New Delhi's current account balance recorded a deficit of $36.4 billion, or 4.4% of the GDP, in the September quarter, up from $18.2 billion, or 2.2% of the GDP, in the first quarter, data published by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) showed. The deficit was at $9.7 billion, or 1.3% of the GDP, a year ago.

Lenders have set a threshold value of ₹3,000 crore as upfront payment - the minimum a resolution applicant must pay to be in the fray, said a note issued by lenders to the bidders.

“While mid- & small-size NBFCs are majorly dependent on banks, banks also have selectively gained confidence in these NBFCs based on their performance during the pandemic and support shown by sponsors,” India Ratings said. “The agency expects the evolving funding ecosystem between banks and mid- & small-sized NBFCs is credit supportive.”

State-run banks fell short of achieving their targets only in the microenterprises category. Private banks, on the other hand, fulfilled their targets only for micro-enterprises, the central bank noted.

"This is an outcome of offering customer-centric products, growth in new business premium, industry-leading persistency ratios, superior customer service and delivering superior risk-adjusted returns," the company said in a statement.

It may go down to 14.0% in the medium stress scenario and to 13.1% under the severe stress scenario by September 2023, but it will stay above the minimum capital requirement. None of the 46 banks would breach the regulatory minimum capital requirement of 9% in the next one year, even in a severely stressed situation, RBI tests show.

About 79.2% of Nifty futures contracts were rolled over to January on Thursday as per actual exchange data. This is slightly higher compared with the three-month average of 78.6% but lower than 90% of the carried forward positions in the previous series.

The recent price action helped the stock hit a fresh 52-week high of Rs 197.20 on December 9, 2022. But, after hitting the record high, the stock quickly witnessed some profit-taking

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 309.1 points, or 0.94%, to 33,184.81, the S&P 500 gained 61.47 points, or 1.62%, to 3,844.69 and the Nasdaq Composite added 244.75 points, or 2.4%, to 10,458.04.

The investment will facilitate a long-term strategic partnership between Cipla and Ethris for development of messenger RNA (mRNA)-based therapies, the former said in a release

“Bank of Baroda stock is in a strong upward trend and after the short correction recently has taken support near the significant 50EMA level of 165 and indicated a trend reversal with a decent pullback improving the overall bias on the daily chart,” Vaishali Parekh, Vice President - Technical Research, Prabhudas Lilladher Pvt. Ltd, said.

The investment will facilitate a long-term strategic partnership between Cipla and Ethris for development of messenger RNA (mRNA)-based therapies, the former said in a release

Reliance Consumer Products will acquire 51% stake from the promoter and promoter group entities of the confectionary maker and make an open offer to the public shareholders to acquire an additional 26% stake

The company’s principle is: “Do what’s right for users.” “We've never set goals at Zerodha — be it user growth, revenues, or profits. The idea has been to get up every day, improve, & do what's right for users, knowing that we'll get to wherever we have to get to. The journey is a lot more fun this way," Nithin Kamath tweeted.

Pursuant to the investigation, the regulator found Shah and Daga were the key persons responsible for devising the scheme that led to artificial volume creation in the scrip of MIFL through their manipulative, fraudulent and unfair trade practices.

According to the Bloomberg data, TVS Motor Company is ranked second with a stock return of 72% following 106% returns of Ford Otomotiv Sanayi, a Turkish unit of Ford, which holds 41% stake. Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) and Eicher Motors ranked fourth and fifth with returns of 50% and 23%, respectively

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 145.72 points, or 0.44%, at the open to 33,021.43

The stock has attained the lower trendline support zone of the descending channel pattern on the daily chart near Rs 850 levels and witnessed a pullback with the bias improved and positive candle pattern to indicate a trend reversal and anticipating further rise in the coming days. The RSI indicator also has shown a trend reversal from the oversold zone to suggest further upward move and with upside potential visible, we expect the stock to carry on with the positive move.With the risk reward ratio favourable and chart looking good, a positional ‘buy’ is recommended on this stock for an upside target of Rs 965 keeping a stop loss of Rs 846.(Vaishali Parekh, Vice President - Technical Research, Prabhudas Lilladher)

Reliance Consumer Products will acquire 51% stake from the promoter and promoter group entities of the confectionary maker and make an open offer to the public shareholders to acquire an additional 26% stake

The company’s principle is: “Do what’s right for users.” “We've never set goals at Zerodha — be it user growth, revenues, or profits. The idea has been to get up every day, improve, & do what's right for users, knowing that we'll get to wherever we have to get to. The journey is a lot more fun this way," Nithin Kamath tweeted.

