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PremiumIndian indices closed flat on Monday. The Sensex remained above the 60,000 mark, while Nifty closed below 17,900. All eyes will be on the core sector data due on Thursday, the capex growth data for the September quarter on Friday as well as the India manufacturing PMI which is also due on Friday US, UK will also release their official GDP figures later this week.
"After making a high of 17,943, Nifty closed flat at 17,858 giving up the entire intraday gains. Such movements around the all time high is not a good sign for traders in long positions. If nifty is not able to close above 17,950 levels in the next few trading sessions , it may correct to its support range of 17,680-17,720. Traders in long positions need to keep strict stop loss and may consider booking profits. New long positions can be initiated once Nifty closes above 17,950 with high volumes for 18,040 and 18,080 as targets."
The Sensex closed at 60,077.88, up 29.41 points, or 0.05%, while Nifty was at 17,855.10, up 1.90 points, or 0.01%. On the 30 share Sensex, HCL Tech, Tech Mahindra, Bajaj Finserv, and 13 other stocks closed in red, while Maruti, M&M, Bajaj Auto, and 11 other stocks closed in green.
“Indian markets started on a positive note despite mixed Asian market cues as fears of further waves of coronavirus outbreaks clouded the economic outlook for the region, tempering gains. During the afternoon session Indian markets are maintained their up move as across-the-board buying by funds as well as retail investors was seen. Traders took support as India, US looking forward to reconvening trade policy forum this year. Sentiments also got boost as Finance Minister stated that the Indian economy is on a sustained path of revival and cited rise in GST collections and direct taxes to support her assertion. Also, the sentiment further got boosted as further easing in lockdown was announced in Maharashtra with opening of multiplexes and cinema halls."
"Bharti Airtel's record date will be tomorrow i.e. 28 September, Market lot for the Future and option contacts are also adjusted. Tomorrow will be going the record date for Bharti Airtel ₹21,000 crores right issue, the shareholder who was holding Bharti airtel will get right to apply for Bharti airtel right issue in the ratio of 1:14 shares i.e for every 14 shares of Bharti airtel shareholder will get the 1 right entitlement of Bharti airtel right share at a price of ₹535, which is discount to CMP of 26%. Along with this Bharti Airtel's future and option contract lot also adjust for this right issue, the adjusted market lot would be 1,886 shares for both Future contracts as well as option contracts."
With easing of covid restrictions in most parts of the country and work commutes getting back on track, audio streaming services that had seen a 5-15% drop during the peak of the second wave, are now seeing consumption bounceback, streaming platform executives said. (Read more)
Private lender IndusInd Bank on Monday said it has partnered full-service airline Vistara to launch a co-branded credit card. Called Club Vistara IndusInd Bank Explorer credit card, it aims to fulfil the requirements of customers who prefer being on the go, the bank said in a statement. (Read more)
Markets remained open and business activities were largely unaffected in the national capital on Monday, though massive traffic snarls were witnessed in border areas due to road blockades by protesters and security checks by police during the Bharat Bandh called by farmers against the Centre's three agri laws. The auto and taxi unions as well as several traders' bodies extended only "in-principle support" to the Bharat Bandh and decided not to join the strike, saying their livelihood has already been hit hard due to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown. (PTI)
“There is a possibility that the Indian currency (CMP: 73.65) shall weaken towards 73.90 levels; break of which could push the currency towards 74.10 and lower levels. Reason behind the same could be attributed to a jump in crude oil prices to the highest level in almost three years amid dollar weakness and upbeat risk appetite. Markets believe that this increase in oil prices would further intensify fears around the outlook for inflation. The impact on inflation and the overall Indian economy is more pronounced with the country importing almost 80% of its crude oil requirements. According to estimates, every $10 increase in oil prices pushes India’s inflation up by 50 basis points. On the flip side, the bearish trend in US Dollar Index along with an unrelenting equity rally in India could cap sharp losses in Rupee. Focus this week would be on news related to China Evergrande and the speech of several U.S. Federal Reserve officials including Chair Jerome Powell. Powell will be speaking after last week’s meeting at which the central bank indicated it would likely announce at the November meeting reducing the pace of bond purchases."
RIL's stock was trading at ₹2,521.95 each, up 1.57% at 1:44 pm. The company became the first in India to cross ₹17 trillion in market capitalisation.
Nucleus Software's stock was trading at ₹603.50 apiece, down 0.90% at 1:42 pm. The company says its offline retail payment product, PaySe has passed RBI’s regulatory sandbox.
The carmaker has announced the discontinuation of the sale of Yaris car models in India. The company will start production of new car models in FY22, it said.
