Employees ride an elevator next to an electronic ticker board that indicates the latest stock figures inside the atrium at the National Stock Exchange (NSE) in Mumbai, India. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)
The Nifty futures on the Singapore Stock Exchange, an early indicator of Nifty's performance in India, rose 0.3 percent to 8,316.
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Here are the stocks to watch out for in today's session:
Wockhardt
- German regulator has issued European Union Good Manufacturing Practice certificate to the company's Ankaleshwar facility in Gujarat.
- Earlier this week, it had received a warning letter from U.S. FDA for the same plant.
- HDFC: The mortgage lender will consider raising funds up to Rs 35,000 crore via non-convertible debentures (NCDs) on January 30.
- GE Power: The company gets contract worth Rs 198 crore from NTPC Alstom Power Services for steam turbine upgrade project.
- Credit Analysis and Research: Intimates of closure of its Maldives branch office.
- Jubilant Lifesciences: The pharmaceutical firm issued commercial papers worth Rs 50 crore at a coupon rate of 6.79 percent per annum.
- Piramal Enterprises: The company's subsidiary Piramal Finance to make application to National Housing Bank for incorporating a housing finance company as subsidiary.
- Sagar Cement: The company reported a 5.47 percent decline in cement production for December at 1,00,929 bags.
- Birla Corp: The company seeks board members' nod for renewal of issue of NCDs.
- Mastek: U.S. unit of Mastek acquired TAISTech for an undisclosed amount.
- Parag Milk Foods: Sales tax authorities conducted an inspection at the offices of the company and reclassified few transactions of goods as local sales.
- GM Breweries: December quarter net profit down 36 percent to Rs 9.9 crore.
- PVV Infra: PVV Satyanarayana, promoter of the company, acquired an additional 0.5 percent stake in the company. The total holding increased to 5.15 percent.
- Reliance Power: The company promotes Suresh Nagarajan, currently senior executive vice president, to the position of Chief Financial Officer.
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Media Reports
SpiceJet
- Budget airline is poised to order at least 92 Boeing Co. 737 jetliners.
- Deal may be closed within weeks.
- The 92 Max jets would be valued at about $10.1 billion at current list prices.
(Bloomberg)
Neyveli Lignite
- State-owned lignite mining and power generating company may buy Ind-Barath's 700MW Odisha plant
- Deal size estimated at Rs 5,000-5,600 crore
(Mint)
- Tata Motors: The automaker signed a three-year agreement with Castrol under which the lubricants maker would supply commercial vehicle oils to Tata Motors in over 50 markets. (PTI)
- Oil & Natural Gas Corp: Global offshore drilling contractors including Transocean Inc have offered deep-sea drilling rigs to Oil and Natural Gas for its KG-D5 gas field developments. (PTI)
- Grasim Industries: A producer of viscose staple fibre has sought a ‘fibre neutral' policy from the government by removing 12.3 percent excise duty. (PTI)
- Reliance Communications: Two promoter entities of Reliance Communications have pledged around 11 crore shares of the company, worth about Rs 374 crore. (PTI)
- Cheviot Co, Ludlow Jute & Specialities: Government imposed anti-dumping duty ranging on imports of jute and its products from Bangladesh and Nepal to protect domestic industry. (PTI)
- Monnet Ispat & Energy: Lenders to the company have restarted the process of selling a majority stake in the company. (Mint)
- I.T. Companies: A bill backing key changes in the H-1B programme that allows skilled workers from countries like India to fill high-tech jobs in the US has been re-introduced in the US Congress by two lawmakers. (Economic Times)
- SRS Ltd: State Bank of India, the lead banker of the diversified business group SRS, has put its multiplex business up for sale. (Economic Times)
- Reliance Industries: About 85 percent of customers using Reliance Jio during its free offer period will continue to use it even after the telco starts charging for data services from April 1, a survey by Bank of America Merrill Lynch has shown. (Economic Times)
- Glenmark, Torrent Pharmaceuticals: French drug maker Sanofi has sued Glenmark and Torrentin a U.S. court over their plans to launch a generic version of its multiple sclerosis drug, Aubagio. (Business Standard)
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