The lockdown-like curbs cast a dark shadow over India's ongoing economic revival. In fact, after the pent-up demand of July-Dec period subsided, the economy had started already losing momentum beginning January 2021, well before the second Covid wave intensified

The latest Business Today Business Confidence Index (BCI) shows slight improvement in overall sentiment despite the pessimism around economic and business issues

Sectoral data for February 2021, which accounts for about 90 per cent of the total bank credit deployed by 30 scheduled commercial banks, indicates the credit has jumped in both YTD and YoY basis in agri and services, while there is a deceleration in industry and personal loans

All eight core industries reported decline in output during February 2021. However, electricity production, in line with recent trends, saw only a marginal decline of 0.2 per cent

The 30-stock index touched intra day low of 49,899 against previous close of 50,792, declining 893 points today

Stock Market News Update Today: Bajaj Finserv, Bajaj Finance, Bajaj Auto, Larsen & Toubro, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories were among top losers, while Mahindra & Mahindra, Power Grid Corporation, IndusInd Bank, HCL Technologies and State Bank of India were among notable gainers.

The country's industrial output contracted 12.2 per cent in April-January period of the current fiscal, the data showed.

GVA equivalent of manufacturing companies arrived at after adding up wages, depreciation, interest and profit before tax (PBT) grew a robust 17 per cent, on a yearly basis in Q3 FY21

IndusInd Bank, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Kotak Bank and Bharti Airtel were among the top gainers today. Indian Oil, NTPC, ONGC, Tata Steel, Grasim Industries, Coal India and M&M were top losers on Sensex

Stock Market News Updates Today: Airtel, HDFC twins, ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Infosys, IndusInd Bank and Axis Bank were trading among the top gainers. Today, Sensex hit a record high of 52,235 and Nifty hit a lifetime high of 15,340

The country's industrial output had contracted 2.09 per cent in November, while it grew 4.19 per cent in October, the data showed.

Inflation in food basket almost halved to 1.89 per cent in January as compared to 3.41 per cent recorded in December on the back of 15.84 per cent decline in vegetable prices

Sectorally, indices ended on a mixed note today. Gains in realty, IT, banking and financial stocks were capped by losses in pharma, FMCG, metal and auto scrips

Stock Market News Updates Today: Earlier today, Sensex hit a record high of 51,804 and Nifty hit a lifetime high of 15,243

RIL, Bajaj twins, Airtel, Hindalco, Adani Ports were among the top gainers while, Nestle, TCS, Axis Bank, L&T traded as the top losers

Budget 2021 provides an opportunity to harness the capabilities required to implement transformative reforms and build upon the foundations integral for the manufacturing sector to contribute to 25% of the country's GDP by 2025

The core sectors had expanded by 3.1 per cent in December 2019, according to the provisional data released by the Commerce and Industry Ministry on Friday

First advance estimates of national income highlight three key imperatives to revive growth: generate demand and investment cycles by directly spending more and reverse import substitution

Except for pharma, realty and financial services, all other indices on NSE closed in green territory, with over 3% gain registered in PSU banking sector

The domestic unit opened at 73.16 per dollar at the interbank forex market, inched 13 paise higher to 73.12 against the greenback over its previous close