China's health system has been overwhelmed after the country reversed its lockdown and testing regimes earlier this month. The United States, India, Italy, Japan and Taiwan said they would require COVID-19 tests for travellers from China.

The benchmark index, Sensex, surged about 224 points to settle at 61,133 on Thursday. During this rally in the markets, four stocks from the BSE commodities index managed to record their new 52-week highs.The 52-week high is the highest price at which a stock has traded during the last year. Some traders and investors use this technical indicator as an important factor to analyse a stock's current value and to predict its future price movement.

The momentum indicator RSI (14) is in a bullish crossover. Chart readers said Nifty is placed at the edge of an upside breakout of the crucial hurdle at 18200 levels. “For Nifty the target is seen at 18221 and then on the upside, major hurdles will be at the 18,473 mark,” said Prashanth Tapse of Mehta Equities.

Domestic equity indices recouped early losses and closed with gains on Thursday on the monthly expiry day, led by gains in banking, financials, and IT stocks. The Nifty50 index closed 68 points or 0.38% higher at 18,191, while the S&P BSE Sensex rose 223 or 0.37% to 61,134. Meanwhile, broader markets underperformed the headline indices. Among sectoral indices, Nifty Private Bank and Nifty Metal outperformed with gains of over 1%, while Nifty Media and Nifty FMCG ended lower.Here are the stocks that remained in focus today:

Tesla has tumbled more than 42% in December alone, driving it to a loss of 68% this year — marking a radical about face for a stock that surged during the low-rate era of the pandemic.It’s a rare victory for the shorts, whose 89% return comes after several years of significant losses, S3’s Ihor Dusaniwsky said. About 2.9% of Tesla’s free float is held short, according to S3 data.

This stock recently touched its 52-week low and in the last 15 years, only 1.11% of trading sessions saw intraday gains higher than 5%. “It is so boringly safe that nobody loves it,” said Sekhar.

From the Sensex pack, Bharti Airtel, SBI, Axis Bank and Tata Steel were the top gainers, rising about 1.5-2%. ICICI Bank, IndusInd Bank, Sun Pharma, M&M and Wipro also closed with gains

Closing Bell: Sensex rebounds over 650 pts from day's low, ends 224 pts higher; Nifty above 18,150; Nykaa jumps 5%, Airtel 2%

As many as 10 stocks from Tata Group stable have outperformed benchmark index Sensex in 2022 with 4.5% returns. The likes of Oriental Hotels, The Indian Hotels Company, Tata Investment Corporation, and Benares Hotels, among the top performers, have gained over 50% but group major TCS was down about 13% in 2022.The group’s overall market cap was down about 9% to Rs 21,11,405 crore. Take a look at how its selected major and top performers have contributed to the Tata group. The last slide shows a list of top 10 gainers and losers.

Dalal Street veteran Shankar Sharma's pre-IPO bet on a small drone start-up, that was listed on the BSE SME last Friday, has earned him over 140% profit from his initial investment of Rs 2.45 crore. Along with him, Bollywood stars Aamir Khan and Ranbir Kapoor have also more than doubled their money in DroneAcharya Aerial.

In 2022, the Indian market outperformed other global and emerging markets by a notable margin, primarily driven by the country’s robust economic outlook despite multiple headwinds it faced, such as the Russia-Ukraine geopolitical crisis, policy tightening, rising inflation, and volatile FII flows.For the year 2023, after factoring in all economic and market developments, domestic brokerage firm Axis Securities presents 9 stock ideas from 6 golden themes such as banking & Financials, Rural recovery, Capital expenditure, Home improvement, Pharma sector, and High-quality retail play.

Apart from credit growth and refinancing, the market condition is conducive, if you look at the long-term rates for bonds," said Soumyajit Niyogi, director, core Analytical Group at India Ratings and Research. "So they are beefing up capital.Indian state-run and private banks raised an aggregate of 611.94 billion rupees ($7.39 billion) in October-December, more than double the 301.34 billion rupees raised in July-September, according to data compiled by Reuters.

