Marketcrash

Sensex ends below 17,000; IT, realty biggest losers

IT, realty and metal stocks were under considerable pressure throughout session

Market crash: Stocks that weathered the storm

Firstpost analysed Nifty-50 companies and we picked up 10 stocks that did not fall as steeply as their counterparts in the index.

Market history: Top 10 Sensex crashes

Hold on, in the middle of the growing concern, the 500-odd points fall in the Sensex is not as steep a fall if one compares it with the falls in the past. Firstpost did a quick analysis to check the top 10 biggest dives in the history of the Sensex.

Stock Market Crash: Don't lose sight of the positives

So far, it's the retail investors who were selling heavily, but institutional equity investors in Asia are a lot more cautious and are not completely cutting down their positions.<br /><br /> <br /><br />

Gold loses steam on US recession fears; silver slumps

Gold recoiled from a record high in volatile trade on Thursday, falling as much as 1% as deepening losses on Wall Street amid mounting economic fears prompted investors to liquidate bullion profits to cover margin calls elsewhere.

Sensex closes 371 points down, hits new 2011 low

An estimated Rs 2,50,000 crore was wiped off from total investors' wealth, measured in terms of the combined value of all listed stocks, in about three-and-a-half hours of trade.

Winds of fear blow into Asia amid recession fears

Asian stocks tumbled 5 percent on Friday after panic triggered the worst sell-off on Wall Street since the global financial crisis, prompting investors to slash positions and scramble for cash and government bonds.

132 companies see all-time low level in morning trade on BSE

The Bombay Stock Exchange Sensex fell by 351.37 points in opening trade to 16,118.42 today, while the National Stock Exchange's 50-share Nifty index slipped below the 4,900-point mark with a fall of over 100 points.

Time to buy equity now, says HDFC's Prashant Jain

Jain expects the Indian economy to grow faster over the next ten years than in the previous ten years.

Recession watch: Why QE3 is sneaking up on us

While the Fed has come out and admitted a sagging job market, damp consumer spending and a depressed housing market, the third round of quantitative or credit easing will likely hit us sooner than we think given the looming recession concern.