A person wearing a protective mask walks near the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building in Mumbai, India.
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Jun 02, 2021
ITC, Gujarat Gas may react as the companies reported quarterly results after the market closed Tuesday. Motherson Sumi, PVR, Muthoot Finance are scheduled to report earnings Wednesday. Foreign investors bought net Rs 5,160 crore of stocks on May 31, according to NSDL website. Monetary Policy Committee starts meeting June 2; the decision to be announced June 4
S&P BSE Sensex index closed 0.16% lower, with 13 stocks advancing and 17 stocks declining.
The rupee declined for a third day as higher oil prices fuelled worries about inflation and government finances, according to Bloomberg. A stronger dollar also weighed on emerging Asian currencies.
Muthoot Finance Ltd. shares surged nearly 10% even as the company's March-quarter performance fell short of expectations.
Net profit rose 2% quarter-on-quarter to Rs 996 crore, according to its exchange filing. That compares with the Rs 1,120-crore consensus estimate of analysts tracked by Bloomberg.
The non-bank financier's total income rose 2% sequentially to Rs 2,820 crore.
Muthoot Finance's board approved fund raising to the tune of Rs 5,000 crore by way of public issue of redeemable non-convertible debentures in one or more tranches.
India’s economy expansion was faster than expected last quarter, official data showed yesterday. While the period preceded a resurgence of viral infections, the economic effects of the latest wave are unlikely to be large, India’s Chief Economic Adviser Krishnamurthy Subramanian said. New virus cases have halved from a May peak to fewer than 200,000 a day.
Indian sovereign bonds may come under pressure amid higher oil prices and U.S. Treasury yields. Traders await a 360-billion-rupee ($4.9b) auction of Treasury bills, while the RBI’s monetary policy committee begins its meeting Wednesday.
RBI policy decision is due on Friday, where it’s likely to keep interest rates on hold
USD/INR rose 0.4% to 72.8988 on Tuesday
Implied opening from forwards suggest spot may start trading around 72.86