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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Stock Market News Today Highlights: Nifty Settles Below 24,000, Sensex Down 300 Points; Auto, IT Top Drags
Stock Market News Today Highlights: Sensex and Nifty 50 slipped in trade, pausing after their longest weekly winning streak of 2026, as concerns over a weak monsoon blunted relief from easing Middle East tensions and lower crude prices.
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Valuation Comfort: JPMorgan's Mookim Prefers India's Large-Caps For Steady Earnings Compounding
In the current market scenario, Mookim believes that given India's status as a duration asset with multi-year earnings growth potential, 'investors can happily buy a bunch of 'largecaps' and wait patiently for earnings to compound'.
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Asian Markets Today: South Korea's Kospi Drops Over 2%, Japan's Nikkei Falls On Renewed US-Iran Tensions
Asian Markets Today: The Kospi dropped 2.29% at open, while the small-cap Kosdaq added 0.97%. Australia's benchmark S&P/ASX 200 was 0.41% higher.
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NDTV Profit Business Leadership Awards: Meet The CEO Of The Year Nominees In Public And Private Sectors
The 'CEO Of The Year' is awarded to an individual who has demonstrated exceptional leadership in scaling an enterprise, driving strategic growth, and shaping industry impact through decisive execution, long-term vision and market leadership.
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Indian Equities To Broaden Beyond Megacaps: Market Expert Bets On AI, Select Mid And Small Caps
Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC's Harish Krishnan says narrow market leadership rarely lasts and expects investors to return to India's structural growth story.
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Crypto Market Has Lost Equivalent Of Half Of India's GDP In Eight Months — Here's Why
The total crypto market cap stood at $4.3 trillion in October 2025, which is now down to $2 trillion. This meansdigital asset market has lost $2.3 trillion in just under eight months, according to The Kobeissi Letter's post.
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A Decade Of Growth: Trent's Valuation Swells Nearly 50x To Rs 1.73 Lakh Crore Under Noel Tata
A Decade Of Growth: Over the last decade, Trent Ltd. has transformed from a steady apparel business into a colossal retail empire, witnessing its valuation swell by49.9 times or 4,988% to a staggering Rs 1,73,000 crore.
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CCEA May Approve Landmark Rs 26,000 Crore Emirates NBD-RBL Bank Deal Today
The transaction involves an investment of approximately Rs 26,000 crore ($2.75 billion) by Emirates NBD to acquire a controlling 60% stake in the Indian private lender.
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Stock Market Crash News Today Highlights: Nifty Settles Below 23,850, Sensex Drops 890 Points; Metals, IT Top Drags
The NSE Nifty 50 and BSE Sensex fell 1.16% each to 23,824.10 and 76,200.68, respectively dragged by metals and IT stocks. Nifty pharma was the only sector that settled in green.
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'India Is Late': Emkay's Manish Sonthalia Warns Against AI Hype, Finds Sweet Spot In 'Factories Of World'
Addressing the intense investor euphoria surrounding AI and data center themes, Sonthalia urged strict caution, advising investors to look at these hype-driven narratives "deeply under a microscope."
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This Small-Cap BSE-Listed AI Stock Rallied Over 40% In Two Days: Here's Why
Small-Cap Stock Under Rs 50: The AI stock has soared 33% in one month and 18% on a year-to-date basis. However, Blue Cloud Softech has delivered massive multibagger returns of 465% over the past five years.
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Indian Equities To Bounce Back; Says Morgan Stanley's Ridham Desai; Spots 4 Winning Sectors
In the latest MS India Strategy Report, Ridham Desai stated that D-Street is poised to reverse its recent trailing underperformance against global peers.
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Fertiliser Stocks Rally As 12 Supply Vessels Resume Journey To India After Being Stranded At Strait Of Hormuz
Shares of Fertilizers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd.rose 4.5% to Rs. 932, whileChambal Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd rose 3% to hit an intraday high of Rs 492 apiece on the NSE.
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Cipla Share Price Gains 4% As Citi Maintains Bullish Stance For 90-Day Momentum: Check Target Price
Cipla share price opened at Rs 1,372 against a previous close of Rs 1,351.80 and extended gains by over 4% to hit an intraday high of Rs 1,409 apiece so far on the NSE.
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BSE-Listed Small-Cap Stock Soars 17% On AI Collaboration Talks With SpaceX International
On Monday, shares of the small-cap stock, which currently trades under Rs 50, opened at Rs 18.55 and surged nearly 19% to hit an intraday high of Rs 21.67 apiece on the BSE.