Even as the Karnataka government prepares new legislation to ban online games that involve betting and wagering, the Kerala High Court quashed a move against banning online rummy in the state. A single judge bench of the Kerala High Court quashed an amendment to a notification issued by the Kerala Government under Section 14A of the Kerala Gaming Act, 1960, which sought to ban online rummy in the country. (Read more)
“Enquiries for investing in Freshworks were seen even before the listing by Indian investors but unfortunately they are not allowed to directly investing in IPOs of US markets. Since it got listed, over the last 3 days, it’s been the No. #1 stock on Vested Finance’s platform and 0.4% of Vested Finance users today hold FRSH in comparison 1.2% have invested in Coinbase and 6.5% have invested in Microsoft. More than ₹2 crore has been invested in Freshworks since it got listed on our platform. We witnessed a 50% spike in daily new account opening on our platform over the last few days due to the Freshworks excitement."
ICICI Bank on Monday announced that it has partnered with Amazon India to offer overdraft (OD) facility upto ₹25 lakh to individual sellers and small businesses registered on the e-commerce company’s online marketplace. (Read more)
Birla Corporation Limited (BCL) is the flagship company of the M.P. Birla Group, involved in a core business activity of cement manufacturing. Besides cement, the company has also established a significant presence in the Jute Goods industry. Its cement division has 10 plants at seven locations – Satna and Maihar (Madhya Pradesh), Raebareli and Kundanganj (Uttar Pradesh), Chanderia (Rajasthan), Butibori (Maharashtra), and Durgapur (West Bengal). Currently, the company’s total cement manufacturing capacity stands at 15.6 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) and it is one of the dominant players in the Central India region.
BCL is on track to expand its capacity by 25% which will reduce concerns over its volume growth moving ahead. We expect the company to register Revenue/EBITDA/APAT growth of 13%/14/%/18% CAGR over FY21-FY23E, driven by volume CAGR of 11% and consistent realization improvement of 2% CAGR over the same period. The stock is currently trading at 7.5x and 6.1x FY22E and FY23E EV/EBITDA and EV/Tonne of $76 and $73 respectively.
Kaya Limited that operates a chain of skin and hair care clinics in India and the Middle East has appointed Rajiv Suri as its global chief executive officer. Suri was previously managing director and chief executive officer at departmental store chain Shoppers Stop. He stepped down from Shoppers Stop in August 2020. (Read more)
“Ashok Leyland Ltd (ALL) is one of the leading player in India CV industry with a 32% market share in the MHCV segment. The company also has a strong presence in the fast growing LCV segment. Demand for MHCV was adversely impacted post peaking out due to multiple factors including changes in axel norms, increase in prices due to implementation of BS 6 norms followed by sharp drop in demand due the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. While demand for the LCV segment has been growing smartly post the pandemic, demand for the MHCV segment has also started to recover over the past few months before the 2nd lockdown. We believe that the company is ideally placed to capture the growth revival in the CV segment and will be the biggest beneficiary of the Government’s voluntary scrappage policy and hence rate the stock a BUY."
Oil rallied at the start of the week’s trading on signs that the crude market is tightening amid a global energy crunch. West Texas Intermediate topped $75 a barrel after a run of five weekly gains, while Brent hit the highest level since October 2018. Inventories have been drawing, with U.S. stockpiles near a three-year low. At the same time, a rally in natural gas looks set to drive demand for oil as users switch fuels. Oil has risen more than 80% over the past year as worldwide demand recovers from the disruption caused by the pandemic. On the supply side, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies including Russia have been easing output curbs only slowly, permitting markets to tighten. In addition, extreme weather in the U.S. has crimped local production. (Bloomberg)
Encrypted instant messaging platform Signal said early Monday it was down for some users due to a hosting outage that was affecting parts of its services. Reports by affected users peaked at 1,308 late Sunday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Downdetector said most reported problems experienced by users were with sending messages, server connection and with the app itself in the United States. Currently, the number of user reports stand at 337, according to the outage tracking website.
“Shares of PVR, Inox Leisure have been rising since early morning deals. PVR share price price today opened with an upside gap of ₹151.05 apiece — hitting lifetime high of ₹1,661.95 per shares mark. Likewise, Inox share price opened ₹29 upside logging around 8.50% rise in early trade deals. According to stock market experts, this sharp rise in PVR and Inox shares is due to the Maharashtra Government's announcement to open cinema theaters in the state from 22nd October 2021. They said that market is bullish on PVR and Inox stock because of this news and one can buy this counter for long-term time horizon as it will take two to three quarters for the Indian theaters to start operations at 100% strength." (Read more)
"S&P BSE Realty up by another 2.11% at 4085, in last one week up by 26.8% from 3221 to 4085. We have a Buy rating on Sobha Limited and a Neutral rating on Godrej Properties Ltd. We have seen a one-sided rally in realty stock last week, as of now we expect some consolidation in real-estate stocks. Some of the stocks like Godrej Properties are up by 32% in the last 4 trading sessions, so we expect some correction in the upcoming week. There is a fundamental shift in the real-estate sector, like consolidation towards top-10 players, higher affordability due to lower housing interest rates, low inventory ratio, and new job creation in the IT industry, etc. The real-estate sector was consolidated for the last decades and now we have seen a breakout in that along with favorable fundamentals. We believe the real-estate story is long term story but there may be some consolidation for the time being. We have a neutral rating on Godrej Properties Ltd and a buy rating on Sobha Ltd."
