Dragged by FMCG and financial stocks, the Indian market ended Monday's session on a negative note, as Sensex slipped over 500 points and Nifty closed below 17400-mark.  

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Nifty consumer durables followed by the IT index were the top performers of the day. All other indices ended in the red. The banking index was down 180 points with Axis Bank being a top-performing bank. Nifty Midcap Index was down 0.25 per cent.  

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Among the Nifty50 pack Axis Bank was the top Gainer followed by Tech Mahindra and Maruti Suzuki, while Bajaj Finance, Bajaj Finserv & Tata Consumer Products were top losers.   

Rahul Sharma, Co-Founder, Equity99 says, “We expect liquidity issue in market for coming days majorly due to a number of upcoming IPOs. The current market is stock specific market and short-term traders should keep booking profit at each rising level.”   

It is also advised to remain cautious and follow strict stop loss. Investors have every opportunity to enter with each correction, Sharma also said, adding that the sector in focus on Tuesday are: Banks, IT, Metals & Automobiles.   

Stay tuned to Zeebiz.com to find out what could impact your trade today. We have collated a list of top 10 news points which could impact markets, companies, or economy:     

Global Markets:  

The wall street indices corrected up to 1.40 per cent on Monday. All major indices ended in the red. Dow Jones closed 0.89 per cent down, Nasdaq Composite 1.39 per cent lower, S&P 500 ended 0.91 per cent negative and Russell 2000 settled for 1.42 per cent lower in Monday's trade.  

Asian Markets:  

Asian markets were also trading largely in negative in the morning trade as Nikkei 225 was down 0.18%, Hang Seng Index was trading lower by 0.17%, Shanghai Composite was down 0.43%, while there was no trading seen at Asia Dow.  

SGX Nifty:  

SGX Nifty Futures was trading lower by 147.50 points to 17,321.50 on Tuesday morning around 7am IST, hinting at negative opening for the Indian markets.   

Oil fall as Omicron risks weigh  

Oil fell on Monday as new concerns about the Omicron coronavirus variant and doubts around the effectiveness of vaccines against it were weighing on prices.   

Brent fell 78 cents, or 1%, to $74.37 a barrel by 1227 GMT, and U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) was down 72 cents, or 1%, at $70.95 a barrel. Both benchmarks posted gains of about 8% last week, their first weekly gain in seven.  

"The major oil contracts registered decent weekly gains, but it is noticeable that current prices are still way below the pre-Omicron levels," said Tamas Varga, oil analyst at London brokerage PVM Oil Associates.  

Data Patterns raises Rs 176 cr from anchor investors ahead of IPO  

Data Patterns (India) Ltd, which supplies electronic systems to the defence and aerospace sector, on Monday said it has collected Rs 176 crore from anchor investors ahead of its IPO rollout on Tuesday.  

The company has allotted 30.16 lakh equity shares to anchor investors at Rs 585 apiece, aggregating the transaction size to Rs 176.46 crore, according to a circular uploaded on the BSE website.  

The anchor book has seen participation from domestic mutual funds including HDFC Mutual Fund (MF), ICICI Prudential MF, Axis MF, Kotak MF, Aditya Birla Sun Life MF, and Tata MF.  

With nickel, MCX launches 3rd base metal options on futures  

The largest commodity exchange MCX on Monday launched trading on nickel options, making it the third base metal derivatives on its platform.  

The exchange already offers base metal options on futures in copper and zinc and option contracts in gold, silver and crude.  

The exchange said nickel options contract will be based on 1,500 kg nickel futures contracts with tick size of 5 paisa and strike interval of Rs 20, making it the most expensive base metal being traded as the single lot will come for Rs 23.25 lakh, adding the nickel options on futures will be devolved into nickel futures underlying.  

Sebi asks investment advisers, analysts to disclose investor charter  

Markets regulator Sebi on Monday asked investment advisers and research analysts to disclose the investor charter as well as data pertaining to complaints received on their websites and mobile applications.  

The new guidelines will come into effect from January 1, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said in two separate circulars.  

In order to facilitate investor awareness about various activities which an investor deals with while availing the services provided by research analysts and investment advisers, Sebi has developed the investor charter for research analysts and investment advisers.  

November retail inflation climbs to 4.91% YoY  

India`s retail inflation accelerated in November, led by a rise in food prices, but remained within the medium-term target of the central bank, strengthening views that the bank could keep interest rates on hold at its next meeting in February.  

Consumer prices rose 4.91% in November from the same month last year, speeding up from October`s 4.48% but lower than the consensus Reuters poll forecast of 5.10%, Ministry of Statistics data showed on Monday.  

The Reserve Bank of India left interest rates on hold last week, saying growth was a priority as it warned of risks from inflation and the new Omicron variant on the economic recovery.  

MapmyIndia IPO subscribed whopping 154.71 times  

The initial public offer of CE Info Systems Ltd, the parent of digital mapping company MapmyIndia, garnered a strong investor response and was subscribed a whopping 154.71 times on the last day of subscription on Monday.  

Popularly known through its brand MapmyIndia, the company is backed by global wireless technologies company Qualcomm and Japanese digital mapping firm Zenrin. The IPO received bids for over 108.98 crore shares against over 70.44 lakh shares on offer, as per an update on the NSE.  

The non-institutional investors' category was subscribed 424.69 times, while the Qualified Institutional Buyers (QIBs) portion received 196.36 times subscription and Retail Individual Investors (RIIs) 15.20 times.  

FII & DII Data:  

Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) remained net sellers for Rs 2743.44 crore in the Indian markets while Domestic Institutional Investors (DIIs) were net buyers to the tune of Rs 1351.03 crore, provisional data showed on the NSE.  

Stocks under F&O ban on NSE    

Three stocks: Indiabulls Housing Finance, Escorts, Idea are placed under the F&O ban on Tuesday. Securities in the ban period under the F&O segment include companies in which the security has crossed 95 percent of the market-wide position limit.  

(With inputs from PTI, Reuters and other agencies)  

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