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small-cap stocks reflects India's strong corporate earnings. Despite uncertain macroeconomic conditions, a selective investment strategy in areas of strong earnings resilience is recommended for medium-term investors.

Also Read: Gold price today: MCX Gold trades lacklustre; how to trade in bullion today? Q3 investment demand of 157 tonnes, although 56% higher YoY, was weak relative to its five-year average of 315 tonnes. Bar and coin investment declined 14% YoY to 296 tonnes, largely due to sharp falls in Europe, the report showed.

Maruti Suzuki and Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), which auto major is a better investment for the long term. In the last one year, both Maruti and M&M gave decent returns but underperformed the benchmark. While Maruti rose almost 12 percent in this period, M&M advanced over 10 percent.

Delhi-NCR air quality ‘severe’ to breathe as smog envelops region | Photos, videos So, what about the other cities in India? We take a look at the top 10 with the worst air pollution levels in the country. AQI levels from 401-500 are termed as 'hazardous', while levels between 301-400 are 'severe', and between 201-300 are 'unhealthy'. Pan-India, the AQI level is 'poor' recording 151, as per AQI.in.

US Federal Reserve left policy rates unchanged on Wednesday, November 1, at a 22-year high level of 5.25-5.50 per cent. The US weekly jobless claims data on Thursday showed the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits increased moderately last week, according to a Reuters report. "Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 217,000 for the week ended October 28.

Shares of Adani Power jumped over 5% to the day's high of Rs 393 on the NSE on Friday sustaining a strong rally on the back of robust September quarter earnings announced on Thursday during market hours. While it is still early morning trade, the gains for Adani Power stock over the past two trading sessions is nearly 8% supported by significant volumes.

Nifty ended its first weekly expiry of the November series on a high. For the next weekly series, 19,200 call has significant open interest, followed by 19,300 strike.

CA Rudramurthy, Founder, Vachana Investments, says “I will be a buyer at BHEL at current market price. And I will keep a strict stop-loss of Rs 124 and look at targets of around Rs 133 first to come and then to those levels of Rs 145 to 150. So buy BHEL. avoid Delta Corp. Vedanta has shown clear signs of reversal. I will be a buyer in Vedanta, looking at targets of Rs 235 with a stop-loss of Rs 226. Tata Communication also looks very strong to me. I will be a buyer looking at targets of Rs 1,750 with a stop-loss of Rs 1,695.” What do you make of this breakout in Vodafone Idea? Also while there is no new news flow as such today but Macrotech Developers saw quite a bit of action? First of all a word on Idea. For the last four trading sessions, this stock has definitely shown positive price action with volume. So, for me this is a breakout which will stay. So, the breakout which has happened now at around Rs. 12.50 will continue and we have also seen yesterday a close of about Rs. 12.50. So, this stock is headed upwards and can move towards levels of around Rs. 17-20 range., I will keep a stop loss of Rs. 12 and continue holding if I have Vodafone or even buy at current level looking at targets of Rs. 17-20 with a stop loss of Rs. 12.

scrap metal shipments from the European Union as it seeks to reduce industrial emissions may make it harder for India to grow its steel sector. Countries are recycling more scrap domestically to reduce the use of pollutive feedstocks like iron ore in the steel-making process. For India, which is scrap deficient due to a relatively small consumer base, imports are key to its target of doubling steel production capacity to 300 million tons by the end of the decade. Producers are following policy developments such as the EU’s update of its waste shipment rules, which came after China tightened scrap metal exports.

BSE on Friday, November 3 ahead of the company's September quarter earnings. The company's board is to meet on Friday to consider and approve the unaudited financial results for the second quarter and half year ended September 30, 2023. Titan share price opened at ₹3,214 against the previous close of ₹3,201.30 and rose about 1.7 per cent to the level of ₹3,256 within the first 30 minutes of trade.

