FIIs pump in $1.4 billion in March, after pulling out $2.9 billion in Jan-Feb.
Auto stocks are weighing on the indices.
In the broader markets, the BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices extended gains and were up over 1% each
Markets ended in red; index heavyweight under pressure.
Experts feel select companies in banking, automobiles, financial services & real estate will gain from lower interest rates
In an emotional response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's jibes at her Italian origins, Sonia Gandhi on Monday said India is her home and "it is here that my ashes will mingle with my loved ones".
The S&P BSE Sensex closed 318 points at 24,455 and the Nifty50 shed 99 points to end at 7,438.
Determining the direction of the dollar in Trump's America will be more critical for asset allocation than getting your call on interest rates right, says Akash Prakash.
Total holdings of the top eight gold ETFs have risen by 3.8 million ounces so far this year
The winter session of Parliament will commence on November 26.
The dollar is king in an intermediate correction, says Sonali Ranade
The index is more expensive than it was at 2014-end or when it hit a life-time high in January.
'We are overweight on India, as it is one of the best in emerging markets (EMs)'
A strengthening dollar, rising interest rates, tightening liquidity and a surge in oil prices - all are combining to create a toxic atmosphere for EM assets, says Akash Prakash.
'We began foolishly bragging about Saudi-Emirati investment plans as indicative of the sheikhs 'distancing' from Pakistan, including on Kashmir,' notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
It was the RBI which destroyed our $-job economy. It is for the RBI to resurrect it by instituting news ways of managing the INR, says Sonali Ranade
The rally in index heavyweight ITC has boosted the sentiment across the board.
What stocks will gain from a normal monsoon?
India's sad export figure put pressure on the rupee
Because of local and global problems, inflation pressures may continue, helping these schemes perform better.
Communist Party of India - Marxist Politburo member Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Friday alleged that the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party were hand-in-glove and took anti-people decisions in tandem.
oaring crime gave Venezuela the horrific title of being one of the most violent countries on earth. Inflation ran into tens of thousands per cent, impoverishing nearly all of the country's 31 million people.' Yet, says Radha Roy Biswas, she sees hope for the beleaguered nation where she spent her childhood years.
oil market remained under pressure and big gains are unlikely.
The rise in India Inc's market value was led by asset-light firms.
Many things could play spoilsport for the Indian economy.
Bank Nifty closes at a 30-month high; Rate sensitives lead the rally on RBI rate cut optimism.
Gold was among the least bruised by Monday's selloff, dropping half a percent versus a 6 percent slide in Brent crude and a 2 percent decline in copper.
'What I want is not for the elected to tell me what they did in the 1990s or for the past 5 years,' says A Bihari Abroad. 'I would rather know what they plan to do in the next 6 months and give the people a report on the progress of these initiatives. Perhaps, a presentation on their performance and their future plans, to the electoral public, who they represent and are actually answerable to.'
Latching on to a Pakistan minister's "destabilisation" remark against Narendra Modi, Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad on Thursday said that the BJP prime ministerial candidate should be sent to Pakistan.
Benchmark share indices ended lower for the third straight session as investors turned cautious amid tensions in Iraq even as consumer durables shares stole the limelight tracking rally in gold prices.
Keep exit plans handy, D-day could be the second week of August, writes Sonali Ranade in Market Notes.
The dollar gained strength with the emergence of the US as the only developed economy showing signs of recovery.
Jigar Shah, chief executive officer, Maybank Kim Eng Securities is not certain that the DMart listing would trigger a re-rating of the Indian retailing sector.
Investors booked profit ahead of the outcome of the two-day US Fed policy meet which begins today.
After touching a high of Rs 32,01/10g in October 2013, gold prices fell to a low of Rs 26,900/10g in June
Kotak Mahindra Bank and Vedanta were the top Nifty gainers.
Exuding confidence that the Third Front will form the next government at the Centre, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Thursday said his party would set no preconditions to join it and help form the alliance in national interest.
FMCG stocks have underperformed the market, falling 2.2 per cent so far in 2014.
The death toll on account of the cyclone Hudhud stood at 43 in Andhra Pradesh with Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu assuring that power supply would be back in the affected coastal districts by October 25.
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