Despite high volatility due to domestic and global factors, Indian stock market benchmarks—the Sensex and the Nifty 50— ended the first half of the current calendar year with healthy gains. The Nifty 50 rose 10.5 per cent, while the Sensex clocked a 9.4 per cent gain in the first six […]
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According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), despite the forecast of an above-normal monsoon this year, India has received 20 per cent below-normal rainfall in June so far. The northern part of the country continues to reel under a sweltering heat wave even though the rain-bearing monsoon winds reached the […]
Indian equity markets managed to recover some ground on Wednesday, with the benchmark Nifty 50 index rising 3%. However, this did not fully offset Tuesday’s massive losses. The outcome of the Lok Sabha election 2024 – a fractured mandate and coalition government—was far from the Street’s lofty expectations of a […]