Friday, 12 January 2018

Nifty, Sensex Trending Higher – Weekly closing report-The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions

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12 January  2018

I had mentioned in last Friday’s closing report that Nifty, Sensex continued to be on an uptrend. The major indices of the Indian stock markets were range-bound over the week and closed with weekly gains of a little over 1% on Friday over last Friday’s close. The trends of the major indices in the course of the week are given in the table below: The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
 
Weekly Indices (The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions)

Key Indian equity indices on Monday closed on a higher note prompted by strong global cues, along with buying in capital goods, healthcare and banking stocks. The wider Nifty50 of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) closed above the 10,600-level for the first time. The Nifty50 touched a fresh intra-day high level of 10,631.20 points. The barometer 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the BSE too scaled a new intra-day high of 34,385.67 points. On the NSE, there were 1,048 advances, 700 declines and 273 unchanged.

The State Bank of India (SBI) on Monday said it will raise over Rs12,600 crore ($2 billion) by issuing bonds in dollar or other convertible currencies. "The executive committee of the Central Board... has approved long term fund raising in single/multiple tranches up to $2 billion," the state-run bank informed in a regulatory filing to the BSE. The BSE filing added that raising of funds would be done through a public offer and/or private placement of senior unsecured notes in US dollar or any other convertible currency during FY 2017-18 and FY 2018-19. 

On Tuesday, the major indices of the Indian stock markets closed with minor gains over Monday’s close.  On the NSE, there were 588 advances, 879 declines and 19 unchanged. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions

The Coal India board on Tuesday approved a non-coking coal price hike for both power and non-power consumers. The price increase is expected to push the miner's revenue up by Rs1,956 crore for the remaining period of the current fiscal. The price revision is effective from Tuesday and the projected incremental annual revenue would be Rs6,421 crore. 

State-run Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) has announced its plans to set off its accumulated losses with funds from its share premium account. In a release late on Monday, IOB said it intends using Rs7,650 crore in its share premium account to write off its accumulated losses worth Rs6,978.94 crore. The decision, approved by the bank board last week, will now be put to vote at an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) on January 30. 

The major indices of the Indian stock markets were range-bound on Wednesday and closed with negligible losses over Tuesday’s close. On the NSE, there were 589 advances, 922 declines and 37 unchanged.

Broadly negative Asian markets, coupled with selling pressure in consumer durables, auto and capital goods stocks, pulled the key Indian equity indices lower on Wednesday. The barometer 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the BSE, which opened at a record high level of 34,538.78 points, touched a fresh high of 34,565.63 points on an intra-day basis. Stocks of Oil and Natural Gas Corp rose after a surge in international crude oil prices.

Debt-ridden Electrosteel Steels said four companies- Tata Steel, Vedanta, Renaissance Steel India and Edelweiss Alternative Asset Advisors Pte -have submitted bids to its Resolution Professional, under the corporate insolvency resolution process in terms of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC).
The major indices of the Indian stock markets were range-bound on Thursday and closed with small gains over Wednesday’s close. On the NSE, there were 848 advances, 728 declines and 63 unchanged.

Optimism ahead of the release of key corporate earnings drove the Indian equity indices higher during the mid-afternoon trade session on Thursday. According to market observers, the IT (information technology) index gained the most among the sectoral indices, followed by healthcare and Teck indices.

The government is considering merger of Miniratna Indian public sector unit Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) with another listed PSU company Cochin Shipyard, TV channel BTVI reported citing sources. "The Shipping Ministry may shelve its earlier plans for strategic disinvestment of Dredging Corporation of India and is instead considering the possibility of merging the two PSU companies," BTVI reported on Thursday. The government has already begun the process of selling its entire stake in DCI. DCI is the only PSU company in dredging business and could provide cost-effective dredging solutions at competitive price for government projects to make inland waterways navigable, and build and modernise ports. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions

On Friday, the major indices of the Indian stock markets closed with small gains over Thursday’s close. On the NSE, there were 629 advances, 911 declines and 33 unchanged. Key Indian equity indices recovered from the day's lows to trade on a flat-to-positive note on Friday with buying support from oil and gas, and banking stocks. The key indices -- which opened at fresh levels on Friday -- had slipped into the negative territory on a sudden sell-off on account of an unprecedented event in which four senior judges of the Supreme Court met the media to complain that the administration of the country's top court was not in order, said market observers. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions


IT (information technology) bellwether Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) declared again a whopping 700% dividend (Rs7 per share of Re1 face value) for the third quarter of fiscal 2017-18. The record dividend for the third consecutive quarter is in addition to Rs7 per share given for the second and first quarters in October 2017 and July 2017, taking the cumulative payout to Rs21 per share or a whopping 2,100% till December 31, 2017.The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions

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