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Oil Stocks Drag Nifty; HUL Top Sensex Gainer

Oil Stocks Drag Nifty; HUL Top Sensex Gainer
(Source: Bloomberg)
9 years ago
Inclusion of Mainland China shares into MSCI likely to weigh on the Nifty

Market is likely to remain rangebound over the next few days with news based triggers like GST and expiry for the June series approaching nearby, Anita Gandhi, Director of Arihant Capital told BloombergQuint over phone. “The market is likely to continue to trade in the range of 9,600-9,700,” she added.

With markets likely to consolidate in the days to come, stock specific activity is likely to be the norm going forward, Gandhi said.

CDSL issue subscribed 51.15 times as of 2:30 p.m.

  • QIB portion subscribed 72.69 times
  • HNI portion subscribed 106.03 times
  • Retail portion subscribed 17.8 times
  • Employee portion subscribed 1.29 times

Source: Axis Capital

Shares gained as much as 1.95 percent to Rs 58.10 on the National Seock Exchange.

Shares of Cadila Healthcare Ltd. recovered from the day's low after the company’s formulations manufacturing facility at Moraiya in Gujarat received an establishment inspection report from the U.S. FDA.

The plant had completed the audit from the U.S. drug regulator from February 6-15, 2017 with zero 483 observations.

Post the audit, the plant has received several product approvals, most notable among them being the final approval to market Mesalamine Delayed Release Tablets USP, 1.2g in the U.S., the company said in an exchange filing.

Shares were trading lower by 0.5 percent at Rs 520.90 on the National Stock Exchange.

Brokerage firm Axis Capital downgraded downstream refiners Hindustan Petroleum Ltd., Bharat Petroleum Ltd. and Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., also lowering their 12-month price targets.

  • Hindustan Petroleum was downgraded to ‘Neutral’ with its price target lowered to Rs 530
  • Bharat Petroleum was downgraded to ‘Hold’ with its price target cut to Rs 670
  • Indian Oil Corporation was downgraded to ‘Hold’ with a price target of Rs 440.

Source: Bloomberg

Shares of the Avantha group company pared losses and gained as much as 2.6 percent after it accepted a binding offer for selling its U.S. power business.

The company will sell its U.S. power unit to WEG Electric Corp. at an enterprise value of $37 million.

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Stocks in mainland China were little changed while those in Hong Kong declined after MSCI Inc. decided to add mainland shares to its benchmark indices.

“We view this announcement as an important milestone in the integration of China’s equity markets with the rest of the world,” Jonathan Garner, chief Asia and emerging-market strategist at Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong, wrote in a report. “But there is unlikely to be a significantly positive impact on A share index performance near term,” he added. (Source: Bloomberg)

Brokerage firms CLSA and Goldman Sachs see outflows from Emerging Markets like India on account of this move. While CLSA expects India's weightage in the MSCI EM Index to come down to 8.85 percent from 8.92 percent, Goldman Sachs sees minimal outflows from EMs like India.

The inclusion will take place in two steps: first in May 2018 and the second in August 2018.

Good Morning!

The Singapore traded SGX Nifty, an early indicator of Nifty’s performance in India, fell 0.4 percent to 9,636.

The swoon in oil dragged down driller shares amid concern that unceasing production from U.S. shale fields is overwhelming OPEC efforts to ease a global supply glut.

The weakness in crude and other commodities dents arguments from American central bankers that weak inflation rates will be transitory, even as the economy shows few signs of distress and haven assets have not been in demand.

Focus will be on regional Fed Presidents Eric Rosengren, Robert Kaplan, Jerome Powell, James Bullard and Loretta Mester who are scheduled to speak while BoJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda is scheduled to speak in Tokyo.

West Texas oil climbed 0.7 percent to $43.53, after tumbling 2.2 percent on Tuesday and touching the lowest since August.

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