Market experts believe that as long as the incumbent government returns to power, policy continuity is likely.
Public sector units (PSUs) such as Nalco and Hindustan Copper Ltd have proposed to invest more than Rs 10,000 crore in the mining sector, Parliament was informed today.
Nirmal Jain, Chairman of IIFL, says investors should avoid pre-Budget buying as there could be greater opportunity post the Budget announcement due to worsening global conditions.
MB Mahesh, Analyst at Kotak Institutional Equities, says public sector banks need government support to raise capital for growth and cleaning-up their balance sheets.
In an interview with CNBC-TV18, Swati Kulkarni, Executive VP and Fund Manager at UTI MF said that although inflows in mutual funds have slowed down but as UTI has retail investors backing funds, investors have not panicked even though returns have been negative since last one year.
The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the reconstruction and completion of Salma Dam Project in Afghanistan at the Revised Cost Estimates (RCE) of Rs 1,775.69 crore, an official statement said.
Manoj Murlidharan of Religare Securities says earlier the public sector unit (PSU) banks alone tried to pull Bank Nifty up, but now even private banks are supporting the index.
Total income from operations rose 20.14 percent to Rs 5,030.86 crore from Rs 4,187.45 crore during the period under review. For entire fiscal ended March 2015, standalone net profit of MMTC surged 2.5 times to Rs 47.91 crore from Rs 18.64 crore in the previous fiscal.
The Finance ministry is set to ask for leeway from market regulator Securities and Exchanges Board of India over loss-making Public Sector Units (PSU) complying with the 10 percent public float norms.
Finance Ministry may float Cabinet note on public sector unit (PSU) ETFs shortly, report CNBC-TV18's Aakanksha Sethi.