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21st March, 2013 : Late selling drags Sensex, Nifty

Despite a positive start, the Indian equity market succumbed to intense selling towards the end recording its fifth straight dip. Earlier in the day, the Nifty had risen to the 5750 levels but came tumbling down as selling pressure resumed in Realty, Power, Capital Goods, Auto and Oil & gas stocks. The broader indices witnessed …

14th March, 2013 : Sensex, Nifty swing into gains

The Indian stock market bounced back sharply on Thursday ignoring rising inflation data. The annual rate of inflation, based on monthly WPI, stood at 6.84% (Provisional) for the month of February, 2013 (over February, 2012) as compared to 6.62% (Provisional) for the previous month and 7.56% during the corresponding month of the previous year. Markets …

12th March, 2013 : CPI accelerates, Sensex, Nifty on reverse gear

After taking a pause in the previous trading session, markets further weakened and lost grip on Tuesday as the benchmark indices witnessed selling. Market participants reacted sharply to rising Consumer Price data and entirely ignored better than estimated IIP figures. The annual inflation CPI (Combined) for February 2013 on point to point basis (February 2013 …

Sensex, Nifty bounces back on +ve economic outlook

After previous day’s carnage, the Indian equity market ended with smart gains on Wednesday as the benchmark indices bounced back with vengeance. Sentiment got a boost after the Congress-led UPA government raised the growth projection for fiscal year 2013-14. India’s economy may grow at 6.1-6.7% for the year 2013-14, the government forecast in a report. …

How did markets fare in 2012? Dheer Kothari

December 17, 2012 As 2012 draws to a close, it would be useful to analyse what moved the markets during the year and which sectors performed better than the rest. More importantly, what lies in store in the forthcoming year as far as market direction is concerned? Interestingly, in the current year markets have bounced …

Khallas – Sense, Sex and Sensex – the Lingo of the Mumbai bourse :Chawm Ganguly

Mumbai – land of Dawood, Bollywood and the Stockwood. While phone calls to builders and diamond merchants who finance block-busters with alleged links to the underworld make routine news, the underworld’s infiltration into the stock market hardly ever attracts attention. “Ivy League MBA’s with their plum FII postings hobnobbing with the seamy underbelly of society? …