Stock Market Basics
Understand Sensex The BSE Sensex or Bombay Stock Exchange Sensitive Index is a value-weighted index composed of 30 stocks started in April, 1984. It consists of the 30 largest and most actively traded stocks, representative of various sectors, on the Bombay...
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Industrial production surged by a stunning 16.8 per cent in December 2009, against the contraction of 0.2 per cent in the same month a year ago, driven by a robust performance by the manufacturing sector, particularly consumer durables. Manufacturing sector, which...
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Food inflation rose for three successive weeks, moving closer to 18 per cent for the week ended January 30, on account of rising prices of potato and pulses. The wholesale price-based food inflation rose to 17.94 per cent in the last...
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Snapping a two-day bloody fall, the Bombay Stock Exchange Sensex breathed easy today and gained 125 points in a special 90 minutes session on revival of buying interest in blue-chip counters. The Sensex, which had lost 434 points yesterday, bounced back...
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Rising inflation was the most recent ticklish political issue that hit the Manmohan Singh government. But was inflation rising because of price rise in essential commodities? Or was it because of the ‘erroneous method’ of calculating inflation? Some economists assert...
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