Maharashtra's Ready Reckoner rates are likely to become more realistic as the state completes GIS mapping of land parcels, providing accurate data for assessing RR rates, which have remained unchanged since 2022. Maharashtra Remote Sensing Application Centre has completed GIS mapping of rural areas and 50% of urban regions.

Siemens' comments on lacking private capex traction in India led to a sharp decline in capital goods stocks, with Siemens shares plunging 10% and ABB India shares falling 6%. Despite this, analysts remain optimistic about the Indian capex cycle, expecting private-sector capex to intensify and drive earnings growth starting Q4 FY25.

Nearly 83% of FPI flows in the first fortnight of Dec were concentrated in three sectors - financial services, IT, and real estate. Overseas investors poured ₹7,424 crore into financial services, ₹6,754 crore into IT, and ₹4,689 crore into real estate stocks in this period. These investors sold ₹5,337 crore worth of oil & gas stocks, ₹1,823 crore in auto stocks, and ₹1,655 crore in FMCG shares.

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The MCG enforcement team has imposed a Rs 5 lakh fine on a builder in Sector 113 for violating the construction ban under GRAP-4, and also issued a Rs 5,000 fine to a motorcycle service centre in Wazirabad for littering. The corporation teams are taking action against those who have not stopped construction activities despite the ban.

U.S. stocks rallied to close out the trading week on Friday after two lackluster sessions as a cooler-than-expected inflation report and comments from Federal Reserve officials eased worries about the path of interest rates. The latest inflation report in the form of the Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) index showed a 2.4% rise in November on an annual basis.

The Indian markets erased all the last four weeks gains and posted biggest weekly fall in more than 2 years. The benchmark indices ended in red for all the trading sessions of the week amid global sell-off post US Fed cautious stance on the pace of future rate cuts, which led to huge FIIs selling. This week, BSE Sensex shed 4,091.53 points or 4.98 percent to close at 78,041.59.

Gold Rate and Silver Price Today on December 21, 2024: Gold prices experienced a modest decrease on Saturday. The cost of 24 carat gold in India is Rs.7696.3 per gram, reflecting an decrease of ₹ 330.0. The cost of 22 carat gold in India is 7056.3 per gram, a fall of ₹300.0.The price fluctuation of 24 carat gold over the past week is recorded at 0.08%.

Indian equity markets plummeted, erasing four weeks of gains, with the Sensex falling nearly 5%, while 22 smallcaps delivered double-digit returns, led by Fairchem Organics with 49% returns. Only General Insurance Corp rose in double digits in the midcap segment, and Sun Pharma was the least affected among Sensex stocks.

With December so far delivering Scrooge-like returns in an otherwise stellar year for U.S. stocks, investors hope the tail end of 2024 offers some holiday cheer, but warn of potential headwinds. The benchmark S&P 500 is up more than 23% for 2024, even after a major stumble this week, and Wall Street has historically often enjoyed a strong annual close.

Oil prices settled little changed on Friday as markets weighed Chinese demand and interest rate-cut expectations after data showed cooling U.S. inflation. Brent crude futures closed up 6 cents, or 0.08%, at $72.94 a barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures rose 8 cents, or 0.12%, at $69.46 per barrel. Both benchmarks ended the week down about 2.5%.

Indian Oil Corporation's board has approved a ₹4,382.21 crore joint venture with MCPI Private Ltd to set up a yarn project in Odisha, with Indian Oil's equity contribution amounting to ₹657.33 crore. The project includes a 900 TPD continuous polymerization unit and downstream units for various yarn products.

Novo Nordisk's new obesity drug CagriSema helped patients lose 22.7% of their weight in a late-stage trial, falling short of the expected 25% result, causing the company's share price to drop 19.5% to its lowest since August 2023. Reuters quoted Novo Nordisk as saying on Friday, adding the results were 25 percent they had expected.

The board of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) may well have refused to clear the SEBI (Prohibition of Unexplained Suspicious Trading Activities in the Securities Market) Regulations at its meeting earlier this week, but that is not the end of the story for the much-feared and tough set of rules to act against wrongdoers and offenders.

Standard Capital Markets Limited, a prominent NBFC, informed that the Board of Directors of the Company in its meeting held and approved the allotment of 1,500 unrated, unlisted, secured NCDs, of face value of Rs 1,00,000 each at an issue price of Rs 1,00,000 each aggregating to Rs 15,00,00,000 on Private Placement basis in terms of Private placement cum application letter.