Bank of England's statement that Britain could be headed for its biggest economic slump in over 300 years due to the coronavirus lockdown also weighed on the investor sentiment

Expectations of a slow recovery, high fixed costs and debt worries are putting off investors

Over Rs 25,000 crore ($3.3 billion) worth of investments belonging to 300,000 investors are currently stuck in the six debt schemes wound up by the fund house

This was the sixth successive year of net inflows in equity mutual funds

Sugar mills have already dispatched 3.7 million tonnes out of around 4.1 million tonnes of contracts signed for exports in the 2019/20 marketing year ending on September 30

A total of 13 companies, including SBI Cards and Shree Cements, are scheduled to announce their March quarter results today

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Jio Platforms has now raised Rs 60,596.37 crore from leading technology investors in less than three weeks.

The company said, with this, all facilities under warning letter are now determined as Voluntary Action Indicated (VAI)

On Thursday, UK-based Glaxo-SmithKline (GSK) offloaded its stake in HUL via block deals.

The bank's total revenue jumped 33 per cent YoY to Rs 1,522 crore from Rs 1,148 crore reported in Q4FY19, while its net interest income came in at Rs 1,021 crore, up 38 per cent YoY from Rs 739 crore

The company controlled by Mukesh Ambani, is in discussions with banks for a potential sale of its 4.9 per cent stake in Asian Paints through a series of block trades, reports suggest.

Novelis informed that its net income attributable to its common shareholder came in at $63 million for the quarter under review, down 39 per cent year-on-year (YoY

Microsoft is one of the leaders in the cloud computing segment segment, besides Alphabet (Google) and Amazon, making the stock attractive

Till 12:44 pm, a combined 34.4 million equity shares, representing 32.2 per cent of total equity of Laurus Labs, changed hands on the BSE and NSE.

The company's March quarter (Q4F20) performance came below expectations on, both, revenue and margin terms largely due to the impact of Covid-19.

BSE Sensex ended at 31,642.70, up 199 points or 0.63 per cent, with HUL (up nearly 5 per cent) being the top gainer and NTPC (down nearly 4 per cent) the biggest loser

Debt categories continued to see redemptions. Credit risk funds saw a bulk of the outflows at Rs 19,238 crore, registering the worst month for the category in 13 months

In all, these three entities have added Rs 5.8 trillion to their m-cap during the period, against a Rs 11.3-trillion rise in the incremental m-cap of all 30 Sensex companies

The previous events fueled huge rallies in bitcoin's market value, but there is a wildcard this time in the form of the coronavirus pandemic, some analysts said.

Aversion to debt products has contributed to renewed interest in the category

Gold eased on Friday as appetite for riskier assets improved after a string of strong corporate earnings, while investors awaited the U.S. jobs report

In Hunters, the primary focus of that attempted fusion is Jonah Heidelbaum, the 19-year-old Brooklynite, petty drug dealer and comics-shop employee played by Lerman

The special will be shot on Stage 24 of the Warner Bros. Studio lot in Burbank, where the entire original series was filmed

The dish, at its most basic just cheese and wine, gained international prominence in Switzerland in the 1930s when the Swiss Cheese Union promoted it from obscurity

The new Ubon powerbank meets basic expectations and also has a few things that are special

You'd be lucky to see one of these obscure Italian-American hybrids in the wild, let alone get your hand on one. But here's why you should, writes

For years Dior, Saint Laurent and other fashion brands have been quietly using Indian embroiderers, while offering little in the way of employment protection

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Poignant when set against India's orchestrated applause for health-workers, are from a poem in Chinese that has been translated into English as "Please Don't Disturb"

It is a chance for stakeholders in the banking sector to revisit contractual obligations, say experts

Experts point out in India it is left to individuals to quarantine themselves voluntarily

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Both employers, employees are liable for data breach from home

Experts say online dispute resolution cannot take off in India without active work from the government and the judiciary

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The spillover of compliance requirements from FY20 to FY21 makes experts wary of the ripple effect on business financials

Experts stress the need for an over-arching central law to deal with epidemics

Some countries noticeably increased the number of inter-country adoptions to the US

 East India Comedy’s stand-up comedian threw a reunion in collaboration with the food delivery platform Swiggy for its philanthropic initiative Hope,

According to Dr K.J. Kiran, a top gastroenterologist, the lockdown is a dangerous environment for breeding habits that can lead to obesity

The idea is to create an app that is not just a communication platform but one where users would also be able to buy groceries through Reliance Retail stores, or shop at ajio.com, or make payments using JioMoney.

Sterlite has 1.4 crore route kilometer (rKm) optical fibre production in China and 3.6 crore km capacity in India.

The public cloud industry is set to get a boost as firms across sectors are forced to depend on remote working.