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Sensex, Nifty snap 4-day gaining streak, investors lose Rs 5.8 lakh crore in market rout today

Investors witnessed a wealth erosion of Rs 5.81 lakh crore in BSE-listed companies. The market capitalisation of BSE-listed companies fell by Rs 5,81,182.15 crore to Rs 1,23,60,438 crore




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Market Highlights: Sensex ends 810 pts down from day’s high, Nifty below 9,250; financial stocks drag markets

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.




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Sensex, Nifty gain 1% each, ONGC share price jumps 5%; check what’s fueling D-St today

Barring Nifty PSU Bank index and Nifty Realty index, all the sectoral indices were trading in green. Nifty Metal index was top sectoral gainer led by JSW Steel, Coal India and Jindal Steel.




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Liquor stocks fall as Delhi govt hikes excise duty by 70%; United Breweries, Radico Khaitan drop up to 6%

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




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Sebi extends reduced cut-off time for MFs subscription, redemption till further notice

For subscriptions to liquid and overnight schemes, the regulator has revised the time to 12.30 pm, while the same for other schemes is 1 pm.




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Market LIVE: Sensex ends 232 pts up, Nifty Bank rises over 750 pts from day’s low; autos, financial stocks gain

Share Market News Today | Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices LIVE: As many as 21 stocks out 30 Sensex scrips finished trade in positive territory with M&M as the top gainer, up 5.27 per cent, followed by Bajaj Finance, HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank.




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Indian Oil, HPCL, BPCL share prices fall up to 13% as they decide to bear petrol, diesel excise burden

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) share price declined 13 per cent to Rs 186.70 apiece on the BSE.




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Sensex, Nifty reverse opening losses, gain over 1% each; what’s driving markets today

HDFC, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Reliance Industries (RIL) and Bharti Airtel were among the top index contributors




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Sensex, Nifty snap two-day losing streak, financials outperform; key factors behind market rally

The rally in Sensex and Nifty was supported by buying in financial counters with HDFC Bank, HDFC, ICICI Bank and Bajaj Finance as top index contributors




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Market Highlights: Sensex ends 241 pts down, Nifty settles below 9,200; HDFC Bank, Kotak Bank fall, Yes Bank up 6%

Share Market News Today | Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices Highlights: ONGC was the top laggard on BSE Sensex, with a fall of 4.54 per cent. NTPC, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Bharti Airtel and Titan were other losers on the Sensex pack




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Sensex, Nifty off day’s highs, slip into red; know what’s keeping investors edgy today

Most of the sectoral indices were trading in deep sea of red. Nifty FMCG index dropped 1.33 per cent weighed by Godrej Consumer Properties, Britannia, Dabur India and Marico.




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Reliance Industries share price jumps even as Sensex falls; RIL denies Jio investment buzz

Reliance Industries share price extended gains in the late afternoon trade on Thursday, jumping over 2%, while headline index Sensex mostly traded in red, even as RIL denied the buzz about talks with Microsoft for further investment in its telecom arm Jio.




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Sensex, Nifty crash may be an opportunity to buy; markets doubled after 2008 global financial crisis

If history is any guide, adversity offers maximum value. The global financial crisis in 2008 culminated in the index being up nearly 100% in 2009.




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Sensex, Nifty end lower in volatile session, erase Wednesday’s gains; key things from today’s trade

The broader markets outperformed the headline indices. S&P BSE MidCap index fell 0.53 per cent or 61 points at 11,420. While BSE SmallCap index declined 0.14 per cent or 15 points to end at 10,687




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Share Market Highlights: Sensex, Nifty end higher in volatile trade; RIL, HUL, Infosys among top index contributors

Share Market News Today | Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices Highlights: Out of 30 Sensex stocks, 16 scrips finished trade in red with NTPC as top laggard, down 4 per cent, followed by M&M, Axis Bank, IndusInd Bank and State Bank of India (SBI)




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RIL, SBI Cards, HUL among top stocks in action today; Sensex, Nifty gain in morning trade

In the morning session, BSE Sensex reclaimed 32,000-mark while Nifty 50 was trading near its crucial 9,400. These five stocks in action today




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RIL, HUL lift Sensex 200 pts higher, Nifty slips from day’s high; check what kept markets volatile

Various news flows viz., stake sale by Reliance Industries in its subsidiary Jio Platforms, block deal in HUL, government’s decision to increase the tax on retail fuel etc., influenced the market movements.




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Making effort to ensure orderly, equitable exit to investors: Franklin Templeton MF

Last month, the fund house had closed six of its debt funds, citing redemption pressures and lack of liquidity in the bond markets. 




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Analyst Corner: Hexaware Tech rating ‘add’; A subdued quarter for the company

Margins expected to fall in CY20e; downgraded to ‘Add’ with reduced TP of Rs 330




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Why small cardamom exports to Saudi Arabia likely to rise this Ramadan season

Small cardamom exports to Saudi Arabia are likely to increase during the current Ramadan season with the Saudi authorities agreeing to accept the globally accepted Codex Food Standards of the United Nations.




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Amazon sees demand for electrical devices, clothes, work-from-home enablers after relaxation

Amazon on Monday said the company is seeing demand for various kinds of smart devices and other products like electrical appliances, clothes and work from home enablers in the orange and green zones.




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Lockdown relaxation: Tirupur garment cluster to resume ops; units start getting queries from abroad

The Tamil Nadu government has announced relaxations allowing industries, particularly export units, to resume operations with standard operating procedure as suggested by the Union government.




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Multiplex Association urges actors, producers to hold films for theatrical release

With theatres being shut since for over a month now, many small and mid-rung production houses are understood to be in talks with video over-the-top (OTT) platforms for direct-to-digital launch of their unreleased movies.




