Market capitalisation on BSE fell to Rs 123.58 lakh crore today compared to Rs 129.41 lakh crore on Thursday (April 30)

Sectorally, barring pharma, all the other sectors While metal, banking and  were in the red. Metal, banking and financial sectors dropped over 7% each, realty and auto were down 6.5%, followed by 5% fall in media and PSU Banking index.

Sensex, Nifty Live News Today: Oil prices and global stocks came under pressure in today's session amid rising US-China tensions over the coronavirus. US President Donald Trump has threatened China to impose new tariffs and blamed the country for creating the new coronavirus in a Chinese laboratory.

With coronavirus under control domestically, China's economy has begun to open up again as authorities loosen lockdown restrictions including stay-at-home orders

Stocks to watch today on April 7: HDFC Bank, Lupin, Kotak Mahindra Bank, IndusInd Bank, Sobha, DCB Bank, MOIL, NMDC, Force Motors, Dhampur Sugar Mills, Bharat Gears, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank among others are the top stocks to watch out for in Tuesday's trading session

Activity in service sector contracted in March due to the fall in export demand globally and also because of Prime Minister Modi's appeal to stay indoors and shutting non-essential business shops

Total 25 out of 30 stocks on Sensex and 40 out of 50 scrips on Nifty closed in the green. India VIX, the index gauging market volatility, dropped 10.2% or 7.4 points to 64.5 today.

 Sensex, Nifty Live News Today: Sensex ended 1,028 points higher at 29,468 and Nifty closed 316 points to trade at 8,597

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The composite PMI, which includes both manufacturing and services, rose to 57.6 in February from January's 56.3, its highest in eight years

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Share Market Update: Extending fall for the seventh straight session, BSE 30-share S&P Sensex closed 153 points lower at 38,144 and Nifty50 ended 69 points lower at 11,132.

While Sensex has gained over 1,407 points or 3.54 per cent over the last three sessions, Nifty rose 427.30 points or 3.66 per cent during the period

January data showed that growth of private sector activity moved up a gear, amid broad-based accelerations across manufacturing and services

Union Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur also said in Lok Sabha that scheduled commercial banks and select financial institutions have reported frauds to the tune of Rs 1,13,374 crore in the first half of the current financial year. 

After a volatilesession, the 30-share BSE Sensex settled 136.78 points, or 0.34 per cent,higher at 39,872.31

As per government data, output in mining and manufacturing sectors in November grew by 1.7 per cent and 2.7 per cent, respectively. Electricity production, however, declined by 5 per cent

All eyes will be on the budget 2020 with expectations that the government will do what it takes to get the economy back on track

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The findings are likely to provide some relief to markets and spur hopes of an economic recovery in Asia's third-largest economy, which registered its weakest growth since 2013 in the July-September quarter