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Sensex, Nifty Clock Longest Rally In Nearly Five Months

 Sensex, Nifty Clock Longest Rally In Nearly Five Months
A broker reacts while looking at financial data on computer screens the trading floor during a charity day at BGC Brokers L.P., a unit of BGC Partners Inc., in London, U.K. (Photographer: Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg)
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Indian equity benchmarks declined, halting their best performance this year, as index heavyweight Infosys tumbled after its FY19 growth outlook disappointed the street.

India’s wholesale price inflation eased to an eight-month low in March on the back of softer rise food prices

Inflation measured by the Wholesale Price Index stood at 2.47 percent last month, compared with 2.48 percent in February, according to a statement by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. That's marginally higher than the 2.43 percent median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg.

RCom Hopes To Cut Debt By Rs 25,000 Crore From Asset Sale

Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan has resigned as CEO of AngloGold Ashanti after 18 years at the company, with the last five as its CEO. He will remain in his current role until August 30.

Venkatakrishnan will joint billionaire Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Resources as its CEO.

Source: Bloomberg

Meanwhile, a three-judge bench of the top court refused Jaiprakash Associates’s plea seeking order to Resolution Professional to consider its bid for Jaypee Infratech.

  • Somany Ceramics cut to Reduce at ICICI Securities; price target Rs 618
  • Kajaria Ceramics cut to Reduce at ICICI Securities

Shares of the drugmaker rose 4.2 percent to Rs 579, the highest level since March 12. Trading volume was more than triple the 20-day average for this time of day.

The stock is at an 11 percent discount to the analysts’ consensus target price. It traded at an average 2.7 percent discount over the past year, Bloomberg data showed.

IHH Said to Propose Up to $1.3 Billion Fortis Bid to Top TPG

Shares of the lender rose as much as 6.5 percent after its fourth quarter net income beat analyst forecast. The company announced the issue of one bonus share for each held. The stock was the second-best performer on the S&P BSE 500 Index. Trading volume was 1.4 times its 3-month full-day average.

Gruh Finance To BQ

  • Experienced higher payment ratio in Q4
  • Will try to maintain cost-to-income ratio around 15 percent
  • Do not see strong demand enthusiasm
  • Challenges on recoveries to continue
  • Target 20-25 percent loan growth in FY18, more likely to see ~18 percent growth

Shares of the country's second-largest software services company declined as much as 6.2 percent, most intraday since Aug. 18, after the IT firm said it expects its operating margin in 22 to 24 percent range this year, lower than previous year’s 23 to 25 percent view.

The stock snaps a four-day advance and was the worst performer on both the Sensex and the Nifty indices. Its volume was volume was 80 percent of its three-month full-day average.

Shares of the country’s second-largest software services provider dropped as much as 6.2 percent in pre-market trading.

Nearly 85 lakh shares changed hands in 14 block deals on the NSE. The buyers and sellers were not known immediately.

  • Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley among companies reporting results.
  • John Williams, soon to be president of the New York Fed, speaks on economic outlook in Madrid on Tuesday.
  • China GDP and Japanese inflation are the featured data points in Asia.
  • Trump welcomes Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday. North Korea and trade will probably be discussed.
  • Mining investors will get to take the pulse of the global industry this week, with Vale, Rio Tinto and BHP offering quarterly production reports.
  • 12pm: India March wholesale prices inflation YoY, estimate 2.50 percent, prior 2.48 percent
  • 3:30pm: IMD briefing on long range forecast for southwest monsoon rain 2018.

Motilal Oswal on Bharat Electronics

  • Maintain Buy; Cut target price to Rs 196 from Rs 210
  • Akash and LR SAM orders deferred to the first half of the next financial year
  • Estimates cut to factor order deferral and higher tax rates
  • Management targets to double sales to Rs 20,000 crore by March 2023
  • EBITDA margins to sustain at 18 percent; Exports to reach 10 percent of sales
  • Venturing into ammunition production; Rs 600 crore capex likely by March 2019

Credit Suisse on Nestle

  • Maintain Outperform; Raise target price to Rs 9,600 from Rs 9,000
  • Highest volume growth in FMCG in calendar year 2017
  • Maggi volumes still below calendar year 2014 levels
  • Maggi to drive rapid growth for another few years
  • Strong free cash flow conversion; FCF is 146 percent of net profit

Earnings To Watch
  • Jay Bharat Maruti
  • LKP Finance
  • Lloyd Metals

Put Call Ratio
  • Nifty PCR at 1.63 versus 1.53
  • Nifty Bank PCR at 1.45 versus 1.61

Kirloskar Ferrous
  • HDFC mutual fund bought 17 lakh shares (1.2%) at Rs 89.05 each.
  • Quest Investment Advisors sold 14.51 lakh shares (1.1%) at Rs 89.07 each.

SS Infrastructure Development Consultants

  • HSBC mutual fund – Small Cap Equity Fund bought 99,000 shares at Rs 42 each.
  • Elara India Opportunities Fund sold 99,000 shares at Rs 42.01 each.

Shriram City Union Finance

  • Fidelity Fund – Pacific Fund sold 4.80 lakh shares (0.7%) at Rs 2200 each.

For a complete list of stocks to watch, click here

Commodities

  • West Texas Intermediate crude lost 0.9 percent to $66.78 a barrel.
  • Gold rose 0.1 percent to $1,347.58 an ounce.

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