Indian Equity Markets

CEAT's consolidated net profit (Bottomline) plunged 46.5 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) to Rs 97.1 crore in the December quarter of financial year 2025 (Q3FY25), from Rs 181.5 crore in Q3FY24

HCLTech declared a dividend of Rs 18 per share, including a special Rs 6 per share dividend to commemorate 25 years since its public listing, marking its 88th consecutive quarter of dividend payouts

Notably, Biocon share price has surged about 6 per cent in the last two sessions

Shares of Delta Autocorp continued their northward march post-listing to hit the 5 per cent upper circuit at Rs 183.75 per share on the NSE SME

Several brokerages have revised their target prices for DMart, citing concerns about sustained margin pressure.

The Nifty SmallCap and MidCap indices have plunged up to 7% thus far in 2025 as against a near 2% fall in the Nifty 50 index. Chart shows broader indices on course to test multi-month support levels.

State Bank of India chairman CS Setty on Friday pitched for the creation of a market infrastructure institution to track the end-use of funds borrowed or raised as equity by small businesses. A "viable mechanism" is needed to ensure that the funds are used for the intended purposes, Setty said in remarks which come amid heightened concerns on the subject of end-use of funds. "We will require a viable mechanism to track the actual use of these funds to ensure that the funds are utilised for the purposes they have been raised for, probably through the establishment of a separate market infrastructure institution with powers to track the use of borrowed funds or the funds raised through equities," Setty said. Addressing a conference organised by the Sebi-promoted NISM here, Setty said the creation of such a platform will provide comfort to lenders as well as investors, and make pricing more competitive. It can be noted that the RBI has been pressing lenders to monitor end-use funds, .

Technical chart shows that the Nifty Next 50 index looks weak and could slide towards 58,670 - implying an over 11% fall from present levels, whereas on the upside can jump by 6% to 70,200 levels.

HSBC has revised its Sensex target for the end of 2025, lowering it to 85,990, from 90,520 earlier

Nomura analysts project a 6 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) volume growth for the Indian cement industry in FY26F, compared to an estimated 3 per cent in FY25F

A weekly close below the 50-WMA, shall open the doors for a likely slide towards 22,275 on the Nifty. Sensex likely to test 75,200 in the near-term.

Nithin Kamath: Ahmedabad and Mumbai account for 80 per cent of equity delivery trades, Nithin Kamath said on X

From FII selling to fears around HMPV virus, here's why the Indian markets crashed on Monday, January 7, 2025

Markets are expected to remain subdued at the beginning of 2025, facing headwinds from expensive valuations, structural issues in domestic consumption demand

Apex Frozen Foods skyrocketed up to 16.04% to hit an intraday high of Rs 276.35 per share, while Avanti Feeds zoomed as much as 8.97% to hit an intraday high of Rs 653.35 per share

On the first day, around 11:30 AM, Indo Farm Equipment IPO was subscribed 4.84 times with a total bid of 4,10,13,186 shares against the offer of 84,70,000

Markets Today Highlights: In the broader markets Nifty Midcap100 index ended higher by 0.37 per cent, while Nifty Smallcap100 index settled down by 0.62 per cent

The decline in the company's share price followed an announcement made on Sunday, December 29, regarding an 'incident' at the CMS-1 plant that occurred on December 28, 2024

Seeds for robust equity markets were sown during his tenure as FM in Narasimha Rao government. Economic growth gathered momentum in Singh's first term as PM

The standout growth in Taiwan's stock market was largely driven by the country's critical role in the global semiconductor supply chain, according to analysts