Nikita Prasad
Nikita is a business news editor and writer with nearly a decade of experience in the digital media industry. She specializes in financial markets, commodities, macroeconomic trends, and monetary policy transitions to demystify complex jargon into sharp, coherent stories for readers. By analysing the impact of market trends and corporate developments, she brings data-backed feature stories relevant for retail and institutional investors. Over the years, she has built a diverse skill set from field-to-desk reporting and currently contributes to steer business news coverage and editorial strategy for NDTV Profit Digital. She has worked in India's leading business newsrooms such as Financial Express, Moneycontrol, and Mint in her previous stints where she pioneered the platform’s coverage of national infrastructure projects such as Delhi Metro, RRTS, to the US Federal Reserve policy shifts.
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Motilal Oswal Share Price Rallies 5% After UBS Initiates Coverage With 'Buy' — Check Target Price
Motilal Oswal share price rallied 5% after global brokerage UBS initiated coverage on the stock with a bullish 'buy' rating. UBS has pegged a target price of Rs 1,150 on the stock.
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Small-Cap Stock Under Rs 500: Afcons Infra Rallies 8% On Rs 5,301-Crore Order Win For Vadhvan Port
Small-Cap Stock Under Rs 500: Shares of Afcons Infrastructure opened at Rs 335, over 6% higher than its previous close of Rs 315.50 and extended gains to 8% hitting an intraday high of Rs 346.50 so far during the session.
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Oil Prices On June 10: Brent Crude Edges Higher From Seven-Week Low To $92 As US Strikes Iran
Oil Prices On June 10: Brent crude futures last traded 0.9% higher at $92 in early hours on Wednesday after sharply dropping $2.80, or 3.0%, to settle at $91.45 per barrel on June 9. US WTI crude slid $3.10, or 3.4%, to settle at $88.20.
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Shankar Sharma's Hot Take: SIPs Are A Great Product, Just Not For Retail Investors
In an exclusive interaction with NDTV Profit's Managing Editor Tamanna Inamdar at the channel's Townhall Event, Shankar Sharma highlighted that SIPs have only made money for the institutional investors, but has been like a 'forced EMI' for retail investors.
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Stock Market Crash News Today Highlights: Nifty Settles Below 23,150, Sensex Drops 700 Points As Indices Hit Two-Month Low On Global Jitters
Stock Market News Today Highlights: Sensex, Nifty settled at two-month low levels over the broad-based global tech selloff and renewed Israel-Iran geopolitical tensions. All Nifty sectors ended in red. Wipro and Jio Financial Services were top laggards in the Nifty pack
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Yes Bank Gets Tax Demand Notice From Maharashtra GST Department
Yes Bank will take appropriate steps, including contesting the Order through appeal within the prescribed timelines, as per its statement
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RBI Monetary Policy Highlights: 2-6% Inflation Target Band Sacrosanct For RBI, Says Guv Malhotra
RBI Monetary Policy Highlights: The six-member MPC voted unanimously to keep the benchmark policy repo rate unchanged at 5.25% and sustained a 'neutral' stance, in line with D-Street estimates and economists expectations.
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'India Isn't The Problem': Morgan Stanley Pegs 15% EPS Target, Flags FIIs Chasing North Asian AI Boom
Morgan Stanley's Jonathan Garner said the shift is less about structural flaws in the Indian economy and more about the explosive, AI-driven earnings growth pulling foreign capital into North Asian markets.
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Capex Is King: Morgan Stanley Bets On Defence, Large-Caps; But Crude Oil Is India's Achilles' Heel
Morgan Stanley's Garner highlighted the vulnerabilities of South Asian economies to global oil prices and shared the top sectoral bets for investors.
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TCS Share Price Slumps 7%, Infosys, HCL Tech Fall 3% As Nifty IT Snaps Two-Day Win Streak
Shares of Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, HCLTech, and Tech Mahindra dropped 2-6% after opening bell, snapping a two-day winning streak after Nvidia's GTC Taipei Keynote event at COMPUTEX 2026.
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Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention: China Knows It Better | The Reason Why
Whether Huawei is better than Nvidia or TSMC is not really the point. The bigger question is whether sanctions can prevent China from catching up technologically.
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TCS, Infosys Rally 6% On Global AI Frenzy; Nifty IT Index Jumps For Second Straight Day
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang affirmed that Indian IT firms are well-placed for AI implementation while adressing GTC Taipei Keynote at COMPUTEX 2026 Event.
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Zee Entertainment Shares Rally 6% On FIFA Partnership For World Cup 2026
Taking a strategic steps forward in building a diversified and value-accretive sports portfolio, the company announced that 'Z' will showcase key FIFA events for eight consecutive years in a row between 2026 to 2034.
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GST Growth Moderates In May Amid Robust Underlying Economic Activity
Gross GST collections stood at Rs 1.94 lakh crore in May 2026, while net collections after refunds came in at Rs 1.67 lakh crore, registering year-on-year growth of 3.2%.
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Nifty IT Index Jumps 4% Intraday As TCS, Infosys, HCL Tech Rally Amid Global AI Frenzy
Shares of Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Wipro, and HCLTech rallied 2-4% driving the Nifty IT index 4% higher to hit an intraday high of 30,177.50 so far during the session amid the global AI rally.
