The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), the National Stock Exchange (NSE), Forex, Money, bullion, metals, oils and oilseeds, cotton, grains and solvent markets will remain closed on April 30 and May 1 for Lok Sabha elections and 'Maharashtra Day', respectively.
In US, automatic spending cuts were triggered on Friday as lawmakers failed to agree on a resolution to prevent them, while China's manufacturing growth cooled in February to a four-month low.
The broader markets ended higher with mid-caps and small-caps gaining nearly 0.1% on the BSE.
The Bombay Stock Exchange's 30-share Sensex closed at 18,401 up 405 points. The National Stock Exchange's 50-share S&P CNX Nifty closed at 5,409 up 124 points.
The one-day auction was held on the National Stock Exchange platform on Monday for grant of investment limits to FIIs, for government debt securities worth Rs 5,533 crore (Rs 55.33 billion), but the bids received by FIIs (foreign institutional investors) totalled as much as Rs 10,146 crore (Rs 101.46 billion).
BSE- mid-cap & small-cap outperformed benchmark indices
BSE-Oil & Gas, PSU led gains on BSE.
Markets ended lower on Thursday following the expiry of July derivative contracts weighed down by profit taking in FMCG shares after recent gains.
NSE targeting hundreds of Japanese investors who poured money into India through yen-carry trades.
The Nifty Options would add to SGX's suite of Asian equity derivatives, which include SGX S&P CNX Nifty futures, the dominant Indian product for international participants.
More than four years after it went bankrupt, the US-based Lehman Brothers has offered to surrender its brokerage membership of NSE.
The new class of membership, named 'Alpha', would become effective on Tuesday.
BSE-IT, capital goods, banks, real-estate led gains.
Against the backdrop of Karvy crisis where securities worth Rs 2,300 crore of more than 95,000 clients were transferred into its account, NSE has asked investors to register for online applications provided by depositories for online delivery of securities as an alternative to PoA.
Positive Asian cues aided risk-on sentiments.
The proposed move, which would come into force from December 24, follows market regulator Sebi's directives regarding pre-trade controls that where necessitate after 900 points flash crash in benchmark Nifty due to erroneous trade.
Sebi suggests there should be checks on the quantity ordered and the margin available with the exchange, indicating brokers' exposure limits.
Last month, the National Stock Exchange witnessed 'flash crash', when the Mumbai-based brokerage Emkay Global Financial Services sent the exchange index tumbling as much as 15.5 per cent in just a few seconds, creating a panic among traders.
The decline in these was mostly due to company or sector-specific issues, say experts.
National Stock Exchange, India's biggest exchange by volume, launched its operations with nearly 200 members in 1994. BSE started operations in 1875 with 318 members.
In all this, the political establishment -- and especially the finance ministry -- appears the weakest link, and worse still, the possible reason for the political backing to Narain and Ramkrishna that emboldened them to defy all the sentinels -- the independent board, the auditors, top management persons like the chief compliance officer, the company secretary, and unbelievably the super-regulator Sebi, observes V Ranganathan.
BSE Metal, IT and Consumer Durable indices surged by nearly 2% each. However, BSE FMCG index declined by nearly 1%.
BSE, which recently concluded its Rs 1,243-crore initial public offering, will list on rival National Stock Exchange on Friday.
Ravi Narain, managing director and chief executive officer (CEO) of the National Stock Exchange, is set to take charge as chairman of the working committee of the World Federation of Exchanges.
The capital markets regulator exonerated former employees Subramanian Anand, Ravi Apte, and Umesh Jain, with respect to charges levelled against them.
The Bombay Stock Exchange's 30-share Sensex closed at 19,504 up 117 points. The National Stock Exchange's 50-share S&P CNX Nifty closed up 26 points at 5,930.
Investors on Friday became richer by over Rs 1 lakh crore, with benchmark Sensex witnessing 460-point rally amid easing concerns over the US tapering.
The striking pilots are now planning to move the labour court against the airline for failing to pay their backlog.
The performance has been a clear contrast to the movement in the first two months of 2014, when the S&P BSE PSU index massively underperformed the S&P BSE Sensex (down 0.2 per cent) by slipping nearly seven per cent.
Gains on Oil & Gas and financials help markets edge higher while IT continues to remain under pressure.
Investors have turned cautious and parked their funds in less risky and fundamentally strong stocks ahead of the second-quarter earnings season.
BSE-FMCG, consumer durables, pharmaceuticals led declines.
While the BSE is holding a special trading session to test its disaster recovery software, NSE conduct a special live trading session in capital market segment and future options and SLB segments.
Extending losses for the fourth straight session, the BSE benchmark Sensex today fell by over 107 points in early trade due to investor concerns, after DMK withdrew its support to the ruling UPA government.
At a meeting held in Mumbai on Monday, the board of NSE decided that Ramkrishna, currently Joint managing director of the bourse, will take charge as MD and CEO with effect from April 1, 2013 for five years.
In his first two years, Tyagi, a Himachal Pradesh cadre IAS officer, has implemented challenging stock market reforms and taken action against high-profile corporate entities.
BSE Metal and IT indices plummeted by almost 2%
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