The sugar industry as a whole is trending due to robust exports. Also, the government has extended the date for loan disbursement for domestic ethanol projects.

The US markets namely, Dow Jones and NASDAQ were down by 0.40 per cent & 2.2 per cent, respectively. Invesco plans to sell a 7.8 per cent stake in Zee via block deals. Bandhan Bank, ChrysCap, and GIC teamed up to buy IDFC Mutual Fund for Rs 4,500 crore. Meanwhile, ‘Tata Neu’, the country’s first super app is set to launch today. The buyers outnumbered sellers to show positivity in the market. On BSE, 2,018 shares rose and 1,196 shares fell. The FIIs sold shares worth Rs 2,279.97 crore while the DIIs bought shares worth Rs 622.92 crore on April 6.

 NSE and BSE listed KBC Global has moved up by almost 300 per cent in the last three years. 

At 11.30 am, on Thursday, the core equity indices i.e., Sensex and Nifty 50, fell for the third consecutive day due to poor global cues. The price of crude oil fell below $100 and is trading at $ 97.54 per barrel. 

On Thursday, the Indian benchmark indices started the session in red with Nifty slipping below 17,800 due to weak global cues.  

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Shree Renuka Sugars Ltd, an S&P BSE SmallCap company, rallied 5.70 per cent on the bourses within the first fifteen minutes of the day.

On Wednesday, the Indian equity markets ended lower on the second consecutive day, as the US markets dipped over the concerns expressed by Fed Governor Lael Brainard as well as Fed President Mary Daly, who hinted at the speedy tightening of inflation by hiking the rates.

Activity in the F&O market for the weekly expiry tomorrow shows 17500 to act as support now.

The domestic equities moved in sync with US markets to close in the negative, fuelled by investors’ expectation of stringent interest rate decisions by the Fed. The market closed lower for the second successive day, dragged down by IT and financial sector stocks. NSE's India VIX, a gauge of market volatility, went up by 2.89 per cent to 19.02 levels.