व्यापार Business

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• 13 November 2026 · Rate-hike fear ends a three-day rally. Sensex sheds 319 as crude returns to $96. Every sector closed red on Friday as October inflation above the RBI band and a rebound in oil pushed investors to price higher interest rates. The fear gauge fell. This was a repricing, not a panic.
• 13 November 2026 · Retail inflation hits 6.09% and breaches the RBI ceiling. Food is doing the damage. October CPI rose to 6.09% from 5.54% in September. Food inflation reached 8.94% and onion prices were 116% higher than a year ago.
• 12 November 2026 · Rabi fertiliser subsidy rises 64% to ₹62,370 crore. Imported inputs are writing the bill. The Union Cabinet approved nutrient-based subsidy rates for phosphatic and potassic fertilisers for October to March. The government points to world prices of urea, DAP, potash and sulphur.
• 11 November 2026 · Sensex rises 1,400 points on an Iran pause. A pause is not a peace. Markets reopened after Diwali with the Sensex up as much as 1,411 points. Cheaper oil, a US hold on fresh Iran strikes and eight days of foreign buying did the work.
• 10 November 2026 · Blackstone set to take 15% of IIFL Finance. Long money for secured lending. Reports put Blackstone’s cheque at about ₹5,000 crore for a 15% stake, with the promoters adding about ₹1,200 crore. IIFL Finance’s board meets today to consider the raise.
• 9 November 2026 · State banks carry the Nifty past 25,000. IT slips as money rotates away from the AI trade. The Sensex closed at 81,106.65 and the Nifty at 25,044.65 on Monday. PSU banks rose more than 3%. IT was the weakest sector. Markets are shut on Tuesday for Balipratipada.
• 8 November 2026 · Samvat 2083 opens flat. The Muhurat rally fades as markets price earnings, not festivals. The Sensex closed Sunday’s Diwali session at 80,999 and the Nifty at 24,986. An eight-session run ended. Pharma and metals rose. IT, telecom and private banks slipped.
• 7 November 2026 · Karnataka finds 31% ethanol in petrol. Oil companies say 19%. One joint test can settle it. Karnataka says some petrol samples carry up to 31.2% ethanol. Indian Oil, BPCL and HPCL say 893 samples across India met the 20% standard and ask for joint testing.
• 7 November 2026 · Sebi’s new settlement rules start today. Small cases get a fast track and an online form. The 2026 settlement regulations replace the 2018 framework from 7 November. Settlements up to ₹10 lakh with no disgorgement can move through a faster procedure.
• 6 November 2026 · Sensex and Nifty post their best week since 2021. Foreign money came back for banks. The Sensex rose 1,718 points to 81,028 on Friday and the Nifty closed above 25,000. Both gained more than 8.5% in a week when Wall Street and Asia fell hard.
• 5 November 2026 · Sebi sets one $5 million limit on rupee derivatives. Above it, show real exposure. A Sebi circular on Thursday replaces contract-by-contract limits with a single cap across all rupee pairs and exchanges. It follows the RBI’s cut from $100 million in October.
• 5 November 2026 · Brent falls 8.7% on a US election. India should bank the relief, not plan on it. Oil closed at $94.62 after Republicans lost Congress. The rupee and the Nifty gain from it. The Gulf’s supply problem has not moved.
• 4 November 2026 · Cabinet backs 92 GWh of storage. The test is how much of it gets made in India. ₹14,500 crore in viability gap funding goes to grid storage, and ₹2,814 crore to lithium and nickel processing. The money is approved. The bid rules will decide who builds.
• 3 November 2026 · Sitharaman will “consider” the LTCG case. Markets gain about 5% in four sessions. The Finance Minister recognised the foreign investors’ complaint and promised no cut. On Tuesday the Sensex rose 1,225 points to 76,917.85. Oil, earnings and foreign buying share the credit.
• 3 November 2026 · NSE’s first results as a listed company: up 23% on a year, down 17% on a quarter. Last year’s ₹1,297 crore Sebi provision flatters the annual number. Cash market volume grew 24%. Options premium grew 3%.
• 3 November 2026 · SBI earned ₹23,038 crore. Before the stake sale, operating profit fell 1.4%. State Bank’s second-quarter profit rose 14.3%. A one-time gain and lower provisions did much of the lifting. Loans grew 17.84%. Deposits grew 12.27%.
• 2 November 2026 · Sebi asks the Centre to drop LTCG for foreign investors. The Budget decides. Reuters reports Sebi wants long-term capital gains tax scrapped for foreign portfolio investors. It is a recommendation, not a decision. In July the government told Parliament it had no such plan.
• 2 November 2026 · Record car sales in October. Maruti’s 59% export jump is the bigger number. Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Kia and Mahindra posted their best domestic months on record and Tata Motors grew 21%. Maruti also shipped close to 50,000 vehicles abroad.
• 1 November 2026 · GST hits ₹2.31 lakh crore in October. Lower rates are now paying for themselves. Gross GST rose 22.9% in October, with import revenue up 42%. A year after the rate cuts, the tax base is widening, not shrinking.
• 31 October 2026 · Six months to redesign Indian banking: Suresh N Patel to lead the Centre’s review. The Finance Ministry has set up the High Level Committee on Banking for Viksit Bharat. Its brief runs from prudential norms and capital needs to the cost of credit, priority sector lending and AI.
• 31 October 2026 · Fiscal deficit hits 42% of the year’s target by September as excise falls 22%. The Centre’s deficit for April to September was ₹7.14 lakh crore, against 36.5% of target a year ago. Capex is ahead of pace. Revenue is behind it.
• 30 October 2026 · Bank of Baroda posts its highest quarterly profit as bad loans fall to 1.78%. Net profit rose 35.8% to ₹6,532 crore in July to September. Fee and other income nearly doubled. Advances grew 18.3% and gross NPAs fell to 1.78%.
• 29 October 2026 · India puts ₹10,000 crore behind making the boxes its trade moves in. The Container Manufacturing Promotion Scheme pays makers for output, cuts their loan costs and funds testing. The target is a tenfold rise in capacity to 7.5 lakh TEUs a year.
• 28 October 2026 · Jio Platforms lists at a 21% premium as India’s largest IPO meets the market. Shares opened at ₹1,358 on NSE and BSE against an issue price of ₹1,119. At that price Reliance’s digital arm is worth about ₹12.5 lakh crore.
• 28 October 2026 · Tata Motors takes control of Iveco as its €3.4 billion offer turns unconditional. Shareholders tendered 87.81% of Iveco’s capital. Tata’s commercial vehicle arm will hold about 89.42% net of treasury shares when it pays on 30 October.
• 26 October 2026 · RBI opens a second data centre in Odisha to keep India’s payments running. Prime Minister Modi opened the RBI’s ₹169 crore data centre and cybersecurity institute near Bhubaneswar on Sunday. It will host mission-critical payment and settlement systems.
• 23 October 2026 · Jio Platforms’ ₹30,213 crore IPO closes with record investor demand. Reliance’s digital arm drew more than 12 million applications for India’s biggest share sale. Listing is due on 28 October at a valuation of about ₹10.3 lakh crore.
• 23 October 2026 · Sensex and Nifty slide for a fourth session as Brent nears $117. Oil and Gulf shipping fears pulled Indian stocks lower through the week. Mid and small caps fell hardest, and Swiggy dropped 16 per cent after its results.