The National Stock Exchange (NSE) has joined the fast-growing ‘Twitterati’ club, and to start with the bourse has begun posting live quotes of its benchmark index Nifty on the micro-blogging website Twitter. With this, NSE has become the first Indian bourse — and so far the only one — to have a presence on Twitter, which has become a favoured short-messaging social networking... 

With the festival of lights nearing, stock prices lit up investors’ faces ahead of Diwali, with a smart 204-point or 1.2% spurt by the BSE sensex. With this rise, the benchmark index has scaled a new 17-month high on the back of positivism injected by Asian indices and in anticipation of healthy corporate scorecard for the September quarter. The NSE nifty closed the day’s trading with... 

Indian equities resumed their upward march on Wednesday taking cues from the positive global markets. All the sectoral indices were in the green led by rally in realty, metals and oil & gas space. “US markets ended in positive territory and Asian markets are up. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said while the US economy is showing “tentative signs of stabilisation,” the central bank...