The small-caps were hit on the chin with the S&P BSE Small-cap index slipping nearly 7 per cent thus far during in FY23, underperforming the S&P BSE Midcap and the BSE 500 indexes
Stock market holiday news: While most people are celebrating Holi on Wednesday, March 8, BSE and NSE have declared a stock market holiday on March 7
Even after recent carnage, group firms' trailing P/E multiple at 29.4x, against 22.5x of 30-pack index
FMCG, auto, bankex, metal, oil & gas and services were the gainers
Investors were also nervous ahead of the release of the minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee's meeting later Wednesday
Promoters in 87 companies in the BSE 500 Index had at least some portion of their holdings pledged at the end of Q3FY23. Of this, only 17 had more than 25 per cent of their promoter holdings pledged
Nine of the 10 most valued firms together added Rs 1.88 lakh crore in market valuation last week, with ITC emerging as the biggest gainer. The 30-share BSE benchmark Sensex jumped 1,510.98 points or 2.54 per cent last week. Barring Reliance Industries Limited, rest nine firms including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), HDFC Bank, Infosys and ICICI Bank were the gainers from the top-10 list. The combined market valuation gain of the nine firms was at Rs 1,88,366.69 crore. The market valuation of ITC rallied Rs 43,321.81 crore to reach Rs 4,72,353.27 crore. Infosys added Rs 34,043.38 crore, taking its valuation to Rs 6,72,935.25 crore. ICICI Bank's market valuation jumped Rs 32,239.66 crore to Rs 6,02,749 crore and that of TCS zoomed Rs 26,143.92 crore to Rs 12,74,026.80 crore. The market capitalisation (mcap) of HDFC Bank advanced Rs 23,900.84 crore to Rs 9,25,188.45 crore and that of Bharti Airtel climbed Rs 10,432.23 crore to Rs 4,42,015.45 crore. The valuation of Hindustan Uni
Closing Bell: Adani Enterprises and Adani Ports were the leading Nifty losers, which ended 18 and 15 per cent lower, respectively. SBI, ICICI Bank, IndusInd Bank were next in line sinking up to 5%
CLOSING BELL: IT majors Tech M, HCL Tech, Infosys, Wipro and TCS were the top Sensex winners, which gained up to 3 per cent
CLOSING BELL: Within sectors, barring consumer durables, PSB and Metal indices on the Nifty logged in most gains, up over 1 per cent each, followed by IT and financial pockets
CLOSING BELL: Broader markets, too, were subdued in trade as Nifty SmallCap 100 and Nifty MidCap 100 indices slipped up to 0.2 per cent
CLOSING BELL: Broader markets, too, bled simultaneously in trade as Nifty MidCap 100 and Nifty SmallCap 100 indices fell up to 0.5 per cent
The Sensex declined 3.5 per cent in December - its worst last-month returns since 2011
The 30-share BSE Sensex fell 293.14 points or 0.48 per cent to settle at 60,840.74 on Friday. During the day, it had risen by 258.8 points or 0.42 per cent to a high of 61,392.68
Friday's correction saw a sharp short-covering on Monday as market put aside fears around the Covid-19 situation in China
Subdued Asian markets and continued selling by foreign investors further weighed on investor sentiment, traders said
CLOSING BELL: RIL (down 1.45 per cent), Tech M, Dr Reddy's Labs, Bharti Airtel, Axis Bank, and TCS were the top laggards
Meanwhile, the market's attention in the next few weeks will shift to the outcome of the Gujarat assembly election and the monetary policy action of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty dipped 36.25 points or 0.20 per cent to end at 18,307.65
The price range for the shares was set between Rs 555 to Rs 601.45, which would mean a discount of 7.7 per cent