MCX raises maximum compensation limit to Rs.25 lakh from IPF

MCX (Multi Commodity Exchange of India) on Thursday announced the enhancement of maximum compensation that could be availed by investors to Rs. 25.00 lakhs from the existing Rs.2.00 lakhs per claim.

MCX has established and maintained an Investor Protection Fund viz. Multi Commodity Exchange Investor (Client) Protection Fund (MCX IPF), with the aim of compensating investors in the event of defaulters' assets not being adequate to meet the legitimate claims of investors.

MCX also promotes investor awareness and education to increase literacy, participation in the commodity derivatives market and utilized for such other purpose as prescribed by the Sebi.

The maximum amount of compensation available against a single claim of an investor arising out of default of a member of exchange is presently Rs. 2.00 besides the maximum available compensation being Rs.2.00 crore per defaulter member.

In today’s, NSE Closing hours, shares of Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd was traded at Rs. 744.75 down by 2.14% at Rs.744.75 as compared to the previous close of Rs. 761.00. The stock hit an intraday high and low of Rs. 759.40 and 741.15

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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. 

Live market Update, Sensex at 29,007 Levels

The benchmark BSE Sensex down about 41.14 points at 29007.05, at 10.50 am Tuesday, while NSE Nifty is trading at 8,945 down 17.70 points. The BSE Mid Cap index rose 0.03% and BSE Small Cap down 0.10%. On the BSE, 1,055 shares rose and 1,007 shares declined and a total of 94 shares were unchanged.
Overseas, Asian stocks registered a mixed trend along with weak closing on the Wall Street overnight.  US stocks recorded modest losses on Monday, 6 March 2017, as the possibilities of tighter monetary policy from the Fed Reserve sunk in for investors.
The Commodity precious metal Gold futures tumbled under Rs 29,000 levels on MCX on Monday as poor global cues hurt sentiments. COMEX Gold down near 2½ Week low yet again on sound economic data and Federal rate hike concerns.
In domestic markets, Crude Oil prices were down 0.03% to Rs 3, 555 per barrel. The prices of Crude Oil tested a high of Rs 3,574 per barrel and a low of Rs 3, 530 per barrel.

Silver Slides Nearly 2% On MCX, Breaks Under Rs 41K

MCX Silver took a huge fall today as COMEX Silver drooped following the hike in interest rates by US Federal Reserve. COMEX Silver futures slipped in Asian trades since Gold dropped to a fresh 10- month low. US dollar soared sharply as the US Fed hiked interest rate by a 0.25 percent  and showed more to come next year.
Dollar index is around its 15 year highs, trading above 102 levels right now. COMEX Silver plunged by 2.50 percent to USD 16.78 per ounce.
MCX Silver futures also followed the same cues and dropped at the very start only;  The counter opened with a sharp gap of over Rs 400 per kg and currently trades at Rs. 40, 965 /kg, down 1.83 percent  on the day.

Equity Benchmarks Strong Opening, Sensex Reclaims 28000 level

Stock Market started on a higher note in the morning trade on Friday. Benchmark indices are trading with fabulous leads. Sensex live at 28017 with 303 points hike and Nifty live at 8641 with 90 points lead. All the major sectors are trading in the positive zone. BSE Small Cap with 127 points hike live at 12255, BSE Midcap with 118 points hike live at 12605, Nifty Midcap currently on 14734 witk 139 points up and the Auto sector is leading of all with 244 points hike at 21253. Asian Market is trading mixed. Nikkei dropped 11 points to 16243, Hang Seng with 301 points up trading at 22134 and Shanghai Composite with 3 points down live at 2979 points. MCX and NCDEX market are showing the average movements. MCX Gold dropped 20 points to 31760 and Silver slided 127 points down to 47550. Crude Oil and Natural Gas with minor drop are trading at 2782 and 189 points respectively. Rmseed dropped 7 points to 4924, Soyabean had a minor drop of 2 points at 3628 and Cocudakl uplifted 9 points to 2547.

MCX CPO prices gain on higher domestic demand

MCX CPO March future prices yesterday opened on a positive note and it traded up for most part of the day. The MCX CPO future prices closed higher on pick up in domestic demand. According to Solvent Extractors Association, palm oil imports in January are at 688,393 MT down by 12.6% on Mo-M. BMD the CPO futures at MCX may trade positively today on supply concerns amid higher domestic demand. The imports are likely to continue as is still the cheapest edible oil available in the domestic market.

Kapas futures on Indian exchanges traded in a narrow range and ended the day marginally down. Overall the sentiment was on  bearish side as the traders were on selling side as the consumption demand is meager across major spot markets. Exporters were away from active buying due to limited export enquiries as the China is not buying cotton in bulk quantity. On the other hand, China is releasing its stocks in the market at discounted price.

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Weekly Update for the Budget Week

This week started with an impressive opening, Monday morning was quite stressful because of the upcoming budget and market was moving slow but the market starting falling heavily downwards as the budget was getting announced. After the completion of the full budget announcement, market surprisingly took a jump of approx 467 points on that day. While following the same trend the Indian Market closed with an approximate hike of 3.5% on Tuesday. Except the Telecom and Aviation, all other sectors had received major hikes on that day. The Stock Market seemed slowing down on Friday but still ended up with positive leads. Overall this week, Sensex hiked up by 1552 points and Nifty hiked up by 462 points. 

This week Rupee has received the gain of 2.2% against the Dollar and went up to the top of last 12 weeks. This whole Rupee has performed nicely and got closed at 67.08 with the hike of 26 paise on the last trading day. 

The week starting wasn't mach good for Mcx Commodities but in the last 2 days Mcx made a surprising recovery and ended up in green zone with positive leads. Overall this week, Gold hiked by approx 208 points and Silver hiked by approx 1700 points.