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Bajaj Holdings & Investment Ltd. traded at Rs 10597.25 on BSE at 12:41PM (IST) on Wednesday, 0.02 per cent from previous close. The scrip quoted a 52-week low price of Rs 6901.05 and a high of Rs 11348.50.

home loan with HDFC Bank, only to have their application denied. The bank discovered that the letter of allotment was issued solely in the wife's name, leading to the refusal of their joint loan application.

TCS, Infosys, HCL Tech and LTI Mindtree rallied up to 4% each on Wednesday as the likelihood of Donald Trump winning the US Presidential election looks high. A full Trump sweep is seen as positive for equity markets globally and more so in India amid hopes of a favourable corporate tax regime alongside a low regulatory burden.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : With Donald Trump, the Republican nominee and former US president, leading the US presidential race, India's trade ties with the country—one of the few with which India has a merchandise trade surplus—are likely set for a paradigm shift.

Hemang Jani, Independent Market Expert, says at index level, there has been an almost 10% correction, at stock level anywhere from 10% to 25-30%. A large part of that pain is behind us. It is time to start accumulating stocks, particularly the pockets where the numbers have been good, whether it is banks, defence, some of the pharma companies, telecoms, so on and so forth. We are all heaving a sigh of relief with yesterday’s rebound that we witnessed. What do you make of it? Do you think that the much overdue correction is still eluding us and is yet to come or is this going to be the course of action for the markets a couple of days on the downside and then we will bounce back? Hemang Jani: We are going through this correction for almost three to four weeks now. Of course, the earning season has been one of the main triggers, which has been a bit disappointing across sectors and within sectors also we are seeing a lot of divergence. But once this US election as an event is out of the way and once we see some clarity emerging, our markets should stabilise because a large part of the correction, which is earnings led has already been priced in because at index level we have seen almost about 10% correction, at stock level anywhere from 10% to 25-30%.

equity mutual funds have offered negative returns in October, data crunching by ETMutualFunds showed. There were around 518 equity mutual funds (including sectoral and thematic funds) in the said time period and around 490 funds posted negative returns. In other words, only 28 funds gave positive returns in October.

Bharat Electronics Ltd. traded 1.6 per cent in Wednesday's trade at 10:30AM (IST). Around 441,030 shares changed hands on the counter. The counter opened at Rs 287.15 and touched an intraday high and low of Rs 293.35 and Rs 287.15, respectively, in the session so far. The stock of Bharat Electronics Ltd. quoted a 52-week high of Rs 340.35 and a 52-week low of Rs 135.95.

Stocks that rallied over 10% included, Gokul Refoils(11.60%), CCL Products(11.33%), Integrated Capital(10.00%) and KJMC Financial(10.00%).

As of 10:00 am, December gold futures were trading at Rs 78,434 per 10 grams on the MCX, down by Rs 73, or 0.09%, from the previous session's closing price. Meanwhile, December silver futures were priced at Rs 93,490 per kg, down Rs 1,158, or 1.22%, at the same time.

MphasiS Ltd. traded at Rs 2896.00 on BSE at 10:35AM (IST) on Wednesday, 1.32 per cent from previous close. The scrip quoted a 52-week low price of Rs 2144.50 and a high of Rs 3186.95.

Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd.(up 2.5 per cent), Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd.(up 1.4 per cent), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.(up 1.37 per cent), Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd.(up 1.36 per cent) and Divi's Laboratories Ltd.(up 1.06 per cent) were among the top gainers.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Negative marketing on social media through paid posts is on the rise as many small- and mid-sized startups seek to put down rivals, industry experts said. Such marketing can be of various types, although campaigns orchestrated through paid social media posts are most common, several marketing executives told Mint.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. After a year of stellar returns, the Nifty 50’s \momentum appears to be losing steam, with gains tapering off over the past week. Even so, investors seem to be buying the dip, particularly domestic institutional investors.

Mounttech Growth Fund, an early-stage venture capital firm founded by former defence secretary Ajay Kumar, is joining the $10 million funding round of spacetech startup GalaxEye.

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Tessolve has signed a definitive pact to wholly acquire German semiconductor chip design firm Dream Chip Technologies for up to Rs 400 crore.

HCLTech announced this week that it is setting up an artificial intelligence/cloud native lab in Singapore that will be ready next year. Singapore is the fifth country — after the US, UK, Germany and India — where the Noida-based company is setting up such a facility. The announcement comes days after India's second largest software services provider, Infosys, collaborated with University of Cambridge to establish an AI lab in London, adding to over a dozen such centres it has globally.

Home financing startup Easy Home Finance has secured $35 million in a funding round led by Ranjan Pai’s family office Claypond Capital and Japanese financial services major Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation’s Asia Rising Fund.

Boeing have voted to accept a contract offer and end their strike after more than seven weeks, clearing the way for the company to restart idled Pacific Northwest assembly lines.