These firms offer job security and lucrative salries.
OIL, IOC, HPCL, BPCL slipped between 0.1-1.5% each while the oil producing companies such as ONGC (0.1%), RIL (1.5%), GAIL(2.6%) also edged lower.
Three oil PSUs have moved the Supreme Court seeking modification of its earlier order that Aadhaar card is not mandatory and no person should suffer for want of it in getting benefits of government schemes.
#GiveItUp but no matching LPG connections for BPL
Govt diverts Rs 253-crore subsidy savings to the poor.
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Q1 results indicate more pain ahead, as slowdown has spread to more sectors, pricing power has come down and rising interest cost is eating into profits.
Infosys, Tata Motors, ONGC, TCS and GAIL are the top 5 losers.
ONGC Videsh Ltd and Oil India Ltd will buy Videocon Industries' 10 per cent stake in a giant Mozambique gas field for $2.475 billion.
Financials declined amid profit taking while energy shares fell after the government hiked excise duty on transport fuels.
Bank shares were the top gainer in early trades with Bank of Baroda up over 4%.
Kotak Mahindra Bank and Vedanta were the top Nifty gainers.
Stellar rally in ITC shares along with strength in the Asian equities capped the downside.
Lack of clarity on the overhaul of the subsidy-sharing mechanism by upstream companies.
ONGC was the top gainer which surged over 4% followed by Axis, SBI, CIL
The S&P BSE Sensex ended 46 points lower at 24,824 and Nifty50 settled at 7,555, down by 8 points after hitting intra-day high of 7,600.45.
Companies to hold rates in Delhi until new government is formed.
BSE Midcap index outperformed the benchmark indices to end with 0.4% gains.
Market ended lower for the third straight session led by IT stocks amid downgrade by Citigroup.
The government shouldn't hide behind the veil of making a domestic giant out of the HPC-ONGC deal, rather it should just say it needs cash from this divestment exercise, says Sudhir Bisht.
The companies' underrecoveries stood at a whopping Rs 1,39,869 crore last financial year. Of that, Rs 62,837 crore was accounted for by diesel alone.
The WPI inflation stood at negative 2.4% in May 2015, compared with a negative 2.65% in April 2015.
Markets ended at record closing highs for the second day in a row on institutional buying.
The broader markets, however, outperformed their larger peers.
Lowering excise duty on petrol, diesel, and other fuels, branded fuels.
Sensex eneded lower on poor perfromance by financials and IT stocks.
Reliance Industries and ONGC were down 4-6% each contributing the most to the Sensex losses
Five of the 12 BSE sectoral indices ended at 52-week highs; the oil and gas index zoomed by nearly 5%.
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%.
Sensex in green, JSW climbs higher.
Describing DBT for LPG as a 'tremendous success,' Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily said the programme, when implemented throughout the country, would help save Rs 8,000-9,000 crore (Rs 80-90 billion) of subsidy from going to unintended beneficiaries.
For the seven months since February 2014, the benchmark index surged nearly 27%.
Brokerages expect Nifty50 firms to post 11.8% growth in net profit in Q1 but sales may decline
Markets will remain closed on Thursday, 12 November 2015 on account of Diwali Balipratipada.
Sensex in green in afternoon trade.
The 30-share Sensex closed down 115 points at 28,444 and the 50-share Nifty ended down 31 points at 8,524.
Markets extended losses to end 1.5% down on Tuesday, amid weak global cues, after investors turned cautious ahead of key economic data and booked profits in rate sensitive shares while the further fall in the rupee continued to weigh on investor sent.
Govt plans to stop RIL from selling crude to Jamnagar refinery.
Custom duties, a major concern for the oil sector.
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Cumulatively for the first two quarters till now, the advance tax collections from the Mumbai zone, which contributes over a third of the income tax collections nationally, have grown 11 per cent, the official said.
The 30-share Sensex gained 321 points to end at 26,430 and the 50-share Nifty surged 100 points to end at 7,879.
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