JK Lakshmi Cement, part of JK Organization, witnessed a notable 6.77% surge in its stock price, hitting a four-month high of ₹719.90 per share during Friday's early trading session, propelled by its impressive Q2FY24 performance. At 10:00 AM, the stock was trading with a gain of 5.17% at ₹709. The company released its Q2FY24 numbers post-market hours on Thursday, with a 55% surge in its consolidated net profit at ₹96 crore.

rupee ended at 83.24 against the US dollar. “Most traders are betting that the US FED is done with rate hikes and therefore we saw some reprieve in the rising dollar index," said Anil Kumar Bhansali, Head of Treasury and Executive Director Finrex Treasury Advisors LLP.

Bank of India (SBI), HDFC, ICICI, and others are not quite enticing. The RBI Floating Rate Savings Bonds 2020 (Taxable) is set to offer an interest rate of 8.05%, a significant increase from its current 7.35% rate. This bond's interest rate is linked to the National Savings Certificate (NSC), which recently saw an increase to 7.7%.

₹225 per share, 125% higher than the issue price of ₹100. Paragon Fine And Speciality Chemicals IPO's price band was set in the range of ₹95 to ₹100 and investors can bid for a minimum of 1200 shares and in multiples thereof.

stocks and raised bets on IT stocks in the September quarter. An analysis of shareholding patterns of BSE-listed companies shows that LIC dumped at least 84 stocks like Tata Motors, Reliance Industries (RIL), Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, TVS Motor, Dixon, ONGC, Reliance Power and Tata Elxsi. Of particular interest was LIC's strategy in dealing with banks and IT stocks.

Tata Motors share price rallied over 4% in early trade on Friday after the company reported September quarter earnings in line with Street estimates. Tata Motors shares jumped as much as 4.49% to ₹665.45 apiece on the BSE. Auto major Tata Motors on Thursday reported a consolidated net profit of ₹3,783 crore for the second quarter of FY24, driven by robust performance by Jaguar Land Rover.

Tata Steel and Dabur India who declared their quarterly earnings this week. US brokerage Citi downgraded Tata Steel and slashed the price target on concerns over Europe operations coupled with domestic steel prices. Meanwhile, Jefferies has recommended a ‘Hold’ rating on the FMCG play Dabur India while CLSA has an outperform stance on the counter.

I have two endowment life insurance policies. One offers me a sum assured of ₹1 lakh for an annual premium of ₹6,039, which I have to pay till 2031. I have already paid 7 premiums. The policy matures in 2040. The other policy offers me a sum assured of ₹2 lakh and the annual premium is ₹10,602, which I have to pay till 2038. I have paid six premiums for this so far. Should I continue these policies or surrender them for policies that give better returns?

Sensex jumped 489 points to settle at 64,080, while the broader Nifty climbed 144 points to end at 19,133. Stocks that were in focus included names like Britannia, which gained 3%, Tata Motors, which jumped 9.77%, and Minda Corp, whose shares declined 0.37% on Thursday. Here's what Viral Chheda, Sr Technical Analyst at SSJ Finance & Securities, recommends investors should do with these stocks when the market resumes trading today. Britannia — Buy In the daily chart after making an all time high around 5270 in July 2023, price has witnessed some profit booking to make the low of 4400 odd levels. Volumes were on rise as sellers were having upper hand on price to take it down. From August 2023 to till date, the price is currently moving in range of 4400-4635 odd levels and in the current week after taking support around 4400, today with relatively high volume price has given some pull back and closing around 4500 we can see an upside rally.

US Federal Reserve is done with interest rate hike cycle. Upbeat corporate earnings also boosted sentiment. The domestic equity indices rallied on Thursday amid positive global cues after the US Fed maintained a pause on interest rates.

₹1,261.19 crore, according to NSE data. DIIs bought equities resulting in an inflow of ₹1,380.15 crore, the exchange data showed.Adani Green Energy, the renewables firm of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, is in talks with a group of foreign lenders to borrow as much as $1.8 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.The loan proceeds will be used to build new capacity in solar and wind projects, said the people, who asked not to be named as the matter is private.The banks involved include Barclays Plc, BNP Paribas SA, Deutsche Bank AG, First Abu Dhabi Bank PJSC, Rabobank and Standard Chartered Plc, they said.