An Electronic Ticker Board Indicates the Closing Figures of the BSE Sensex at the Bombay Stock Exchange (Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg)
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Dec 29, 2017
The Singapore-traded SGX Nifty, an early indicator of NSE Nifty 50 Index's performance in India, was little changed at 10,504.
GTPL Hathway: The broadband and television service provider rose as much as 5.2 percent to Rs 165.70 after it hiked stake in two subsidiaries.
Astron Paper: Shares of Astron Paper & Board Mill made a strong debut on stock exchanges. The stock rose as much as 139 percent to Rs 119.70 against its issue price of Rs 50. The Rs 70 crore Astron Paper's IPO saw huge demand for its shares as it was subscribed 243 times.
Tehno Electric And Engineering: The heavy electrical equipment maker rose as much as 4.3 percent to Rs 422.45 after it received EPC order worth Rs 206 crore from Afghanistan.
Dredging Corp: Shares of Dredging Corporation rose as much as 12 percent to Rs 887 after Kedia Securities run by well-known investor Vijay Kedia bought 1.75 lakh shares (0.6 percent equity) at Rs 790.92 per share.
Amulya Leasing & Finance was locked in upper circuit of 5 percent at Rs 624 after its promoter Sameer Gupta sold his entire 35.19 percent stake in the company through an open market transaction.
The Indian government breached its fiscal deficit target for the current year in the April-November period, showed data released by the Controller General of Accounts on Friday.
Fiscal deficit, or the gap between the government's earnings and spending, reached Rs 6.12 lakh crore. That’s 112 percent of budgeted gap for 2017-18. In the same period last year, the government had exhausted 85.8 percent of the fiscal deficit target.
Shares of Dredging Corporation rose as much as 12 percent to Rs 887 after Kedia Securities run by well-known investor Vijay Kedia bought 1.75 lakh shares (0.6 percent equity) at Rs 790.92 per share.
Shares of the Mumbai-based chemical maker rose as much as 8.5 percent to Rs 1,159.90 after the company signed 20-year exclusive contract worth Rs 10,000 crore with SABIC Innovative Plastics U.S. for supply of high value speciality chemical intermediate, Aarti Industries said in a press release.
The rupee gained 10 paise against the US dollar to trade at 63.98 in early session on selling of the US currency by exporters and banks.
The dollar was weak against major currencies in global markets which supported the local currency, a currency dealer said.
Domestic stock markets opening higher too bolstered the rupee sentiment.
The rupee opened higher by 3 paise at 64.05 a dollar against previous close of 64.08 a dollar. It moved in range of 64.06 a dollar to 63.95 a dollar in early trade before quoting at 63.98 at 0945 hrs.
Shares of Astron Paper & Board Mill made a strong debut on stock exchanges. The stock rose as much as 139 percent to Rs 119.70 against its issue price of Rs 50.
The Rs 70 crore Astron Paper's IPO saw huge demand for its shares as it was subscribed 243 times.
Sovereign bonds are heading for their worst year since 2009 as the government raised its borrowing target for the fiscal year, with banking liquidity set to tighten and accomodative monetary policy potentially nearing an end.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year bond rose 18 basis points to 7.4 percent yesterday. It has climbed 88 basis points this year, snapping three years of declines. Later in the day, India will detail the fiscal deficit data for April-Nov. period.
The rupee on the other hand is headed for its first gain in seven years. Implied opening from forwards suggests onshore dollar-rupee will start trading around 64.07.
Reliance Communication to sell the wireless business to Reliance Jio. Proceeds to be used entirely for debt reduction.
Lupin receives U.S. FDA approval for generic Dovonex scalp solution. The stock will also be focus as Nostrum gets FDA nod for Fortamet, which is one of the biggest drugs of the company
Aurobindo Pharma gets USFDA nod for Fondaparinux Sodium injection
Alkem Labs gets USFDA nod for Triamcinolone Acetonide topical cream
Bank of Baroda to buy UniCredit’s 51 percent stake in Baroda Pioneer AMC, increasing its shareholding to 100 percent
Jindal Worldwide sold its entire investment in Jindal Synthetics
GTPL Hathway to acquire remaining 49 percent stake in GTPL Surat Telelink and additional 23.5 percent stake in GTPL Ahmedabad cable network
Quess Corp to acquire additional 10 percent stake in Golden Star Facilities and services for Rs 5 crore
Sheela Foam says Rangoli resorts has acquired entire 13.43 percent stake in Polyflex marketing as per NCLT order
Srikalahasthi Pipes allotted 69.34 lakh shares at Rs 360.5 each in QIP.
Mahindra Lifespaces got NCLT nod for merger of 3 units with Mahindra World City
Bombay Burmah says Bombay Dyeing has acquired entire 10.8 percent stake of Archway Investment as per NCLT order
Centrum Capital to consider fundraising through securities on Jan. 3
SEBI put a 10 percent cross-shareholding cap in mutual funds and credit rating agencies.
Brookfield-Kotak bids for JP Power’s assets; deal may close at equity value of Rs 3,500-4,000 crore (Economic Times)