Rising costs, competition leave paint sector in need of fresh coat

Festival season may add vibrant strokes to volumes, but margins remain a blank canvas. Paint companies have lagged behind their consumer peers in the past year. Photograph: Courtesy, Shalimar......

Mid-, small-cap stocks on a roll but experts see bubble ahead

Market rally, especially in mid-caps, has also been driven by a pick-up in the monsoon and the government’s resolve to get the GST Bill cleared in the recent session of Parliament Buoyed by......

Good Q2 GDP hopes fuel 257-point Sensex rally

Markets closed for the week on a strong note on renewed interest from the domestic institutional investors who have been net sellers thus far. The gains came in ahead of the second quarter GDP and......

Stock picks for today

The market has found life quite difficult and rather unsustainable at higher levels and has ended in negative territory. Banks, consumer durables, capital goods, FMCG, IT, pharma and the PSU......