Stock Market Crash Highlights: Sensex sheds 964pts, Nifty ends at 24,951; Banking, IT shares dip

Markets Today: Broader markets also mirrored the benchmarks, with Nifty Midcap100 and Nifty Smallcap100 indices ending lower by 0.28 per cent and 0.51 per cent, respectively

9:19 AM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Nifty IT, Financials and Metal among top sectoral loser

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Nifty IT, Financials and Metal among top sectoral loser, down over 2 per cent.

9:18 AM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Broader markets bleed

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Broader markets bleed; Nifty MidCap, SmallCap down about 2 per cent.

9:17 AM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Index heatmap check

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Infosys, Asian Paints among top losers on BSE.

9:16 AM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Nifty50 opens at 23,877.15 levels

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Nifty50 opens at 23,877.15 levels

9:15 AM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Sensex opens at 79,029.03 levels

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Sensex opens at 79,029.03 levels

9:08 AM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Nifty down 325 points in pre-open

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Nifty down 325 points in pre-open 

9:08 AM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Sensex tanks 1,150 points in pre-open

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Sensex tanks 1,150 points in pre-open

8:59 AM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Bank of Japan holds benchmark rates steady at 0.25 per cent

8:56 AM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Sebi extends futures trading ban on seven agri-commodities till Jan 2025

Stock Market LIVE Updates: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has extended the suspension of trading in derivative contracts for seven agricultural commodities until January 31, 2025.

 

According to a late-night notification, the suspension in futures trading for the seven commodities — paddy (non-basmati), wheat, chana, mustard seed and its derivatives, soybean and its derivatives, crude palm oil, and moong — was initially set to expire on December 20, 2024. However, just a day before the expiry, the suspension was extended. READ MORE

 

 

8:46 AM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Asian stocks dive after Fed flags slower rate cuts, BOJ decision awaited

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Asian stocks slid, bond yields rose and the dollar was perched near a two-year high on Thursday after the US Federal Reserve cautioned it would ease the pace of rate cuts in the coming year and investors braced for a Bank of Japan policy decision.

 

The Fed cut interest rates on Wednesday as expected, but Chair Jerome Powell's explicit references to the need for caution from here on sent US stocks sharply lower, with Treasury yields surging and traders scaling back bets on rate cuts next year. READ MORE

 

 

8:42 AM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Dividend, Bonus, Rights issue: LINC, 3 other shares to go ex-date tomorrow

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Shares of Bharat Seats, Linc, Mega Corp and Sacheta Metals will remain in focus today as they will trade ex-date tomorrow, December 20, 2024, following the announcements of their corporate actions, such as dividends, rights issues, and bonus issues. 

 

The ex-date marks the point when a stock begins trading without eligibility for these benefits. Investors must hold the stock before the ex-date to qualify for the announced entitlements. However, the record date determines the list of shareholders eligible to receive dividends, bonus shares, or buyback offers. READ MORE

 

 

8:34 AM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Aluminium seen as an outlier among metals; Hindalco better placed

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Most industrial metals are expected to stay bearish at least in early 2025. However, aluminium could be an exception. Aluminium prices have run higher to $2,600 per tonne levels due to a tight supply-demand equation.

 

The metal could go into a supply deficit in 2025 due to a combination of production cuts by Russia, civil unrest in Mozambique affecting a smelter, Guinea’s bauxite export ban, and China’s withdrawal of 13 per cent tax rebate to aluminium exporters. Demand may also slow down in Europe and in China’s property sector, but despite that Beijing’s aluminium demand is expected to grow about 2 per cent in 2024, and to sustain in 2025. READ MORE

 

8:26 AM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Mutual funds increase exposure to banking, IT stocks amid outperformance

Stock Market LIVE Updates: The performance of banking and information technology (IT) stocks has had a significant impact on the composition of diversified mutual fund (MF) portfolios.

Over the past two months, these sectors have become increasingly dominant, now constituting nearly 30 per cent of the total allocation in many diversified MF portfolios. 
 

This shift reflects the strong performance and new investments flowing into these sectors. READ MORE

 

8:16 AM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Govt likely to target FY26 fiscal deficit at 4.4% of GDP to support growth

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Concerned that aggressive fiscal consolidation could hinder growth momentum while private capital expenditure remains sluggish, the government is expected to set the fiscal deficit target at 4.4 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) for FY26 in the upcoming Budget.

 

“Given rising geopolitical headwinds that may impact external demand and sluggish private capex growth, aggressive fiscal tightening next year may not be the right thing to do. We have to retain some fiscal headroom without compromising on the promised fiscal consolidation roadmap,” said a government official. READ MORE

 

8:11 AM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Fed cuts key interest rates by 0.25%; reverse repo rate lowered to 4.25%

Stock Market LIVE Updates: The Federal Reserve adjusted a key part of its rate control toolkit on Wednesday, lowering the rate it offers on its reverse repo facility by more than it cut the federal funds rate.

 

The Fed said that the reverse repo rate will now stand at 4.25% from its prior level of 4.55%, marking a 30 basis point easing, while it lowered the federal funds target rate range by a quarter percentage point to between 4.25% and 4.5%. READ MORE