Sensex, Nifty Live News Today: Europen indices have opened in red territory on Friday, following mixed cues from DOW Jones futures that turned red earlier and other global counterparts.

Sensex, Nifty Live News Today:BSE 30-share barometer Sensex traded 1,500 points higher at 29,892 and NSE 50-share index Nifty was at 8,720, rising 402 points.

Sensex, Nifty Live News Today: Indian indices were the top laggards amongst the key global indices, since the average peak achieved in February 2020. Since then, Brazil index has fallen 40%, followed by India, where the decline stands at 36%. Compared to this, other key indices average decline stands around 31-28% from peak.

Sensex, Nifty Live News Today: Overseas, trend turned positive as investors banked on hopes that government and central bank action can shield the world economy from a looming recession caused by the coronavirus.

While Sensex has clocked 7.17% fall since the beginning of this year, Nifty has fallen 7.94% during the period. On the contrary, things were very rosy five months ago. Analysts and brokerages were busy predicting new highs for Indian indices despite falling economic growth

Vedanta, Tata Motors, Tata Steel, YES Bank, Hindalco and Infosys were the top losers on Nifty today. On the other hand, Future Consumer, Allahabad Bank, GMR Infrastructure, Dish TV and Vedanta were the top losers on BSE.

Share Market Update: BSE 30-share S&P Sensex closed 143 points lower at 39,745 and NSE 50-share index Nifty50 closed 45 points lower to 11,633.

Stock Market Update: In terms of sector, except IT, pharma and PSU banking stocks, all the other indices closed in green.

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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.

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The report said that the withdrawal of GST compensation and fall in overall SGST collection will have substantial impact on state finances of Punjab, Odisha, Goa, Chhattisgarh and Karnataka

The PMI index rose to 51.8 in November from 51.7 in the previous month. That marked the fastest expansion since December 2016, when it was 51.9

The announcement of corporate tax reduction in the last week of September provided the much-needed trigger that lifted the market by around 4 per cent during the month and a little over 7 per cent till date

Are survey results being withheld or discredited because they don't match the government line or is there an inherent problem in the way India conducts its statistics?

Government said that it is separately examining the feasibility of conducting the next Consumer Expenditure Survey in 2020-2021 and 2021-22 after incorporating all data quality refinements

China's GDP rose just 6.0% year-on-year, marking a further loss of momentum for the economy from the second quarter's 6.2% growth

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