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Rumbling across 1200 km of Indian coastline on Interceptor 650: Royal Enfield Konkan Chase 2020

A 1200 km ride across the great Indian coastline on a brilliant motorcycle, well, that's what Royal Enfield Konkan Chase 2020 was all about. Here is our experience!




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The Secret Life of Top Marketers

DMN 40 Under 40 Award winners reveal their secret talents, hobbies, and dream jobs.




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NPR's CMO on the Value of Listening and Leadership in Marketing

In Focus: Marketing Hall of Femme honoree Emma Carrasco, NPR's chief marketer, expounds on the importance listening played to her journey from the stage to CMO.




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Video: How Blue Apron Is Winning the Menu Delivery (Hunger) Game

We reviewed the social, email, and web components of the famous company's marketing.




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Elon Musk does it again: Tesla CEO wipes nearly $15 billion in m-cap with this tweet

Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to micro-blogging website Twitter and said that the company’s stock was overvalued which later resulted in a sharp decline in the share prices of the company.




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Share Market Highlights: Sensex nosedives 2,000 pts, Nifty ends at 9,293; RIL, HDFC twins, ICICI Bank top draggers

Share Market News Today | Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices Highlights: As many as 28 stocks out of 30 Sensex stocks settled in a deep sea of red with ICICI Bank as top laggard, down 11 per cent, followed by Bajaj Finance, HDFC, IndusInd Bank and Axis Bank.




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Reliance Industries hot on brokerages shopping cart; rights issue, Facebook deal drive estimates

Despite reporting a fall in profits in the January-March quarter, the 10% stake sale in Reliance Jio to Facebook and the biggest-ever rights issue in India of Rs 53,000 crore that Reliance Industries announced on Friday has made brokerage firms stay firm on their ‘buy’ calls for India’s most valuable company.




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Liquor stocks surge even as Sensex, Nifty tank; check top gainers

With local wine shops allowed to open across states from today, liquor stocks are back in focus on Dalal Street today. Breweries and distilleries were seen moving up in the share markets while the benchmark indices fell over 5% each.




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HUL share price slips over 5%; analysts say ‘buy’ post Q4 results, check new target prices

The market share of HUL was up by 50bp in 4QFY20 with 80 per cent of portfolio gaining share in the March quarter, a clear indication of resilient performance in an extraordinarily difficult quarter




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Warren Buffett is waving goodbye to aviation stocks, should you follow the billionaire investor?

“The world has changed for the airlines and I don’t know how it’s changed,” said ace investor Warren Buffett at the annual general meeting of Berkshire Hathaway last Saturday, after his company sold all their holdings in four of the largest airlines in April.




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3 utility stocks with potential to jump as much as 78% to help investors dodge Covid-19 power shock

With the majority of the population asked to stay indoor, power demand across the country tanked over 8% in March and was expected to fall another 32% in April.




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Market Highlights: Sensex ends 810 pts down from day’s high, Nifty below 9,250; financial stocks drag markets

Share Market News Today | Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices Highlights: As many as 19 stocks out of 30 Sensex stocks ended in negative territory with SBI (State Bank of India) as top Sensex loser, down 4.64 per cent.




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Uncertainty creates volatility, here’s what investors could do to dodge the crisis | Interview

As uncertainty looms large, volatility again jumped 28% on Monday as equity markets resumed trading after a long weekend.




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Petrol gets costlier, massive hike in diesel prices after Delhi govt raises VAT; check new fuel prices

Petrol price is hiked by Rs 1.67 per litre while diesel price is increased by Rs 7.10 per litre in Delhi.




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Sensex, Nifty gain 1% each, ONGC share price jumps 5%; check what’s fueling D-St today

Barring Nifty PSU Bank index and Nifty Realty index, all the sectoral indices were trading in green. Nifty Metal index was top sectoral gainer led by JSW Steel, Coal India and Jindal Steel.




