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Indian stock exchanges, BSE and NSE, will remain closed on April 10, 2025, for Mahavir Jayanti, with trading resuming on April 11. Investors are advised to plan trades ahead, as the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) will also observe a half-day holiday.

The S&P 500 surged 9.5%, an amount that would count as a good year for the market. It had been sinking earlier in the day on worries that Trump s trade war could drag the global economy into a recession. But then came the posting on social media that investors worldwide had been waiting and wishing for.

Nasdaq jumped more than 10% as stocks hit a rebound from lows after US President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on tariffs imposed worldwide, except China upon which he raised duties to 125%.

U.S. Treasury investors were left bruised on Wednesday despite a temporary pause in U.S. tariffs, as some funds were forced to sell bonds in a dash for cash while others called into question the bonds status as the world s safest asset.

Revenue growth will likely remain in single digits for the fourth quarter in a row. Given a higher base in the form of strong growth in the corresponding quarter of the previous year, net profit growth is expected to be slower after growing in double digits for the previous two quarters. Banking, financial and select auto and pharma companies are expected to support revenue growth. In the year-ago quarter, revenue and net profit had grown by 10.6% and 31.9%.

The regulator issued its final observations on the draft papers last week. When a company receives a final observation from Sebi, it s a signal from the regulator to go ahead with the IPO process.

Financial services received the highest inflows at ₹17,585 crore in the second-half of the month after they sold these shares worth over ₹3,000 crore in the first-half of the month. In 2024, overseas investors pulled ₹58,280 crore out of the shares in the sector.

Tariffs of this magnitude would be extremely disruptive to the US and the global economy and bring in a very high risk of an economic recession in the US. If tariffs remain at this magnitude, prices will not decline. So, the initial shock is a stagflationary one. The market was far from pricing in such strong shocks to the economy.

Despite the robust bull run in Indian equities since 2020, a significant portion of listed stocks, nearly 10%, are still trading below their pre-Covid levels. Prominent names like Whirlpool, PVR Inox, and RBL Bank have experienced declines, erasing earlier gains. Some fundamentally sound companies, including Aditya Birla Fashion and Hindustan Unilever, are hovering near their pre-pandemic values.

In today s trade, shares of BPCL, Adani Wilmar, Vodafone Idea, Cyient, Concord Biotech among others will be in focus due to various news developments.