MCX seeks Sebi nod for schemes to boost gold options volume

The Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) has sought approval from the market regulator Sebi for introducing liquidity enhancement schemes for its recently launched gold options contracts.

MCX’s gold options contracts daily average turnover declined to Rs. 130 crore in Nov as against Rs 297 crore in Oct. The daily average turnover of gold futures contracts on the MCX was Rs. 2054 cr, and Rs 2297 in October and November, respectively. 

The ratio of gold options contracts to gold futures contracts slipped to less than 3.5%, by volume, in Dec from over 14% in October. Prior to the launch of the gold options contract, market players were hoping volumes in this section would rise to at least two times those of gold futures contracts. 

The Sebi has particular guidelines for certain volumes in the existing Gold-options contracts before allowing contracts of smaller denominations. As per sources, MCX was likely to engage jewellers and organize awareness programmes to enlarge volumes in gold-options contracts. 

Sensex falls 100 points, Nifty below 10,300 ahead of WPI data

Benchmark indices were trading lower on Tuesday ahead of key inflation data. The BSE Sensex is trading lower by 125 points at 33,330.76, while the NSE Nifty50 falls 49.15 points to 10,273.10 in the later morning hours. The government will announce Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Index of Industrial Production (IIP) data later in the day.

Shares of Dr Reddy’s rose 5% to Rs. 2,287.85 after the company said the US FDA issued an Establishment Inspection Report for the company’s plant-3 in Hyderabad.

Tata Motors Limited has said that the company will be increasing prices of its whole passenger vehicles ranging by upto Rs.25,000, starting Jan 2018, as per the BSE filing.

L&T InfoTech Limited completes acquisition of 100% stake in banking solution provider Syncordis-SA.

Asian stocks edged up, extending their recent gains after US stocks hit fresh records Friday. Major indices are up gradually with Nikkei 225 hitting a 26-year high.

Rupee: The Indian rupee was trading at 64.44 per dollar, down 0.11 percent from its last close of 64.37. It opened at 64.46 per dollar on Tuesday.

Gold: COMEX Gold is currently quoting at USD 1251.60, up marginally on the day. MCX Gold futures are being traded at Rs 28,470 per 10 grams, down 0.22 percent on the day.

RBI keeps key policy rate unchanged at 6%

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) monetary policy committee (MPC) on Wednesday kept the repo rate unchanged at its 5th bimonthly MPC meeting, given the warning over rising inflation.

The result was along the lines of the majority of market expectation, which anticipated the RBI to keep the key repo rate (the rate at which it infuses liquidity in the banking system) unchanged at 6 percent.

In the preceding meeting in October, the RBI had maintained status quo on rates. Since then, inflation based on the consumer price index (CPI) has grown to 3.58 percent, the fastest pace in 7 months, owing rising food and fuel prices.

Indian Energy Exchange IPO to open on 9 October

Indian Energy Exchange Ltd’s (IEX) IPO is all set to open for subscription from 9-11 October. The IEX has set a price range of Rs 1,645-1,650 per equity share of face value Rs. 10. It is expected to garner Rs. 1000.73 crore from the offer at the upper end of the price band by selling 60.65 lakh equity shares. The floor price of the shares is 164.5 times the face value and the cap-price is 165 times of the face value. 

The IPO will see a sale of 60,65,009 equity shares by existing shareholders which included Tata Power Company,  private equity arm of AB Group, Madison India Capital and Multiples Alternate Asset Management. IEX is India’s first power exchange providing automated trading platform for electricity and renewable energy certificates.

Sensex Nifty Slipping Down - Auto, FMCG, Oil stocks tumble

After a huge rally yesterday, Stock market gone into heavy losses today. Currently Sensex has slumped 392 points at 27124 and Nifty has lost 133 points at 8392. Except Healthcare sector, all the sectors are going through heavy losses. BSE Small Cap has dropped 279 points at 12647, BSE MidCap has moved down 312 points at 12619 and Nifty Midcap lost 335 points at 15055. Just 424 shares have advanced, about 1888 shares have declined and 122 shares are still unchanged. 

Sun Pharma, ONGC, BHEL, SBI and Bank of Baroda are gainers while UltraTechCement, Bharti Infratel, GAIL, Adani Portsand Eicher Motors are the losers in NSE. 

Asian Market is also slipping down today. Nikkei is 23 points up at 17368, Hang Seng dropped 272 points at 22566 and Taiwan index is live at 8957 with 194 points down.