The India-US trade deal provided a strong boost to domestic equities, with benchmark indices ending the session with broad gains across sectors. Financial, auto, real estate and chemicals sectors emerged as the best performers, while Reliance Industries and HDFC Bank were the largest individual contributors to the frontline indices. The Nifty closed at 25,727.55, up […]
India’s benchmark Nifty 50 could rise to 29,500 by end-2026, which BNP Paribas said would deliver returns in the mid-teens, largely driven by earnings growth. The brokerage urges investors to focus on large, domestically oriented stocks such as HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Maruti Suzuki, Mahindra & Mahindra, Reliance Industries and Bharti Airtel, as policy support, […]
BSE Index Services PVT. Ltd., a full subsidiary of BSE, announced the launch of the BSE Hospitals Index on Friday, a new sectoral index designed to follow the performance of hospital stocks within healthcare. The index, derived from voters from the BSE 1000 and weighed by exemption market capitalization, has a basic value of 1,000 […]
Defense shares can be tiring after a strong indictment, but PSU banks are still marching ahead, says Anand James of Geojit Investments. Together they have driven the outperformance of the wider market, so that traders wonder: is this only the opening act or the peak of the rally? Edited fragments from a chat with the […]