This stock recently touched its 52-week low and in the last 15 years, only 1.11% of trading sessions saw intraday gains higher than 5%. “It is so boringly safe that nobody loves it,” said Sekhar.

After a brief jump this week, global markets are nervous about Beijing's move to further relax COVID curbs as surging infections in China dimmed hopes of a swift recovery in the world's second-largest economy.China-exposed luxury firms such as LVMH and Richemont weighed on the European index in early trading.Energy stocks fell 0.6%, while miners dipped 0.3%, tracking weakness in commodity prices.

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While markets are volatile, power utilities companies are making a comeback on the buy list of analysts . The companies in the list are covered by a minimum count of 3 and maximum by 21 analysts. The reason for having a minimum count of analysts for a particular sector is because higher coverage by analysts indicates higher institutional interest in individual stock. The list is based on upside estimated by the analysts, with the highest potential stock coming on the top of the list.

Despite strong global headwinds roiling financial markets worldwide this year, the domestic equity market stood strong as a stellar performance of bluechips saw the 30-share Sensex soaring nearly 13,000 points to its all-time high of 63,583.07 on December 1, in less than six months after touching its 52-week low of 50,921.22 points on June 17.

Since the Bank of Japan (BOJ) tweaked its ultra-low rate policy, the trend of Japanese shares changed. Until then, the market was supported by the central bank's loose monetary policy

A private sector bank, which is making an attempt to come back in out performance mode once again to a real estate player focussed on western Indian markets. Select stocks have seen their scores getting improved in a market which was volatile. ET screener powered by Refinitiv’s Stock Report Plus applies different algorithms & filters to all BSE and NSE stocks, and lists down stocks which fulfill the various criteria as specified into the algorithms & filters.

After hitting the major support third time at Rs 20 levels in March 2020 (1st time in the 31.12.08 quarter and 2nd time in the 30.09.13 quarter), the stock witnessed its 1st leg of up move with a swing high in place at Rs 73.70 levels.

Measures for Indonesia, India and Singapore are closing on Brazil’s Ibovespa Index, which has climbed 5.2% in local currency terms, according to data of major stock benchmarks compiled by Bloomberg.

A strong rebound in demand for automobiles, the government’s production linked incentive scheme to boost local manufacturing across several industries, including automobile and defence, and a shift in global sourcing from China and Europe turned in favour of the company.

“The board has approved the transfer of stressed loan portfolio including written-off loans of Rs 323.08 crore outstanding as on September 30, 2022, to an asset reconstruction company pursuant to Swiss Challenge Method for a consideration of Rs 95 crore,” Spandana Sphoorty said in a BSE filing.

He is survived by his wife, Rekha Jhunjhunwala, and three children. Rekha has been an investor in several RJ companies, and the Jhunjhunwala portfolio value includes the value of Rekha’s holdings as well.

At an index level, the midcap segment might be ending the year 2022 almost flat. But if one looks at the intra year movement of midcap index and more particularly breadth in the midcap segment, it throws a very different picture. Probably 2022 would go down as one of the most volatile years for mid-caps. The year started on a weak note, to add to the problem was the sharp jolt which it suffered when the Russia and Ukraine war started. Then came the wave of selling which they witnessed in the middle of the year. Will 2023 be different, or would it follow the same pattern?

Investec has initiated a fast buy rating on Ambuja Cement as it expects incremental disclosures on synergy and scale ambitions. "Our forecasts bake in lower synergy quantum, longer time frame on realization of synergies and thereby we have assigned higher multiples with TP of Rs752/share.

Domestic equity markets are poised for more volatility in a holiday-truncated week which is going to have only three trading sessions. However, there is no dearth of stocks signaling breakouts on a technical basis. Traders can take the advantage of that and ride the momentum. Here are a few stocks that according to experts, may deliver strong short-term returns:

After more than doubling for two consecutive years in 2020 and 2021, shares of speciality chemical player Jyoti Resins & Adhesives have gone up 3 times in 2022. Since last year, the stock has been rising continuously with higher highs and higher lows. On the weekly chart, the smallcap stock has not faced any major profit booking after 2021.

US stocks finished sharply lower on Wednesday, as investors assessed economic data on the housing market amid concerns over rising interest rates and economic growth in 2023. US stocks fell for a second day on concerns that the end of China’s zero-Covid policy could lead to a rise in cases around the world.