While Infosys adopted a three-pronged approach to protect its margins at the beginning of the year owing to COVID-19, CFO Nilanjan Roy said that all of it worked well and had helped margin expansion

India Stock Market Highlights Today: Maruti Suzuki, Hindalco, Tata Steel and GAIL India were the top gainers on Nifty rising up to 3.62%. SBI Life Insurance, Infosys, Bharti Airtel and Axis Bank were the top losers falling up to 1.79% on Nifty

After the deal with Rolls-Royce, L&T CEO SN Subrahmanyan said, \"The divestment of Servowatch Systems is as per our stated goal of unlocking value within the existing business portfolio by divesting non-core units.\"

Dalal Street today: UltraTech Cement followed by Infosys, Sun Pharma, Bajaj Auto PowerGrid, ICICI Bank and IndusInd Bank were among the top gainers in the Sensex pack. On the other hand, ONGC, M&M, Nestle India, Axis Bank and HDFC were among the laggards

India Stock Market Highlights Today: During the session, Sensex hit a lifetime high of 44,601 and Nifty touched record high of 13,079

Equities also stepped back after soft US retail sales data. Economic restrictions after the closure of the public school system in New York also kept sentiments tepid today across all markets, leading to profit booking.

India Stock Market Highlights Today: Infosys, HCL Tech, SBI, Airtel, HUL were among the top losers today, while Bajaj twins, Tata Steel, Titan, ONGC, M&M, NTPC were among the top gainers on Sensex pack 

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Over the past week, the 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 1,744.92 points or 4.16 per cent

India Stock Market Highlights Today: IndusInd Bank, followed by SBI, Bajaj Finance, Bajaj Finserv, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank, HDFC, M&M and Maruti were among the top gainers on Sensex pack. On the other hand, HCL Tech, Nestle India, UltraTech Cement and Tech Mahindra were among the laggards.

Sectorally, barring IT, pharma and realty indices, all the other sector-based indices closed bullish, with most gains registered in banking and financial stocks

Domestic benchmarks opened majorly higher today, although erased early gains on the back of mixed cues by the afternoon session. European markets traded lower after FOMC minutes showed a pessimistic stance taken by its officials in its latest meeting

Investors got spooked as coronavirus cases continued to rise in US and other parts of the world. Worldwide, the number of COVID-19 cases has crossed 1.30 crore In India, the number of infections spiked to 9.06 lakh.

Contrary to the last week, when equity markets were buoyed on optimism over vaccine development and better-than-expected economic data across countries, markets this week turned volatile amid fresh wave of coronavirus cases hitting top economies as well as domestic grounds

\"The job of the quant fund manager is to assess whether the pattern observed in past data is persistent i.e it will repeat in the future and thus can be profited from or just a data artifact which has to be ignored,\" says Gaurav Rastogi, CEO, Kuvera

Contrary to popular notion, stock markets have repeatedly demonstrated since the 1929 Great Depression that their performance is not really linked to macroeconomic and business fundamentals

Why the sharp recovery and sustained run in stock markets is built on weak fundamentals. Despite the fall, they are trading at double the valuation of the 2008 Lehman crash

Demand for oil has collapsed so much due to the coronavirus pandemic that facilities for storing crude are nearly full

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.

Share Market Update: IndusInd Bank, Tata Steel, UltraTech Cement, SBI, Infosys, Axis Bank and ICICI Bank were the among the top losers. On the other hand, Titan, Hero MotoCorp, Tech Mahindra, Nestle and Sun Pharma were the top gainers.