The Nifty opened with a gap down on Friday after reaching a new all-time high in the previous session and experienced weak price action throughout the day, closing down by 293 points. Meanwhile, the Bank Nifty has been underperforming and may continue to do so. On Friday, the Nifty closed lower by 1.2% at 24,717.70, … Read more
Mirae Asset Investment Managers has announced the withdrawal of the existing temporary suspension on subscription through the Systematic Investment Plan (SIP), Systematic Transfer Plan (STP), switch-ins & lumpsum in Mirae Asset Large and Midcap Fund (‘the Scheme’) and enabling other facilities from August 1, 2024. The fund will resume accepting subscriptions through Systematic Investment Plans … Read more
While Nifty ended with modest weak-on-weak gains of 0.4%, the truncated trading week was laden with top action where over three dozen companies from large, mid and smallcap segments witnessed prominent block deals worth Rs 40,543 crore on screen, which included both buying and selling. In the largecap segment, 15 companies witnessed significant block deals … Read more
The capital appreciation story in the equity market is currently positive, largely driven by the results of the general election. SBI Securities provides insights into the recently concluded quarterly results season and recommends that investors take a diversified approach, focusing on the best-performing businesses across 12 sectors. The domestic brokerage firm has prioritized stocks with … Read more
On a sequential basis, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, and Axis Bank reported a faster growth in deposits for the March quarter compared with the credit growth while IndusInd Bank and Yes Bank showed marginally lower growth in deposits than advances. Synopsis While these lenders were able to increase deposits at a faster clip during the … Read more
Paytm has completed the migration of merchant customer accounts from its payment bank to other unified payments interface (UPI) after it received a go-ahead from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). On April 17, One97 Communications Limited (OCL), which runs Paytm, started the customer migration to partner with payment service provider (PSP) banks Axis … Read more
With Wipro and Infosys’ results out this week, the fourth quarter earnings season will now pick up pace as the upcoming week will witness the results for Axis Bank, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services, Tata Elxsi, along with 167 other companies. Other big players across sectors, like HUL, Indian Hotels, OFSS, … Read more
Paytm recently said that the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has allowed One97 Communications (OCL) to kick-start the migration of users to a new payment service provider (PSP) the bank handles. For this, four major banks — State Bank of India (SBI), Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, and YES Bank — will act as PSPs … Read more
Nifty Bank, which hit a fresh lifetime high above 49,000 last week, has given an average return of 5% during the March quarter earnings season 7 out of 10 times in the last 10 years, says Anand James, Chief Market Strategist, Geojit Financial Services. Edited excerpts from a chat with James on the market outlook … Read more
Shares of Gland Pharma fell up to 6% to the day’s low of Rs 1,745 on BSE in Tuesday’s trade after entities related to ex-promoter Dr Ravi Penmetsa likely sold 5.5% equity in the company. Large block deals of nearly 91 lakh shares were reported today in which shares worth about Rs 1,600 crore changed … Read more