The Nasdaq Composite was up 19 points or 0.68% at 2,809; it went up 1.5% for week and up 5.9% YTD. The S&P 500 Index rose 7 points or 0.55% at 1,329; it was up 1.4% for week and, up 5.7% YTD.
Auto and banking sectors will be getting astrological support, says Satish Gupta of astrostocktips.
FIIs were net buyers of Rs 1,230 crore in Index Futures, net buyers of Rs 255 crore in Index Options and net buyers of Rs 82 crore in Stock Futures on February 11.
Mahindra & Mahindra group company Mahindra Satyam is set to report a net profit before exceptional items at Rs 61.24 crore for the quarter ended December 2010 as against Rs 31.7 crore in previous quarter.
Triveni Engineering has reported a net profit of Rs 23.9 crore for the quarter ended December 2010, down 67% as compared to Rs 72.9 crore in same quarter the previous year.
The BSE plans to introduce pre-opening trade in IPO stocks on the day of listing, a practice that is now permitted for Sensex stocks and 20 large-cap counters.
Swiss firm Holcim-controlled cement makers ACC and Ambuja Cements believe margins will be under pressure as cement price may remain stable in the short-term owing to oversupply in market, reports PTI.
Stephen Elop must know better than anyone exactly what Nokia is letting itself in for by jumping into the eager arms of Microsoft.
Accusing the UPA Government of not taking a stand on the issue of black money lying in foreign banks, senior BJP leader L K Advani today said he was hopeful that the Supreme Court would take the matter to its logical end.
Uprisings across the Arab world are just a foretaste of the instability facing other poor states unless a global food crisis is tackled, leading development economist Jeffrey Sachs said on Saturday.
Goa continues to be a popular destination for tourists as the coastal state received around 26 lakh holiday-makers in 2010, a 15% jump over the previous year, officials said today.
External Affairs Minister was caught in a public gaffe when he inadvertently read out the speech of the Portuguese Minister at a UN Security Council meeting here but rectified the error after an Indian official drew his attention.
Wayne Rooney produced a spectacular overhead kick to earn Manchester United a 2-1 victory over Manchester City and a seven-point lead in the Premier League title race on Saturday.
NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Boerse plan to call a combined company DB NYSE Group and will likely sidestep thorny issues of technology in a bid to strike a deal by Tuesday, two persons close to the negotiations said.
A top Federal Reserve official said on Friday he believes the US economy is no longer at risk of slipping into a damaging deflationary spiral but that it would be unwise for the Fed to suddenly shift course.
The central government is not considering presenting a separate budget for agriculture, Union Minister Sharad Pawar said today.
The new move to put restrictions on movements of Mubarak loyalists came as mystery continued to surround the whereabouts of the deposed president and his family.
DGP and IDCO CMD also held a closed door meeting with local revenue officials and police before returing to the state capital.
The new pastimes are calling the top of the stock market, commenting on Middle Eastern affairs and -- buying dips.
"The King's Speech", in which Colin Firth plays stammering King George VI, is the bookmakers' favourite to be crowned best film at Britain's top movie accolades the BAFTA awards on Sunday.
Egyptian stocks may be boosted by optimism following the downfall of Hosni Mubarak when markets reopen next week, but confidence is unlikely to be fully restored until political stability is achieved.
Punk pioneers the Ramones, British actress and singer Julie Andrews and jazz drummer Roy Haynes were among the diverse musical stars who received Grammy Awards for lifetime achievement on Saturday.
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has issued an arrest warrant for exiled former president Pervez Musharraf in connection with the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, a spokesman for Musharraf said on Saturday.
ICRA has assigned an grade 3 indicating average fundamentals to the proposed initial public offering of Acropetal Technologies (ATL), according to its reports dated February 11.
IDFC Mutual Fund has launched IDFC Infrastructure Fund, an open ended equity fund, aims to generate long-term capital growth through an active diversified portfolio of predominantly equity related instruments of companies that are participating in and benefiting from growth in Indian infrastructure and infrastructural related activities.