It's the most anticipated debut of a Seattle building since the first visitors rode elevators to the top of the Space Needle 56 years ago. Welcome to the Seattle Spheres -- Amazon's trio of steel-and-glass buildings crammed with more that 400 different plant species, which will officially open on January 30. Take a tour of the one-of-a-kind-building where the workers of the online retail giant will chill in a rainforest.
The markets opened firm with tech, bank and pharma scrips making steady gains.
Continuing from yesterday's sharp slide, the Sensex on Thursday opened nine points lower at 6,598.77.
ACC, Infosys, Ranbaxy, Tata Motors up. HLL, ONGC, Wipro, Satyam dips. Nifty down 7 points at 2063.
The Nifty moved in a range of 2632 to 2595, before settling with gains of 17 points at 2620.
The announcement was made by AIADMK coordinator and deputy chief minister O Panneerselvam and Union Minister and senior BJP leader Piyush Goyal, party election in-charge for Tamil Nadu, who described it as a "mega alliance".
Airlines are of the view that the cut in prices is too little for them to pass on to consumers, especially after a series of price increases over the last six months.
The Sensex finally closed 19 points lower at 5,758. The Nifty moved in a range of 1,825 - 1,813, before settling with a marginal loss of two points at 1,818.
'Irrespective of their politics, people feel happy.' 'One of the best compliments I have received is that I have made it from Kashmir to Karnataka.'
In the latest large opinion poll, the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies were forecast to win a narrow majority in the 543-seat lower house of parliament, compared with previous surveys predicting that they would fall short.
Gold is up 0.8 per cent for the week, after hitting a near-two-week high earlier in the week.
Reliance Jio to take over mobile business assets of troubled RCom at an estimated value of Rs 24,000-Rs 25,000 crore.
SBI had a bad day, sliding the most by 5.36%. Others that dragged the key indices down were M&M, Reliance Industries and L&T.
The S&P BSE Sensex ended the day at 28,226, up 85 points, while the Nifty50 settled at 8,734, up 18 points.
The Sensex rallied sharply towards the closing hours on relentless buying support in techs, auto, pharma and select PSU stocks, and finally notched up 81 points gains to close at 4,275. The Nifty also advanced 29 points to 1,358.
The Sensex gained 11 points to open at 5,412. Though slight weakness is seen in tech and cement stocks, steady gains in select heavyweights, PSUs, pharma and other old economy counters lifted the index
The Sensex, which, scaled a new summit of 10,305, pared gains towards the close and finally finished with a marginal gain of 20 points at 10,244.
The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 28 points at 6,471. After crossing the 6,500-mark in early trades, the index moved in a range of 6,510-6,515 till early noon trades.
The Sensex opened flat at yesterday's close of 5,842, and touched an early high of 5,868 on steady buying support in PSUs, tech, cement and other select old economy stocks.
The 20-year-old beat 24 others to the title.
The Sensex on Thursday dropped 36 points to close at 5721, while the Nifty shed 18 points to finish the day at 1804.
The Sensex opened with a positive gap of six points at 9,001, which turned out to be the high for the day.
Defying an overall sluggish market sentiment, IT stocks on Wednesday rose by up to 4 per cent amid the rupee sinking to a life low of 68.75 against the dollar.
BSE Midcap and BSE Smallcap indices hit their fresh lifetime highs for the second day in a row
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