At 9:58 am, the Sensex was trading 258 points higher at 36,523 level with Nifty rising 75 points to 11,023 level. On January 29, Sensex and Nifty reached all time high levels of 36,443 and 11,171 levels, respectively on expectations from Union Budget and optimism over Q3 earnings.

The market capitalisation of BSE firms rose to Rs 142.24 lakh crore, from Rs 121.54 lakh crore as on March 31, 2017. While the Sensex gained 3,348.18 points, the Nifty closed with gains of 939.95 points, or 10.25 per cent during 2017-18.

The indices could not sustain the abnormally high levels for long and fell over 10% till date on 10% LTCG tax in Union Budget on February 1, ripple effects of rising bond yields in US on global markets and prospects of trade wars between the US and its trading partners. In fact, the Indian market was among the major losers among its global peers in the last two months.

The digital advancements in the travel space revolve around five areas - mobile, social media, big data, Artificial Intelligence and virtual/augmented reality, says the latest KPMG-FICCI report titled 'Expedition 3.0: Travel and Hospitality Gone Digital'.

Continuous price cuts by oil companies over the past week managed to bring down fuel prices in the country.

This article critically analyses some major hits and misses of budget 2018

Asian stocks tumbled to two-month lows on Friday after Wall Street shares suffered yet another big slide in the face of rapidly-rising bond yields, with perceived havens such as the yen and Swiss franc in demand amid the turmoil.

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Apre-Budget panel discussion held by Business Today had most panellists express the view that this Budget would be dictated more by political compulsions than economic logic.

The Budget has taken the first step towards resolving issues around the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code.

The Budget has failed on not just the economy, but also on India's federal ethos.

International credit rating agency Moody's in its latest report on India's Union Budget 2018, which was announced on February 1, has said it would benefit corporate, infrastructure and insurance sectors.

In his Budget speech, FM Jaitley said, \"I propose to tax such long term capital gains exceeding Rs 1 lakh at the rate of 10% without allowing the benefit of any indexation. However, all gains up to 31 January, 2018 will be grandfathered\" Jaitley said.

Considering Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's last budget ahead of the 2019 election, Business Today interviewed four mutual fund CEO and CIO to get their views on the budget and what should investors do now with the event being over.

Budget 2018 did not have much in the bag for the India's start-up community. However, some initiatives announced are going to be a growth driver for the space.

With the government focussing on themes like rural development and the poor in its union budget today, experts today said these were on 'expected' lines given a election-heavy calendar and overall this annual exercise appears \"mildly disappointing\".