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With 84% of AUM as home loans, Home First Finance Company has significant headroom for product diversification, along with co-lending, currently sub-5% of disbursements, to expand the addressable market, adds the brokerage.

Q2 Earnings Live Updates: TCS will be the key earnings event to watch, with the country's largest IT services company expected to post modest sequential growth amid a mixed demand environment.

TCS shares rose to Rs 2,138.30 on the NSE, gaining 2.7% in early trade on Thursday as investors awaited the IT major’s Q2 FY27 earnings announcement

Motilal Oswal believes Physicswallah's multiple independent growth legs provide comfort on 30% online compound annual growth rate for the next three-four years, with a clear path toward sustained Ebitda improvement over the same period.

TCS Q2 Results Live: Track the earnings announcement, dividend decision, management commentary, key financial metrics and TCS share price reaction here.

Q2 Results Today: TCS, GM Breweries and Lotus Chocolate are among seven firms reporting on October 8. Check the full list and TCS dividend details.

ITC In Focus: The block deal comes at a time when ITC's cigarette business is also in focus following another round of price increases across select brands.

Among sectors, Nifty Metals, Nifty Realty, Nifty Auto, Nifty FMCG and Nifty Private Bank were trading in the red, while gains were seen in Nifty IT and Nifty Media.

Petrol and diesel prices remained steady across major Indian cities as crude oil prices rose sharply in international markets on October 8.

AI disruption fears have eased for Indian IT, but global growth concerns, inflation and Middle East tensions continue to weigh on the outlook, says Dolat Capital.

Nityas Gems & Jewellery has an implied listing premium of 1.33%, while Vishal Nirmiti indicates a 0.91% premium ahead of today's debut

Goldman Sachs maintained its Buy' rating on One 97 Communications, the parent company of fintech giant Paytm, and the target price to Rs 2,070 apiece from Rs 1,500 earlier.

The RBI raised the repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.5%, but Jefferies believes the bigger signal was the change in policy stance from "Neutral" to "Calibrated Tightening".

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With a prospect pipeline of Rs 15 trillion for 9M FY27 and an order book of Rs 7.8 trillion as of Jun'26, the brokerage expects L&T's core EPC order inflows and revenue to grow at 10%/14% CAGR over FY26-29.

Shares of Skyways Air Services Ltd., Accelya Solutions India Ltd., and Caspian Corporate Services Ltd. will be on interest on Thursday.

In the early session on Thursday, Oct. 8, both the precious metals also slumped in the international market, with COMEX gold declining around 0.18% to trade at $4,133.2 per ounce

HSBC takes a less aggressive view on the road ahead, arguing that the new stance is more consistent with mild rate hikes rather than a deep tightening cycle.

Jay Thakkar has recommended three stocks to buy — HDFC Life Insurance Company, Petronet LNG and Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) — in the futures segment.

Shares of Samsung Electronics were initially trading 0.8% lower, only to suddenly swing to green and trade 0.23% higher. By10:23 a.m. KST, the stock was down 0.4% to 267,500 South Korean Won.