Infosys share price hits over 1-year high; on joining HPE-Cloud28+community's vast network

Shares of IT major Infosys Limited rose 2.23% to Rs 1,044.80 on Friday, its highest since October 20, 2016. The stock broke above a resistance at Rs 1,020, the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement level of the downtrend from June 3, 2016, high of Rs 1,279.3 to August 22, 2017 low of Rs 860.

Infosys has joined Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)-driven Cloud28 plus community & digital platform. By leveraging the Cloud28+community's vast network of service providers, Skava (the wholly-owned subsidiary of Infosys) aims to expand its market presence in countries where business and regulatory considerations call for private & hybrid cloud deployments working with local partners.

Some analysts have turned bullish on the stock in the last one month, with ‘strong buy’ recommendations rising by two to 11 and ‘buy’ ratings by one to 11. The stock has 17 ‘hold’ recommendations, seven ‘sell’ and one ‘strong sell’.

Infosys is a global leader in technology services and consulting. The company enables clients in 45 countries to create and execute strategies for their digital transformation.

Yes Bank included in S&P BSE Sensex from Monday

Yes Bank Limited will be included the list of 30-most tracked stocks S&P BSE Sensex with effect from 18-December 2017,  Yes Bank stated in a regulatory filing.

The S&P BSE Sensex is the most tracked bellwether index of India Stock Market. It is designed to gauge the performance of the 30-largest, most liquid and financially sound companies across key sectors of the Indian economy that are listed at BSE Limited.

Shares of Yes Bank Limited closed 3.98% up at Rs. 316.05 on BSE, while the Sensex ended 216.27 points higher at 33,462.97.

Rupee climbs to 64.11 on exit poll findings win for BJP in Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh

According to the exit poll findings released yesterday, the BJP is set to keep up Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh from the Congress. This led to zoom the stock market to a great extent, impacting in turn the rupee sentiment.

The dollar lost some influence against the euro after the ECB left its policy rates and stimulus measures unharmed. The Bank of England also retained key interest rates unchanged.

The Indian currency jumped by 23 paise to 64.11, whereas bond yields edged lower in the morning after the exit polls indicated the country's ruling alliance would triumph elections in Modi’s home state but caution remained ahead of the actual results.

The benchmark Ten-year bond yield was down 1 bps at 7.12%, while the partially convertible rupee was at 64.15/dollar, with reference to its previous close of 64.34.

Meantime, in the opening stock trade Friday, the BSE Sensex barometer shot up 358.11 points to 33,605.11 while the NSE Nifty soared 110.20 points to 10,362.30.

NSE withdraws advance collection of service charges from October

National Stock Exchange (NSE) has decided to stop advance collection of service charges, including transaction fee related to cash market, equity derivatives and currency derivatives segments, from this month.

Moreover, the NSE would not collect in advance annual charges for applications related to connectivity and co-location. The step is effective for all new requests from October 2017, as per NSE circular.

The exchange shall raise appropriate bills on the member at the end of each month for services consumed during that month. However, it said interest-free security deposits and one time charges, if any, applicable, wherever, would be collected in advance.