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Lockdown relaxation: E-commerce firms see demand for non-essentials rise manifold

Consumer demand for non-essential products with e-commerce firms has increased manifold after the government last Friday lifted the ban on sale of such products by e-tailers.




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With 4G tender facing hurdles, BSNL decides to upgrade existing 2G, 3G sites

With BSNL facing hurdles in its 4G tender for deployment of 50,000 new sites, the state-run firm has decided to upgrade existing 2G/3G sites, so that 4G services can be offered to customers in the coming four-six months.




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S&P says Indian banks highly stressed, quotes Axis Bank Q4 results

It said Axis Bank identified that more than 10% of its customers (25% of its loan book by value) as on April 25 availed the payment moratorium.




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Excluding Q1, paper sector will grow at around 6%: IPMA president

The Rs 75,000-crore paper industry, which has resumed production after relaxations were issued effective from April 15, may have a negative growth in the first quarter of this fiscal as demand lost in this lockdown cannot be compensated entirely.




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New benchmark bonds likely to see coupon below 6%, say experts

A Barclays report estimates that the central government’s revenue benefit from the additional hikes in fuel taxes could be as much as Rs 1.4 lakh crore on an annual basis.




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Uttar Pradesh ushers in agri reforms, waives mandi tax for 46 fruits, veggies

This effectively eliminates the role of middlemen and allows farmers to sell their produce directly to consumers and traders outside the mandi yard.




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Power, coal, renewable energy exempted from lockdown

The daily power demand in the country has fallen by a sharp 21% since March 16 with electricity requirement on March 25 being only 2,777 million units (MU), as most parts of the country is under shutdown.




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The work-from-home experiment: What can students (future managers) learn from this?

Shashwati, a news analyst, is able to do research at home, but her effectiveness has dropped in the absence of the right infrastructure.




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How to work from home, explains Pradeep Chavda, HR director, Sodexo India

Making mindful choices might involve a bit more efforts, but it’s better than the hours spent running to work. Working from home, with right planning and efforts, can be as productive as working from office.




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Expansion of equalisation levy: Why it’s not well-timed

By expanding the scope of equalisation levy to cover foreign e-commerce platforms, India has rushed to incrementally cast its net wide insofar as the digital service user-base is concerned.




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Techsplained: How Alexa, Siri, Google listen you to provide search results

As IBM Watson has been able to achieve some scale, the company believes that by putting the NLP technology in commercial use it will be able to expand its capabilities much further.




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Now streaming, more than ever: Netflix, Amazon, others need to up their game

OTT platforms see a surge in consumption and subscriber count, as viewers seek fresh content.




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Covid-19 expected to mar FY21 for airlines

Passenger traffic for carriers is expected to register de-growth of 20-25% in FY21, CARE Ratings has said.




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Icra highlights exports uncertainty in Basmati business due to Covid-19

Going forward, price trends would be a function of demand. Both domestic and exports demand will be key determining factors affecting price trends.




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Trai pulls up mobile operators over extension of validity

Trai on March 29 had asked all the telecom operators to extend the validity of talk-time of their pre-paid subscribers so that they continue to get uninterrupted services.




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Sennheiser PXC 550-II headphones: Now travel with superior audio

The PXC 550-II Wireless features a triple microphone array that makes it easy to stay connected while on the move.




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Amazon Alexa: Stay informed, connected and entertained

A few tips on how to use Alexa and Amazon smart speakers while you are stuck at home.




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Netflix sees ‘big growth’ in India as subscribers binge on local content

According to data released by market research firm Kalagato, user engagement on Netflix shot up to as much as 80 minutes a day as of March 28 from a little under 50 minutes on February 5.




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Wi-Fi calling: Work for home clicks with fixed broadband sector, says Crisil

Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI) said this was a good opportunity for the sector. The association also raised its long-standing demand of allowing active infrastructure sharing to include internet service provider (ISP) players, which is available to all other licences.




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Extended validity: Incoming calls only for pre-paid, needy users

The Cellular Operators Association of India had said that the operators had incurred a cost of Rs 600 crore by such extension.




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Indian rupee falls 31 paise against US dollar at the Interbank Foreign Exchange

The Indian rupee weakened by 31 paise to 62.64 against the US dollar today at the Interbank Foreign Exchange on month-end demand for the...




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BSE Sensex falls 214 pts to near 4 month low; NSE Nifty below 8,200

BSE Sensex slipped by 214 points to end at 27,011.31, while NSE Nifty ended below the 8,200-mark.




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Sensex tanks 722 pts to close at 26,717; Salman Khan conviction, GST fears, others blamed

BSE Sensex tanked 723 pts, its second biggest single day fall since Narendra Modi govt took over; Salman Khan, GST, others field the blame.




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Relief for celebrities, guidelines to check veracity of ad claims now possible; Srinivasan Swamy, Chairman, ASCI explains how

Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) recently announced a set of guidelines that will help celebrities to perform due diligence on a product or brand they wish to endorse.




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Yes Bank MD & CEO Rana Kapoor: Hope CASA ratio to touch 40% in next 4 quarters

Yes Bank has seen a 30.2% increase in its net profit for the March quarter, due to strong growth in advances and growth in low-cost CASA deposits.




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Samsung launches Galaxy S8 at Rs 57,900

The latest launch by Samsung will compete with Apple's iPhone as well as products from Sony, LG and Asus.




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Expect terminal growth of 6% for PNB Housing Fin

The Q4FY17 PAT was Rs 150 crore (47% y-o-y), 9% below our estimate. PPOP was 2% below estimate driven by lower NII, offset partially by lower costs.