Vakrangee gained approximately 4 per cent intraday as the company launched domestic money transfer services at its Nextgen outlets.

The board of oil explorer ONGC has approved a share buyback program for approximately 25 crore equity shares of the company at Rs. 159 per share. This is the company's first-ever share buyback program.

Omkar Speciality Chemicals can now produce Halquinol product on receiving the grant of the process patent. The stocks hit its upper circuit limit on Thursday morning. 

Bank officer's unions have called for a strike on December 21 and 26 which may keep banks closed until December 27, except on Monday, December 24. 

Following stocks are close to their 52-week low as at 2.04 p.m. on December 20, 2018.

Om Metals Infraprojects bagged an order of Rs. 615.16 crore from the Water Resources Department, Government of Rajasthan. The contract is awarded on EPC basis and is inclusive of operations and maintenance for 5 years.

The markets on December 20, 2018 opened gap down. BSE Sensex is trading at 36,370.70, down by 113.63 points and the Nifty is trading at 10,932.75, down by 34.55 points. 

Indian youth are moving towards mutual funds as their preferred investment avenue. We have received a query on starting a MF investment from one such young investor. Let’s find out what he has to say.

The US Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points on Wednesday. The Indian equity market reacted to this hike and was down more than 200 points in the morning session on Thursday.

Overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 1.40 crore contracts with a turnover of Rs. 8,34,692.34 crore.