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The insatiable greed for money and power is too large, too repugnant to thwart.And no one epitomised that better than Harshad Mehta, notes Dhruv Munjal.

RBI changed its stance to ‘neutral’ on Wednesday, spurring bets that the country is on the path to cut interest rates 

Mercedes-Benz India is targeting double-digit growth in India by the end of the year, says Santosh Iyer, CEO of the automobile giant

Here are the intraday supports and resistances for widely traded stocks such as Reliance Industries, ITC, ONGC, Infosys, HDFC Bank, TCS, and SBI

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Apollo Tyres share price can fall to ₹460

Apple is addressing the surge in demand and supply constraints, Rajeev Chandrasekhar tweeted 

Swiggy IPO sees slow start amid US election buzz

Apollo Hospitals and Tata Steel up more than 6%, followed by HCL Tech (0.66 per cent), Coal India (0.61 per cent), and TCS (0.46 per cent)

Metal and technology stocks led the downturn, with Hindalco Industries emerging as the biggest laggard, tumbling 8.00 per cent

Metal and technology stocks led the slide

Experts believe that the markets may consolidate in the near term, with key support levels at 23,800-24,000 for the Nifty 50

Sensex, Nifty updates on November 8, 2024: Indian equity indices ended lower on TFriday, with the Sensex down by 55.47 points at 79,486.32 and the Nifty falling 51.10 points to 24,148.20. Market breadth was negative, with 1,314 shares advancing and 2,475 declining. Sector-wise, IT gained 0.7 per cent, while media, PSU Bank, and metals dropped. Midcap and smallcap indices shed 1 per cent and 1.6 per cent, respectively.

Buzzing stocks: Tata Power, MOIL, Lodha, Aurionpro, Brigade group, Rushil Decor, INOX India, Northern Arc, Embassy REIT, SBI, LIC, Ola, Tata Motors, Premier Energies, Ashok Leyland, Equitas SFB

Stock market conditions are favorable for Chinese technology firms

BSE Sensex falls 184 points to 79,357, while the Nifty50 declines 75.30 points to 24,124

Asian Paints Stock, Asian Paints Share Price Updates November 11, 2024: Shares of Asian Paints in focus 

Asian Paints’ Q2 net profit declined 43.71% due to weak demand, material price inflation, material price inflation, and performances of the decorative and coatings business.

Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices: The benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty, which traded on a weak note on Tuesday, settled 1 per cent lower for the day. Sensex closed at 78,675.18, lower by 820.97 points or 1.03 per cent, and Nifty 50 ended at 23,883.45, down by 257.85 points or 1.07 per cent. Barring the Nifty IT and Realty indices, all the sectoral indices are in red and led by bank stocks. As the Q2 earnings season concludes, analysts anticipate fund flows influencing market direction amid ongoing volatility. Gaurav Garg of Lemonn Markets Desk suggests that traders adopt hedged strategies focusing on selective stocks. Large-cap stocks are expected to perform relatively better as valuation pressures mount on the broader market. DSP Mutual Fund highlighted that mid-cap and small-cap indices have reached peak valuations, while large-cap stocks show signs of outperformance. Continued foreign portfolio outflows add to market volatility, but Pantomath Group’s ‘Market Kaleidoscope’ report points to India’s infrastructure push and rising private investment as economic stabilisers. Globally, Asian markets opened mixed, with gains in China and Japan offset by weaker Taiwanese and Korean indices.

Buzzing stocks: Max Healthcare, HFCL, Welspun, PowerGrid, Waaree Renewable, Ambuja Cements, Hyundai, Samvardhana, GIC, BSE, FSN e-Commerce, 3m India, Suven Pharma, eIH, RPower, Sundaram-Clayton

The emerging view is that likely immigration curbs may no longer hurt tech companies as much as they once did. At the same time, likely tax cuts could leave US companies with a bigger pool of money for discretionary spending, some of which might flow to Indian IT firms

Hindalco, ONGC, Ramco Cements & Ambuja Cements Share Price Highlights; Sagility IPO Listing November 12, 2024

Analysts offered mixed reviews; Jefferies issued an underperform rating with a target price reduction from ₹690 to ₹680, while Motilal Oswal maintained a neutral stance with a target of ₹880.

Buzzing stocks: United Spirits, Tata Chemicals, MTNL, Aurobindo Pharma, LCC Infotech, Tata Power, Federal Bank, EMS, Eicher Motors, Apollo Tyres, Allcargo Terminals, Vodafone Idea, Happiest Minds, Brigade, ESAF Small Finance Bank, NBCC, Kalyan Jewellers, Garden Reach, Unichem Lab, Dredging Corp, AstraZeneca Pharma. Prism Johnson, PI Industries, Shilpa Medicare, Thermax and Thomas Cook

Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices LIVE: Gift Nifty indicates a likely 100-point gap-down opening for Nifty at 23,870 on Wednesday as global markets remain weak. Analysts cite concerns over an earnings slowdown and persistently high inflation; Jefferies India downgraded full-year earnings for 63% of the 121 large companies it covers due to economic slowing. India’s retail inflation surged to a 14-month high of 6.21% in October, with steep rises in food and metal prices potentially influencing the RBI’s December policy stance. A continued hold on rates seems likely, but analysts at AngelOne note a shallower rate-cut cycle ahead for India, mirroring the US trend. Options data signals resistance around 24,500 due to heavy call writing and support near 23,500, with a bearish put-call ratio drop to 0.52. India VIX rose to 14.60 (+2.40%), suggesting caution; however, lower volatility generally supports bullish sentiment, according to SAMCO’s Dhupesh Dhameja.

