BSE to auction investment limits for Rs 8,300-cr corp bonds

Leading bourse Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has said it will auction investment limits on Friday, to enable foreign investors to purchase corporate bonds worth over Rs 8,300 cr. The auction will be carried out on the BSE’s e-bidXchange platform from 3.30 pm to 5.30 pm, after the close of market hours.

The debt auction quota gives overseas investors the right to invest in the debt up to the limit purchased. A mock bidding session will be carried out on Thursday after the end hours of market to check the performance of the system.

Earlier, in this month, the corporate debt had attracted bids for Rs 12,005 cr from FPIs in an auction of investment limits for such securities, much higher than Rs 9,018 cr that was on offer.

Reliance General Insurance enters into multiyear “Bancassurance” tie-up with YES Bank

Add caption

Non-life Insurer, Reliance General Insurance Co. Ltd (RGI), a subsidiary of Reliance Capital has inked a comprehensive Bancassurance tie-up (A corporate Agency agreement) with YES BANK with the aim to distribute multiple general insurance products to the YES BANK customers, further expanding its distribution network.

This is the first tie-up signed by the bank since the open-architecture norms under the Corporate Agency regulations were introduced by IRDAI in April 2016. With this alliance, Yes Bank remains committed to leveraging its Pan-India branch network to capitalize on the vast opportunities in the Indian bancassurance market.

The bancassurance channel is expected to have potential to reach out to the last mile and serve untapped markets, thus promoting the insurance penetration in India. 

Khadim India Ltd lists on bourses tomorrow

Footwear retailer Khadim India will list on Exchange on Tuesday, 13 November 2017, following the conclusion of its Rs. 543 cr OPO offer last week.

Khadim India’s IPO was subscribed 1.90 times during 2 Nov to 6th. The price band for the IPO was fixed at Rs. 745-750 per share. The offer comprised fresh issue of equity shares aggregating up to Rs. 50 crore, besides an OFS of up to 65,74,093 shares by existing shareholders.

The net proceeds from the issue are to be used towards payment of loans and general corporate needs. Axis Capital & IDFC Bank were the lead managers to the issue.

HDFC Life Insurance IPO Opens For Subscription till Nov 9

HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company (HDFC Life) aims to go public with its IPO, which opened today and will close on 9 November 2017.  HDFC Life issue was subscribed 5% at 11:45 am, as per NSE data.

HDFC Life has expected to garner Rs 8,695.01 crore at the upper end of the price band through its share sale in a 3-day bidding process starting today. The company has set a price band of Rs 275 - 290 for its IPO, in which HDFC will offload 9.52% and Standard Life will do 5.4% each. 

The total number of shares on sale are 29.98 crore with each having a face value of Rs.10. After the IPO, HDFC Life's market cap will range between Rs. 55,247 crore and Rs. 58,260 crore at the lower and upper share price, respectively.  

Tata Commn betting big on Internet of Things, to spend USD 100 mln in 2-3 yrs

Tata Communications Ltd is set to invest about USD 100 mln in the Internet of Things (IoT), a digital space the company is betting big on in coming years. The company has already rolled out its dedicated Internet-of-Things network in 38 cities across the country, together with a platform to manage the services that supports very low power consumption, said the Sr. V.P & Head, Tata Communications, Mr. VS Shridhar.

The company will also expand its LoRa network in India by 2018, Shridhar said. LoRa network is a low power wide area network, a powerful tool for mapping smart city applications and urban planning at a low bit rate.

Tata Communications focus on the enterprise biz, mostly in the B2B domain, and will be leveraging on first-mover advantage in building high networks and synchronizing with robust platforms with global leaders, it added.

Stocks of Tata Communications Limited were up 1.22% to Rs 689.00 on closing hours on NSE on Friday.

Infosys, the top loser on the Nifty index; stock trades ex-dividend

I.T major Infosys Ltd was the top loser on the Nifty index as the company started trading ex-dividend on Tuesday. Infosys stock fell 2.4% to Rs. 921.3 posting it the biggest intraday percentage loss since Sept 4. The stock was down about 7% this year up to the close of yesterday 30 October 30.

