Mood of the Nation survey: However, 47 per cent respondents believe that the NDA government will be able to create new jobs during its second term

For this year, data analytics firm Nielsen is projecting a growth of 9-10 per cent and has added that the first quarter this year (January-March 2020) may see a growth of 8-9 per cent

Sensex hits all-time high: Bharti Airtel (6%), Reliance Industries (2.20%) and Hero MotoCorp (1.29%) were the top Sensex gainers

Share Market Update: Shares of Reliance Industries (RIL), TCS and HCL Tech were trading higher ahead of their quarterly earnings, scheduled for release later in the day.

Share Market Update: BSE Sensex climbed to the intraday as well as its lifetime high of 41,994.26 and Nifty breached earlier 12,337 level to hit 12,374.25 as its fresh all-time high.

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

Even as banks lower their NPAs for the year, new areas of stress are emerging that may create headaches for the financial sector and the RBI

The Nikkei Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index, compiled by IHS Markit, rose to 52.7 in the final month of 2019 from November's 51.2

Goyal further said the government is also looking at pooling together land which state and central governments have got to offer to investors for setting up their businesses in India

On pending compensation cess disbursal to states, FM Nirmala Sitharamam said that there is no review being done in the current structure

Share Market LIVE: Vedanta, Axis Bank, SBI, Hindalco and YES Bank were among the top gainers on Friday. Dr Reddy, Bharti Airtel, Kotak Bank, Zee Entertainment and Bajaj Auto were among the top losers in today's trade.

Q2 GDP: Some of the key economies in the world are in the verge of recession raising fears about the global economic health

Gold price stood at Rs 32,000 on Dhanteras (November 5) last year. Gold price had closed at Rs 39,020 per 10 gram yesterday.

With Rs 2.5 lakh in 1994, one would have purchased Rs 543.8 gm of gold. The price of the same quantity would have increased to over Rs 21 lakh now. In September, gold prices touched a six-year high of Rs 40,000 per 10 gram.

Petrol and diesel price today: Petrol prices have come down to below Rs 80 per litre-level in Mumbai, but diesel is still above Rs 70 per litre in Chennai

RIL was the top gainer on the S&P BSE Sensex and Nifty 50 in the early trading hours. RIL stock rose almost 5% to the intraday high of Rs 1298.55, also its month's high, after rising 4.84% against the last close of Rs 1238.65 on the BSE.

Even as the next GST Council meeting is scheduled for September 20, the possibility of a wide ranging tax cut - to infuse growth into India's slowing economy - looks unlikely, says T.M. Thomas Isaac, Finance Minister of Kerala

Real estate sales are yet to pick up. The market is throwing up some great deals that you can go for