With large IPOs like LIC and Hyundai India faltering, Swiggy’s listing today is expected to be muted, as analysts remain cautious amid subdued retail demand and challenging market conditions

Dabur's performance in the July-September quarter of the current financial year (Q2FY25) was weak but in line with consensus.

Stock markets closed lower for the second straight day on Friday amid relentless foreign fund outflows and losses in blue-chip stocks Reliance Industries, ICICI Bank and State Bank of India. Benchmark BSE Sensex declined by 55.47 points or 0.07 per cent to settle at 79,486.32. During the day, it tanked 424.42 points or 0.53 per cent to 79,117.37.

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea filed by Sebi against a Securities Appellate Tribunal order which set aside the penalty imposed by the market regulator on RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani and two other entities in a case related to alleged manipulative trading in shares of the erstwhile Reliance Petroleum Ltd (RPL) in November 2007. A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan said it was not inclined to interfere with the order passed by SAT.

The stock of the country's largest plastic pipe maker Supreme Industries has shed 22 per cent since its highs in October. The September quarter results were below expectations as the volatility in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resin prices led to a major destocking across the trade channel.

Dabur's performance in the July-September quarter of the current financial year (Q2FY25) was weak but in line with consensus. Consolidated revenue declined 5 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) due to a temporary adjustment in General Trade (GT) inventory. Indian revenue declined 7.6 per cent, while international business grew 13 per cent Y-o-Y in constant currency (CC) terms.

Investors are betting slower economic growth will spur opportunities for the distressed-assets firm.

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Reliance Industries shares in trade on May 8, 2020 jumped 4.5% to an intra-day high of Rs. 1579.7 per share. But the coronavirus-led stock market crash in March, triggered high-order losses in the stock of RIL which recorded its 52-week low

To alter the medium-term downtrend, the stock needs to decisively rally above ₹1,100

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Representative Michael McCaul, who has harshly criticized China in his position as the ranking member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, disclosed that his family owns stock in a Chinese tech company he described as a threat to national security.An April 20 periodic transaction report showed that McCaul disclosed a February purchase of between $50,000 and $100,000 in shares of the Chinese firm Tencent Holdings, Politico reported.In November, several months before the shares were purchased, the Texas congressman said that Tencent Holdings is among the "Chinese companies that threaten America’s economic and national security."The tech conglomerate is "heavily involved" in the "social credit system, a dystopian system China has implemented to score its citizens’ behavior," McCaul said at the time, as well as an "integral part" of the Chinese Communist Party’s industrial policies and "one of four national champions for artificial intelligence."McCaul's lawyer, Elliot Berke, said that the shares are not owned personally by McCaul but by his wife, and the decision to invest in Tencent was made by a third party.“Congressman McCaul did not purchase any shares in China’s Tencent Holdings or any other Chinese company,” the attorney said. “Congressman McCaul’s wife has assets she solely owns and a third party manager made the purchase without her direction.”Rachel Walker, a spokeswoman for McCaul, emphasized that the revelation of the Tencent shares “highlights that many Americans unwittingly invest their money in Chinese owned companies."Federal employees are often unaware they own such investments because the federal government’s thrift savings plan program creates portfolios that include Tencent and other Chinese companies, Walker said. McCaul has argued that such retirement investment plans should not invest American dollars in such "shady" Chinese companies, often without the knowledge of the investor."Congressman McCaul has been a fierce critic of the brutal behavior of the Chinese Communist Party and will continue to fight to hold them accountable as the Chair of the China Task Force," Walker said. "This should be a wake-up call to us all that the CCP’s involvement in the U.S. economy is far more reaching than many Americans realize and that we need to change the way we do business with China, including our investments."Tencent owns the Chinese social media platform WeChat, which has more than one billion users and is suspected of monitoring the activities of users both inside and outside of China. Tencent is also associated with Chinese tech firm Huawei, which U.S. officials said can secretly access American cellular phone networks, giving it access to sensitive information.McCaul has taken a leading role in criticizing China's handling of the coronavirus pandemic as well, accusing Beijing of launching perhaps the "worst cover-up in human history."He was tapped on Thursday by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy as chairman of the China Task Force, the aim of which is to develop "legislative solutions to address the Chinese Communist Party’s malign global agenda."The task force will "develop new and enduring policy solutions that, among others, enhance our economic strength and create jobs, protect our national security, rethink our supply chains and grow our competitive edge in technology," McCaul said in a statement on his appointment.

A new paper identifies the critical need for research on the ability of the COVID-19 virus to infect certain animal species, the transmissibility of infection between humans and those animals, and the impact infection could have on food security and the economy.

As India goes back under another lockdown till May 17, FMCG, retail and pharma sectors are likely to witness upticks in the demand.

With local wine shops allowed to open across states from today, liquor stocks are back in focus on Dalal Street today. Breweries and distilleries were seen moving up in the share markets while the benchmark indices fell over 5% each.

“The world has changed for the airlines and I don’t know how it’s changed,” said ace investor Warren Buffett at the annual general meeting of Berkshire Hathaway last Saturday, after his company sold all their holdings in four of the largest airlines in April.

With the majority of the population asked to stay indoor, power demand across the country tanked over 8% in March and was expected to fall another 32% in April.

Share Market News Today | Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices Highlights: As many as 19 stocks out of 30 Sensex stocks ended in negative territory with SBI (State Bank of India) as top Sensex loser, down 4.64 per cent.

In reduced trade, with China, Japan and South Korea on holiday, Australia's ASX 200 rose 1.26% and Hong Kong's Hang Seng climbed 0.66%.

United Breweries share price fell the most as much as 6 per cent to Rs 912, while United Spirits shares were down 4.5 per cent to Rs 517.30