Tuesday, 26 December 2017

Nifty, Sensex Headed Higher – Tuesday closing report-The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions

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26 December  2017

I had mentioned in Friday’s closing report that Nifty, Sensex have regained bullish mode. The Indian stock markets were closed for trading on Monday on account of Christmas. The major indices were range-bound on Tuesday and closed with gains over Friday’s close. The trends of the major indices in the course of Tuesday’s trading are given in the table below: The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
 
Major Indices (The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions)
On the NSE, there were 882 advances, 632 declines and 49 unchanged. It was notable that the S & P BSE Sensex had an intra-day high in Tuesday’s trading, which was above 34,000. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions

Shares of Reliance Communications (RCOM) zoomed after Reliance Group's Chairman Anil Ambani on Tuesday announced his plan to reduce the company's debt by Rs25,000 crore to Rs6,000 crore -- closing almost 30% higher at Rs21.33. Around 3.15 p.m., RCOM's stocks augmented by 36.05% to trade at Rs22.19 per share on the BSE. At one point it had risen by over 41%. Addressing a press conference, Anil Ambani said the company has achieved full resolution of RCOM's debt restructuring. RCom had close to Rs45,000 crore debt on its books in October 2017, Ambani said. Ambani said that the company would close all the transactions by January-March 2018. In a press conference, Ambani said the debt would be recast by remonetisation with zero write-off to lenders and bankers. The company’s shares closed at Rs21.33, up 30.78% on the BSE.

Parliamentary proceedings including passage of key bills -- along with macro-economic data on the fiscal deficit are expected to be keenly watched by market participants and will have a bearing on the domestic equity indices this week, pointed out market analysts. The winter session of the Indian parliament will reopen on December 27. The domestic investors supported the markets last week after FPIs (foreign portfolio investors) net sold stocks. Besides parliamentary proceedings, macro-economic points like Index of Eight Core Industries' (ECI) figures, along with the country's fiscal deficit numbers up to November and its external debt data will be keenly watched by investors. The fiscal deficit figures are due late next week; it could give clues on whether government will resort to extra borrowings in the current financial year, observed market analysts.

Budget passenger carrier IndiGo said that it has become the first Indian airline to operate "1,000 plus flights in a day". According to the airline, its flight 6E 185 from Mumbai to Kochi operated on December 22, 2017 became the 1,000th flight.  "IndiGo also took the delivery of its 31st Airbus A-320 Neo aircraft on the same day to join its ever growing fleet making the first Indian carrier with a 150 aircraft fleet," the company said in a statement.  "The milestone underlines IndiGo's position as the country's largest and fastest-growing carrier with 150 Airbus and one ATR aircraft connecting 46 destinations." The airline’s shares closed at Rs1,200.90, up 1.75% on the BSE. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions

Software major Infosys Ltd announced that it had competed the buyback of 11.3 crore equity shares of Rs5 face value at Rs1,150 per share for Rs13,000 crore. "The post buyback public announcement is being made in compliance with Regulation 19 (7) of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) Regulations, 1998," said the IT major in a regulatory filing on the BSE. The company's maiden buyback of 11,30,43,478 equity shares was made under the tender offer route from November 30 and closed on December 14. Among the retail investors, who sold shares more than 1% of the total, were Rohan Murthy, the son of co-founder N.R Narayana Murthy, with 13,92,682 and Sudha Gopalakrishnan , wife of another co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan, at 15,00,000. She held the largest share among the promoters, with 2.14% shareholding. The company’s shares closed at Rs1,035.60, down 0.42% on the NSE.

The top gainers and top losers of the major indices are given in the table below:
 
Top Gainer (The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions)

The closing values of the major Asian indices are given in the table below: The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
Asian Indices (The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions)

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