Infosys Ltd had decided, 1^st Nov 2017 as the record date for determining the names and rights of the equity shareholders, enabling them to participate in the buyback. The buyback was announced on 19 August 2017. It involved buying back of 11.3 cr shares through a tender offer at a price of Rs.1150 per share resulting in a total offer size of Rs.13000 cr.

Top stocks in spotlight on 18 Oct 2017

Stock Market opened lower on Wednesday against the previous session’s closing. The Sensex and Nifty fell in the morning hours. The Indian rupee strengthened a little bit against the USD. The shares of Wipro Ltd, Kotak Bank and Reliance rose, while the shares of Axis Bank and ICICI Bank fell.

The following stock, among others, will be in spotlight today 18 Oct 2017:- UltraTech Cement, Hindustan Zinc Ltd , Havells India Ltd, Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd, NIIT Technologies, NOCIL are some of the major companies that are announcing their Q2 results today. 

Wipro Ltd has reported a 5.5% jump in sequential and 6% rise in year-on-year rise in net profit at Rs 2189.50 crore for the Sept quarter. Wipro has given guidance of USD 2014 million to USD 2054 million for December quarter revenue from its IT services business.

ONGC Stocks: State-run Oil & Natural Gas Corpn will invite bids from oilfield service providers to boost up output from some of its ageing fields under a long-term contract.

The two-wheeler maker Bajaj Auto Ltd has posted a 1% decline in net profit to Rs 1123 crore for the Sept quarter, largely on account of flat two-wheeler sales and rising input costs. 

Reliance Industries Ltd has submitted a USD 1.4-billion plan to generate 7 million cubic metres a day of natural gas from KG-D6 deep-sea fields in the Bay of Bengal.

Agri-commodity Preview: Cardamom falls, crude palm oil rises at MCX

Cardamom prices fell by Rs 18.90 to Rs 1,050.30/kg in futures market on Tuesday as traders scaled down holdings amid sluggish demand at the spot market. The offloading positions by participants despite slow demand in the spot market against sufficient stocks position on higher supplies, is attributed to the plunge in cardamom prices at futures trade.

At the MCX, cardamom for delivery in far-month January next year fell by Rs 18.90, or 1.77%, to Rs 1,050.30/kg, in a business turnover of 1- lot. On the other hand, the spice for delivery in Nov’ moth was trading down by Rs 7.40, or 0.72%, to Rs 1,018  kg, with a trading volume of 50 lots.

Meantime, the prices of Crude palm were on higher side by 0.31 percent to Rs.539.10/ 10 kg in futures trade today, since traders generated fresh positions, aided by pickup in demand at the spot market.  In futures trading at the MCX, crude palm oil for delivery October rushed by Rs 1.70, or 0.31%, to Rs 539.10 /10 kg, in a business turnover of 55 lots. Likewise, the oil for delivery in November jumped by Rs 1.50, or 0.28%, to Rs 535.60 /10 kg in 37 lots.

General Insurance Corp IPO fully subscribed on strong QIB demand

The Rs 11,370 crore mega initial public offer of General Insurance Corpn of India (GIC Re) got fully subscribed on Day third day of the bidding process on Friday under strong demand from qualified institutional buyers (QIB).

The issue received bids for 12,61,97,408 shares, which were 1.01 times the issue size of 12,47,00,000 shares on offer after lunch hours. The quota for QIB was subscribed 1.79 times, retail 32%, while non-institutional investor witnessed 5% subscription.

The company’s gross premium has grown at CAGR of 24.84% in FY15-17. On consolidated basis, the company’s gross premium has grown at a CAGR of 48.65% FY1517.

General Insurance Corpn of India’s IPO is India’s third biggest after Coal India Ltd’s Rs 15,200 crore and Reliance Power Ltd’s Rs 11,700 crore issues in 2008.

Kalyan Jewellers lines up Rs. 135.00 crore investment in Uttar Pradesh

Kerala-based Kalyan Jewellers has lined up investment of about Rs 135 crore to expand its track in the market in Uttar Pradesh. The Indian jewellery store chain, Kalyan Jewellers, which already run a company owned retail store in Noida, on today, 4th October 2017, announced to launch its 116th outlet in Lucknow.

