our operations and processes and rebuild them through fresh ideas and by leveraging technology.' 'We reduced the time of loan approval to 3 hours and another year to get it down to 30 seconds,' Sanjiv Bajaj tells Surajeet Das Gupta.
Broader markets underperformed indices with BSE Midcap down 0.43% while the Smallcap index fell 0.07%.
Surprisingly, RIL scrip also fell by 2.73 per cent to 1,029.15, becoming the second biggest loser in the index
While the acceptance of cards, mobile wallets and banking apps is increasing, only 10 per cent of transactions take place through them.
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India's foreign exchange reserves declined by a whopping $4.343 billion to $367.646 billion.
ICICI Bank on Friday reported 13 per cent rise in consolidated net profit at Rs 2,698 crore (Rs 26.98 billion) for the second quarter ended September 30, 2013.
Oil & gas, banking and pharma sector stocks stole the show
India Inc is either shutting loss making businesses or is hiving off allied verticals to enhance revenues.
Indian companies are likely to shell out an average salary increment of 10.3 per cent in the current fiscal with employees in pharma, health care and life sciences projected to get 12.4 per cent raise, says a survey.
Tata, whose latest investment was in Ampere, a start-up that produces electric two-wheelers and three-wheelers from Coimbatore.
A majority of economists predicted RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan would leave policy rates unchanged on Tuesday and expected a dovish commentary, as crude oil prices and inflation cool off.
Celerio's 793-cc diesel engine is the smallest in the market.
SBI had a tough journey in the last 40 years.
Dream rally: Investors' wealth doubled in 5 years in India's equity market on Friday.
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In the broader market, the BSE Midcap was down 0.2%, while BSE Smallcap fell 0.1%.
With this increase, diesel prices have touched a record high while petrol is at a 56-month peak.
Pharma major Lupin and mortgage lender HDFC were the top losers.
RIL, HDFC twins, M&M, Infosys among the top losers for the day.
The 30-share Sensex ended up 140 points at 28,262 and the 50-share Nifty was up 37 points at 8,551.
