LIVE: Sensex, Nifty up 0.2%; Tata Steel gains
Indian markets are expected to follow Asian markets to open in green on Monday October 10, 2016.
At 838 hours, Singapore's SGX Nifty was trading at 8,744 points, up 0.34%
BSE Sensex ended last year with a gain of 195 points, up 0.70% and NSE Nifty gained 1% to close at 8697 points.
Indian markets are expected to follow Asian markets to open in green on Monday October 10, 2016.
At 838 hours, Singapore's SGX Nifty was trading at 8,744 points, up 0.34%
BSE Sensex ended last year with a gain of 195 points, up 0.70% and NSE Nifty gained 1% to close at 8697 points.
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Markets have fallen from their morning trade's high.
BSE Sensex is currently up only 0.2%, at 28,116 points and NSE Nifty is trading at 8,718.45 points.
JSW Steel is trading higher, 0.63%, at Rs 1,783.20 per share as media reports claim that the company has won 5 iron ore mines in Karnataka auction. Also, the company reported crude steel production numbers and said that it achieved "highest ever" quarterly steel production of 3.98 million tonne in second quarter ended September 30, 2016.
BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty ended their past week's decline and opened up by 0.4%, each.
At 930 hours, Sensex was trading at 112.67 points up, or 0.40% while Nifty was up by 0.37% or 31.85 points with 41 advances and only 9 declines.
Major gainers include Tata Steel (2.3%), Hindalco (1.90%), Asian Paints (1.55%).
Major losers of Nifty were: BPCL: -1.02%, HCL Tech (0.50%), Bharti Airtel (0.47%).
NSE Nifty is trading up 37.75 points, 0.43% in pre-opening trade on Monday. 19 stocks are advancing with 31 in decline. .
Top stocks are: Tata Steel: Tata Motors, ZEEL, Tata Power.
Top losers include: Asian Paints, Eicher Motors, HDFC, Infosys.
Rupee opens strong.
Indian Rupee (INR) followed its Asian peers and opened strong against the US Dollar (USD) on Monday, October 10, 2016.
At 916 hours, INR was trading at 66.60 to a dollar, up 0.1%.
Pre-open:
BSE Sensex has gained 0.30%, or 84 points in pre-open trade at 9 am.
Some of the gainers are: Tata Power, up 1.91%, Sterlite Industries: 1.43%, Bharti Airtel: 1.55%, Infosys: 0.80%, Reliance Communications: 1.49%.
NSE Nifty is likely to follow its Asian peers and open in green.
Chinese shares opened in green on Monday October 10, 2016 and Shanghai index was trading up by 0.52%.
Singapore's SGX Nifty was trading up by 0.34% at 838 hours.
Indian market, BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty are likely to open up 0.4% if one goes by NSE Index Futures.
Index of Industrial Production (IIP) will be released after market hours (5.30 pm) on Monday and is likely to remain on back of investors' mind through the day.
India's IIP growth has been, at best, sluggish, for the past few months.
source: tradingeconomics.com
Last month, India reported -2.4% IIP but is likely to have improved in the following month.
Stocks to watch:
Tata Steel: HSBC has raised the stock to 'hold' why UBS has brought it down to 'neutral'. Sunday Times report that the company may merge its European business with Thyssenkrupp.
JSW Steel: The company is likely to win five iron ore mines in Karnataka auction. HSBC has raised the stock to 'buy' while UBS cuts it to 'sell'.
Dr Reddy's: The company has introduced its products in the Colombian market.
GVK Power: CARE Ratings has downgraded the company citing delay in its debt servicing obligations.