Patel Engineering Ltd's stock was trading at ₹18.25 apiece, up 10.61% at 11:27 am. The company has secured a new order of ₹1,251 crore as part of the TEESTA-VI HE PROJECT.
More than half (62%) of small and medium businesses (SMBs) in India that suffered cyber incidents in the past 12 months said that cyber-attacks cost their business more than ₹3.5 crore, according to a new study by Cisco titled ‘Cybersecurity for SMBs: Asia Pacific Businesses Prepare for Digital Defense’. Of these, 13% said that the cost was over ₹7 crore. According to the study, three in four (74%) SMBs in India suffered a cyber incident in the past year, resulting in 85% losing customer information to malicious actors, in addition to a tangible impact on business. (Read more)
Google goes to court this week intent on reversing a record-breaking $5 billion European Union fine and antitrust order that struck at the heart of the US tech giant’s ability to make money. At a five-day hearing at the EU’s General Court in Luxembourg, the company will tell judges that the European Commission was wrong to demand changes to allegedly anti-competitive contracts with makers of phones running its Android operating system—the engine room for the vast majority of mobile devices in the region. (Bloomberg)
Cryptocurrency exchanges and providers of crypto services are scrambling to sever business ties with mainland Chinese clients, after Beijing last Friday issued a blanket ban on all crypto trading and mining. In a culmination of years of efforts to rein in the sector, 10 powerful Chinese government bodies including the central bank, said overseas exchanges were barred from providing services to mainland investors via the internet - a previously grey area - and vowed to jointly root out "illegal" cryptocurrency activities. (Reuters)
India saw a single-day rise of 26,041 new coronavirus infections, taking the country's total tally of cases to 33,678,786 according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. The death toll has climbed to 44,71,94 with 276 daily fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am. (Read more)
"The Nifty is sitting at a resistance zone of 17,900-17,950. If we can close above this patch, the next level should be 18,050. The updated support for the week is at 17,700. Since the risk is to reward is skewed in favor of risk, I would recommend a ‘buy on dips’ approach where the reward becomes a lot more favorable."
The country's biggest sugar producing state, Uttar Pradesh, has raised the price mills must pay for the new crop by 7.9%, the top official said, announcing the first hike in the cane price in four years ahead of state assembly elections next year. The state government has decided to raise the price that mills need to pay cane growers in the 2021-22 season beginning October to 340 rupees per 100 kgs ($4.61 per 220 lb), Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath said, addressing a group of farmers. (Reuters)
India's Nayara Energy hopes to operate its 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery in western India at close to 100% capacity in 2021 as fuel demand is picking up, Chief Executive Alois Virag said at the Platts APPEC 2021 conference on Monday. Nayara, part owned by Russian oil major Rosneft, cut rates at its Vadinar refinery in Gujarat state last year. India's fuel demand is likely to rise by 9%-11% as the economy in India is "steered towards higher growth" after the easing of the second wave of covid-19, he said. (Reuters)
Indian farmers opposed to reforms they say threaten their livelihoods aim to renew their push against the changes with nationwide protests on Monday, a year after laws on the liberalisation of the sector were introduced. For 10 months, tens of thousands of farmers have camped out on major highways around the capital, New Delhi, to oppose the laws in the longest-running growers' protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government. (Reuters)
India needs to add 2 million barrels per day (bpd) of refining capacity by 2030 to help its economic expansion, even as it takes steps to move to cleaner fuels, said the chairman of Indian Oil Corp (IOC), the country's top refiner. India, the world's third-biggest oil importer and consumer, currently has 5 million barrels per day of refining capacity. IOC controls about a third of that. "We are an emerging economy and very aspirational economy and the development is linked to the energy consumption ... so obviously we can not be wishing away fossil fuels so early. They have a role to play," IOC's S.M. Vaidya said at the Platts APPEC 2021 conference on Monday. (Reuters)
India and Taiwan are in talks on an agreement that could bring chip manufacturing to South Asia along with tariff reductions on components for producing semiconductors by the end of the year, people familiar with the matter said, a move that may spark fresh tensions with China. Officials in New Delhi and Taipei have met in recent weeks to discuss a deal that would bring a chip plant worth an estimated $7.5 billion to India to supply everything from 5G devices to electric cars, the people said. India is currently studying possible locations with adequate land, water and manpower, while saying it would provide financial support of 50% of capital expenditure from 2023 as well as tax breaks and other incentives, the people said. (Bloomberg)
