Bank of England's statement that Britain could be headed for its biggest economic slump in over 300 years due to the coronavirus lockdown also weighed on the investor sentiment

Expectations of a slow recovery, high fixed costs and debt worries are putting off investors

Over Rs 25,000 crore ($3.3 billion) worth of investments belonging to 300,000 investors are currently stuck in the six debt schemes wound up by the fund house

Sugar mills have already dispatched 3.7 million tonnes out of around 4.1 million tonnes of contracts signed for exports in the 2019/20 marketing year ending on September 30

A total of 13 companies, including SBI Cards and Shree Cements, are scheduled to announce their March quarter results today

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The company said, with this, all facilities under warning letter are now determined as Voluntary Action Indicated (VAI)

On Thursday, UK-based Glaxo-SmithKline (GSK) offloaded its stake in HUL via block deals.

The bank's total revenue jumped 33 per cent YoY to Rs 1,522 crore from Rs 1,148 crore reported in Q4FY19, while its net interest income came in at Rs 1,021 crore, up 38 per cent YoY from Rs 739 crore

The company controlled by Mukesh Ambani, is in discussions with banks for a potential sale of its 4.9 per cent stake in Asian Paints through a series of block trades, reports suggest.

Novelis informed that its net income attributable to its common shareholder came in at $63 million for the quarter under review, down 39 per cent year-on-year (YoY

Till 12:44 pm, a combined 34.4 million equity shares, representing 32.2 per cent of total equity of Laurus Labs, changed hands on the BSE and NSE.

The company's March quarter (Q4F20) performance came below expectations on, both, revenue and margin terms largely due to the impact of Covid-19.

BSE Sensex ended at 31,642.70, up 199 points or 0.63 per cent, with HUL (up nearly 5 per cent) being the top gainer and NTPC (down nearly 4 per cent) the biggest loser

Debt categories continued to see redemptions. Credit risk funds saw a bulk of the outflows at Rs 19,238 crore, registering the worst month for the category in 13 months

In all, these three entities have added Rs 5.8 trillion to their m-cap during the period, against a Rs 11.3-trillion rise in the incremental m-cap of all 30 Sensex companies

The previous events fueled huge rallies in bitcoin's market value, but there is a wildcard this time in the form of the coronavirus pandemic, some analysts said.

Aversion to debt products has contributed to renewed interest in the category