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Liquor stocks fall as Delhi govt hikes excise duty by 70%; United Breweries, Radico Khaitan drop up to 6%

United Breweries share price fell the most as much as 6 per cent to Rs 912, while United Spirits shares were down 4.5 per cent to Rs 517.30




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Market LIVE: Sensex ends 232 pts up, Nifty Bank rises over 750 pts from day’s low; autos, financial stocks gain

Share Market News Today | Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices LIVE: As many as 21 stocks out 30 Sensex scrips finished trade in positive territory with M&M as the top gainer, up 5.27 per cent, followed by Bajaj Finance, HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank.




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UP hikes petrol price by Rs 2 per litre, diesel by Rs 1 per litre to garner Rs 2,070 cr

Petrol will cost Rs 73.91 per litre while diesel will be available at Rs 63.86 per litre in the state, finance minister Suresh Khanna told reporters after the Cabinet meeting here.




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Market Highlights: Sensex ends 241 pts down, Nifty settles below 9,200; HDFC Bank, Kotak Bank fall, Yes Bank up 6%

Share Market News Today | Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices Highlights: ONGC was the top laggard on BSE Sensex, with a fall of 4.54 per cent. NTPC, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Bharti Airtel and Titan were other losers on the Sensex pack




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Sensex, Nifty off day’s highs, slip into red; know what’s keeping investors edgy today

Most of the sectoral indices were trading in deep sea of red. Nifty FMCG index dropped 1.33 per cent weighed by Godrej Consumer Properties, Britannia, Dabur India and Marico.




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Reliance Industries share price jumps even as Sensex falls; RIL denies Jio investment buzz

Reliance Industries share price extended gains in the late afternoon trade on Thursday, jumping over 2%, while headline index Sensex mostly traded in red, even as RIL denied the buzz about talks with Microsoft for further investment in its telecom arm Jio.




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Franklin Templeton CEO tells why India debt funds closed down: This SEBI rule ‘orphaned’ funds

Franklin Templeton shifted part of the blame for the recent winding down of six of its debt mutual funds on to capital markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India.




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Rakesh Jhunjhunwala recently bought 2.75 lakh shares of Rallis India, but here’s why you should not

Among one of the companies that ended up in Rakesh Jhunjhunwala’s shopping cart during the January-March quarter was another Tata Group company -- Rallis India.




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Mutual fund distributors body wants RBI to buy troubled portfolios from fund houses, pay investors

In the wake of Franklin Templeton wounding up six of its debt mutual fund schemes, India’s largest mutual fund distributors body has urged the Reserve Bank of India to set up a SPV to buy portfolios from troubled fund houses and pay off investors.




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Share Market Highlights: Sensex, Nifty end higher in volatile trade; RIL, HUL, Infosys among top index contributors

Share Market News Today | Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices Highlights: Out of 30 Sensex stocks, 16 scrips finished trade in red with NTPC as top laggard, down 4 per cent, followed by M&M, Axis Bank, IndusInd Bank and State Bank of India (SBI)




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SEBI rebukes Franklin Templeton after CEO’s comments: ‘Focus on returning investors money’

Market regulator SEBI, late Thursday night advised Franklin Templeton to focus on returning investor’s money after the fund house decided to wound up six of its debt mutual fund schemes.




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Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries steps up to trim debt, mulls Rs 7500 cr Asian Paints stake sale

Reliance Industries controlled by Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest person, is in discussions with banks for a potential sale of its 4.9% stake in Asian Paints Ltd. through a series of block trades.




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HUL share price up 4% after GSK, Horlicks sell 5.7% stake but down 16% in one month, should you buy?

Hindustan Unilever share price jumped 4% on Friday to trade at Rs 2,070 per share on the NSE Nifty-50 after a bulk deal that saw French multinational investment bank and financial services company, Societe Generale buy 1,29,00,000 shares.




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RIL, HUL lift Sensex 200 pts higher, Nifty slips from day’s high; check what kept markets volatile

Various news flows viz., stake sale by Reliance Industries in its subsidiary Jio Platforms, block deal in HUL, government’s decision to increase the tax on retail fuel etc., influenced the market movements.




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Making effort to ensure orderly, equitable exit to investors: Franklin Templeton MF

Last month, the fund house had closed six of its debt funds, citing redemption pressures and lack of liquidity in the bond markets. 




