Activity in the F&O market for the weekly expiry tomorrow shows 17000 to act as support now. 

 We believe individual investors can increase allocation to defensive sectors like Pharma and IT.

Centrum Capital skyrocketed 19.87 per cent in today’s session to emerge as the biggest gainer in ‘A‘ Group

Today, the major gaining sectors on BSE Sensex were finance, information technology, Bankex, telecom, and realty. On the other hand, the sectors that dragged down the index were metal, energy, oil & gas, and power. NSE's India VIX, a gauge of market volatility, went up by 0.051 per cent to 19.64 levels. 

On March 30, post the previous week’s consolidation, the equity markets finally traded on a cheering note and the benchmark indices zoomed about 1 per cent with the broader sectors also showing optimism.  

Indices closed higher and Nifty gained about 1 per cent to close at 17,498.25. Sensex gained 740.34 points while Nifty Midcap and Nifty Smallcap closed higher by 0.85 per cent & 0.97 per cent, respectively.  

On Wednesday, domestic equity markets ended on a strong note on account of improving global cues.

The tech guru, Nandan Nilekani who is now the non-executive chairman of Infosys, has a 0.96% shareholding in the company (4,07,83,162 shares) and has a net worth of USD 3.6billion ( Rs 26882 crore). 

India must quickly push GDP growth to double-digit and recover from the loss of GDP growth over the past two to three years. For this, the investment in productive capital assets and infrastructures (i..e gross fixed capital formation (GFCF)) must increase to 38-40 per cent of GDP.

Tata Consumer Products Ltd on Tuesday announced that they will merge all businesses of Tata Coffee with itself.