Retail investors continue to bet big on ETFs

If 2025 has a significant trend to throw up from the mutual fund industry, it is this: Investors are increasingly looking at exchange traded funds (ETFs – metals and equity)…

Broker’s call: Orkla India (Buy)

Target: ₹800 CMP: ₹612 Orkla India, led by its strong legacy brands MTR and Eastern, enjoys a dominant market share in its core states of Karnataka, Kerala, AP and Telangana.…

Offers for sale account for 63 per cent of IPO fund-raise in 2025

The funds raised in primary issuances have been buoyant throughout this year, with record retail and domestic institutional participation, and have largely provided exits for existing investors and facilitated promoters…

Axis Energy, Reliance Industries emerge top bidders in coal gasification block auctions

Hyderabad-based renewable energy firm Axis Energy and Reliance Industries Ltd emerged as top bidders in the latest auction of coal block auctions aimed at boosting domestic coal gasification and cleaner…

Indian refiners balance barrel economics with geopolitical, trade tensions as 2025 redraws energy flows

The year 2025 has been an outlier for the Indian oil and gas sector as refiners deftly navigated geopolitical and trade tensions with the US imposing sanctions on two of…

Sensex, Nifty end marginally lower ahead of Christmas; Trent, Shriram Finance gain

Equity benchmark indices ended marginally lower on Wednesday, after a flat opening, as investors remained cautious ahead of the Christmas holiday amid mixed global cues. Persistent FII selling continued to…

India’s mustard acreage up 4.3% as of Dec 15

The all-India mustard acreage has been estimated at around 84.67 lakh hectares (lh) till December 15, 2025, against 81.16 lh in the corresponding perioda a year ago, a growth of…

Meta rakes it in, yet still borrows billions for AI

Meta Platforms looks like a money-printing machine. So why has it been loading up on billions of dollars in debt to pay for its new data centers? It turns out…

Why India Stopped Presenting The Budget In The Evening — The Morning Shift Explained

New Delhi: For several decades after Independence, India followed the tradition of presenting the Union Budget at 5 pm in Parliament. This practice was a colonial-era legacy, rooted in the…

Budget 2026: What Is the Economic Survey And Why Does It Matter? Key Facts Explained

New Delhi: The countdown to the Union Budget 2026 will officially begin with the presentation of the Economic Survey for FY2025-26, which Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will table in Parliament…