As stated by the Executive Director of Kalyan Jewellers, Mr. Ramesh Kalyanaraman, the company have invested close to Rs 75.00  crore in the Lucknow market and by the end of this financial year, its third UP store would materialize in Kanpur. “Uttar Pradesh was a big market and contributed almost 10% to the country’s jewellery segment, which is still dominated by the local unorganized players. Before entering this market, proper diligence and market research had conducted to explore flourishing prospects in the business. We found that our brand provided the perfect proposition to the state customers taking into account of the product, design and value”, Kalyanaraman added.

The company has also under planning to launch new stores in other cities of the North, including Bhopal and Indore. The company claims a dedicated customer base of almost 1.5 million with 70% repeat buyers.

Kalyanaraman informed over the past few weeks, the domestic jewellery segment had registered an unpick in demand and the players were optimistic that the momentum would further pick up in the months ahead.

Gold prices rose after hitting a 7-week low US dollar retreats

Price of Gold advanced on Wednesday 4th October 2017, after hitting a 7-week low in the last session, sustained as the USD pulled back from 45-days high against a basket of currencies. At the morning hours, spot gold had risen 0.3% to USD 1,275.34 per ounce and touched its lowest since middle August at USD 1,267.76 on Tuesday.

As per economic point of view, the price of Gold has steadied in last one day, with a hindering US dollar contributing to the move. Further, Long liquidation throughout last fourteen days has put gold on a more sound footing. However, the dollar on Wednesday shed gains against a basket of main currencies over assumption that Donald Trump’s choice for the next US Fed Reserve chair may not be so aggressive against previously forethought.

Among other precious metals, silver rose 0.8% to USD 16.72 an ounce. Palladium jumped 0.7% to USD 921 an ounce while Platinum was 0.5% higher at USD 912 an ounce.

Meantime, Indian rupee made stronger against the USD ahead of the RBI bi-monthly policy outcome due late hours on Wednesday. The rupee opened at 65.34 per USD and was trading at 65.35 v/s dollar, up 0.24% from its last day’s close of 65.50. So forth this year, the domestic currency has gained 4%, while FPIs have bought USD 5.51 billion in equity market and USD 20.05 billion in debt market.

Best Stock Tips for Today (25th September)

Shares of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), Divis’ Laboratories Ltd and Tata Steel Ltd were trading on Monday morning on NSE, as the most active stocks in terms of value on by Rs 58.42 crore, Rs 54.66 crore and Rs 54.02 crore, respectively. Media Company, NDTV shot up by around 5 percent on the exchanges during Monday’s trade. The stock jumped to breach its upper circuit of Rs 55.75, up by 4.99 percent on BSE in the early trade on Monday.

The other stocks in terms of value includes Axis Bank by Rs 48.95 cr, Maruti Suzuki Ltd by Rs 37.38 cr, Vedanta Ltd by Rs 36.70 cr, Aurobindo Pharma by Rs 35.14 cr, SBI by Rs 35.09 crore, Dr Reddy’s Labs by Rs 34.95 cr, India bulls Housing by Rs 33.11 cr, Bajaj Finance by Rs 32.24 cr and Tata Motors by Rs 32.15 cr.

The BSE Sensex is trading at 31,690 down by 214 points, while NSE Nifty is trading at 9,879 down by 84 points. A total of 17 stocks clocked a fresh 52-week high in trade today, while 47 stocks registered a new 52-week low on the NSE.

On the other hand, stocks of Bharti Infratel up 1.47%, Power Grid up 1.36%, Tata Power up 1%, TCS up 0.78%, ITC up 0.30%, NTPC up 0.24% and HUL up 0.23% were gaining in trade. All the sectorial stocks were trading in negative terrain. The Nifty realty index was down 2.27%, while Nifty Bank index fell 0.96%.

FPIs sold shares worth a net Rs. 1,241.73 crore on Friday, as per provisional data released by the exchanges. Adani Ports, Tata Steel, and L&T were major losers, while TCS and Power Grid were top gainers.