The finance minister did very well for equity market investors. How did she fare with households?
Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day
Asset quality remains the key monitorable with gap between proforma and reported NPAs widening
Enforcing against short squeezes should be the first milestone of developing capability in dealing with market abuse
The IPO of MRP Agro set to be launched this week will the first by an SME since November
Of the 441 stocks that gained, only 147 outperformed the BSE 500 index, which has risen 8.6 per cent in the past five trading sessions
Stock markets would be driven by quarterly results and global factors this week amid lack of any major economic event, say analysts.
Street expecting across-the-board earnings acceleration in FY22
India's market cap-to-GDP ratio is now over 100%
ICICI Securities saw brokerage income jump 61 per cent, while Motilal Oswal saw strong traction in cash market share and the highest ever quarterly client addition
Robust buying in shares of ITC, Kotak Mahindra Bank, State Bank of India, Bajaj Finance, ICICI Bank, and M&M helped the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex scale fresh lifetime peak of 50,687.51 level
The index has given annualized return of 11.5 per cent in the last two decades. We compare the index in 1999, with how it looks at present
Asset sale to get Rs 1.75 trillion; transparent budgeting gets a leg-up
The finance minister has worked hard to present a Budget that has boosted sentiment
Ernst & Young analyses the movement of stocks and gives key reasons behind it
This was the best Budget-day performance for the markets since 1999
The benchmark Sensex jumped 5 per cent, while the Bank Nifty zoomed 8.3 per cent
All that happened in the markets today
The FM has delivered a unique Budget, wherein all the right measures have been proposed to speed up growth, said Dhiraj Relli, MD & CEO at HDFC Securities
Forget fiscal conservatism, turn on the fiscal taps, and ignore debt build-up, says Survey