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Gas Utilities – Industrial PNG, CNG volumes likely to be hit

FY21/22e EPS lowered by 22-33/9-13%; softer LNG prices a positive; GUJGA and MGL are to be preferred.




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Why small cardamom exports to Saudi Arabia likely to rise this Ramadan season

Small cardamom exports to Saudi Arabia are likely to increase during the current Ramadan season with the Saudi authorities agreeing to accept the globally accepted Codex Food Standards of the United Nations.




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Franklin Templeton effect: Credit risk funds see AUM decline by Rs 19,000 crore in April

Credit risk funds have seen assets decline by nearly Rs 19,000 crore in April as investors rushed to redeem their money after the closure of six debt schemes by Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund, data showed.




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COVID-19 woes: Marico net profit declines 3% in Q4

Consumer goods major Marico posted a 3% year-on-year (y-o-y) decline in net profit to Rs 204 crore for the quarter ended March 31, while the revenue from operations, at Rs 1,496 crore, declined 7% y-o-y.




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Bhel’s Make in India push to its idle plants; invites global firms to use its manufacturing facilities

With an eye at coronavirus as an opportunity, to put its idle plants to work, state-run Bhel has offered its manufacturing facilities to be used by global manufacturing firms looking to shift base.




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Calcutta HC division bench allows MP Birla Group firms to publish AGM results

Significantly, this was the latest twist in the long battle over the will of Late Priyamvada Devi Birla being fought between the Birla family and the Lodhas.




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New benchmark bonds likely to see coupon below 6%, say experts

A Barclays report estimates that the central government’s revenue benefit from the additional hikes in fuel taxes could be as much as Rs 1.4 lakh crore on an annual basis.




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Analyst Corner: SBI Life – upgrade to ‘buy’ with fair value of Rs 1,000

SBI’s focus on the insurance business during a challenging year and SBI Life’s technology push to improve digital agent and client engagements remain crucial.




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NSE readying its systems to handle crude-crash like crises

The National Stock Exchange (NSE) on Wednesday said it was working to equip its systems to handle crises such as that caused by the crash in crude prices.




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Why digital upskilling isn’t a choice anymore

With the upcoming trends in technology, and with the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, India can meaningfully leverage its demographic dividend only with sustained efforts to upskill its large workforce




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Connected future: Digital to spearhead India’s $5 trillion economy ambition

Digital technologies have the potential to create $1 trillion economic value, says EY




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Cyberattacks get a new dimension: Political and economic intentions of cybercriminals

Threat trends show political and economic intentions of cybercriminals.




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Delivery roadblocks: E-commerce players grapple with increased demand and more

Retail experts estimate that the current situation might wipe off 10% of e-commerce companies’ annual GMV in the country.




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Expansion of equalisation levy: Why it’s not well-timed

By expanding the scope of equalisation levy to cover foreign e-commerce platforms, India has rushed to incrementally cast its net wide insofar as the digital service user-base is concerned.




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Techsplained: How Alexa, Siri, Google listen you to provide search results

As IBM Watson has been able to achieve some scale, the company believes that by putting the NLP technology in commercial use it will be able to expand its capabilities much further.




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Moratorium on power charges: After Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh to give relief to industrial consumers

The ongoing lockdown is seen to take a toll on the finances of the state-run discoms which are finding it difficult to continue meter reading exercises and collect payments from consumers. To make matters worse for discoms, their revenues are seen to decrease on account of lower usage by high paying consumers such as the railways, industrial and commercial users.




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Digital payments slide in March as consumption slows

At present, people are choosing to access cash through the BC channel rather than going to branches where they will come in contact with other people or to ATMs which are not being sanitised.




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Safety Matters: A look at some offbeat group video calling apps that score well on privacy

App Annie’s latest report highlights that Zoom is the most downloaded app on iOS amongst all users. But it has also put focus on privacy and security.




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Now streaming, more than ever: Netflix, Amazon, others need to up their game

OTT platforms see a surge in consumption and subscriber count, as viewers seek fresh content.




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Covid-19 expected to mar FY21 for airlines

Passenger traffic for carriers is expected to register de-growth of 20-25% in FY21, CARE Ratings has said.