Top stocks to buy (AI image) Stock market recommendations: According to Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd, the top stock picks for the week (starting October 6, 2025) are Acme Solar, and Hero Motocorp. Let’s take a look: Stock Name CMP (Rs) Target (Rs) Upside (%) Acme Solar 287 370 29% Hero Motocorp 5545 6168 11% […]
Tata Capital IPO opens today: Should you apply for Rs 15,512 crore offer? Check key details
Tata Capital IPO Day 1: Tata Capital’s much-awaited Rs 15,512 crore IPO, one of the biggest public offerings of 2025, opened for subscription on Monday, October 6 and will close on Wednesday, October 8. The price band has been set at Rs 310–Rs 326 per share, with a lot size of 46 shares (minimum investment […]
Festive cheer for India Inc: Households splurge on upgrades, go premium
MUMBAI: From smartphones priced over Rs 20,000 to large TV sets, washing machines, premium furniture and AI appliances, Indians splurged on big-ticket purchases and upgrades this Navratri-Dussehra season, keeping up with the premiumisation trend that has been defining festive shopping for quite some time now. Savings made from GST reductions have only allowed more people […]
Stock market today: Nifty50 above 24,900 mark; BSE Sensex rises over 200 points
Stock market today: Indian equity benchmarks traded in green on Monday, supported by strong buying in banking and IT stocks. BSE Sensex climbed 200.80 points (0.25%) to 81,407.97, while the NSE Nifty 50 advanced 62.20 points (0.25%) to 24,956.45.Earlier at 9:37 am, the Sensex was up 94.83 points at 81,302.00, and the Nifty gained 28.85 […]
Asian stocks: Japan’s Nikkei hits record high after Takaichi’s election win; yen weakens, markets mixed
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index surged more than 4% on Monday, hitting record highs after the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) elected Sanae Takaichi, an ultra-conservative and close ally of late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, as its new leader, paving the way for her to become Japan’s first female prime minister.The Nikkei jumped 3.9% to […]
India, EU trade talks commence today
NEW DELHI: Senior officials of India and the 27-nation European Union (EU) will commence the next round of talks for a proposed free trade agreement today in Brussels to iron out differences on issues for early conclusion of the negotiations, an official said.This will be the 14th round of negotiations between the two sides. Commerce […]
FPIs sell equities worth 23,885 crore in September
NEW DELHI: Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) remained net sellers of Indian equities in September, withdrawing Rs 23,885 crore and taking year-to-date outflow to Rs 1.58 lakh crore. This marks the third consecutive month of withdrawals, following heavy outflows of Rs 34,990 crore in August and Rs 17,700 crore in July, data obtained from depositories showed. […]
Alternatives to OTPs will make payments safer: Visa
MUMBAI: RBI‘s move to get merchants to store tokens instead of card data since 2022 has cut down frauds and improved transaction success rates. Now, allowing alternatives to one-time passwords (OTP) for authentication is expected to make the system more efficient. Speaking to TOI, Visa’s head of products and innovation for South Asia, Ramakrishna Gopalan, […]
‘US tariffs: Uncertainty bigger than Covid, financial crisis’
NEW DELHI: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank chief economist Erik Berglof says that US tariffs have created more uncertainty than the Covid pandemic or the global financial crisis and argues that global supply chains are here to stay. Excerpts from an interview with TOI:What do you make of current global situation in the wake of the […]
Netflix vs Elon Musk: Streaming platform shares fall 5% in a week; here’s why Tesla CEO is not watching it anymore
Shares of streaming platform Netflix have tumbled almost 5% over the past 5 trading sessions ever since Tesla CEO Elon Musk has started urging his followers to boycott the company and cancel their subscriptions.Netflix shares fell on Friday, marking their biggest weekly decline since April, even as the broader market rallied. Though major indices rose […]