Rupee hits over 2-week high Versus US dollar

The Indian rupee today hit over two-week high against the dollar, tracking gains in Asian currencies markets. In the afternoon hours today, the rupee was trading at 64.74 against the USD, up 0.17% from its yesterday’s close of 64.85. The rupee opened at 64.83 per dollar and touched a high of 64.72 levels.

So far this year, the rupee has gained 4.5 percent, while FPIs have bought 5.80 billion dollar in equity market and 22.48 billion dollar in debt market each. The dollar index was trading at 94.519, down 0.04 percent from its previous close of 94.56.

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.

Mahindra Logistics is all set to launch its Rs. 829 crore IPO on Tuesday

Mahindra Logistics Limited, the subsidiary of Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), is all set to launch its Rs. 829 Cr Initial Public Offering (IPO) on Tuesday, 31 October, 2017, at the upper end of the price band. The company has set a price band of Rs 425 - 429 per share for its offer. The offer will remain open for 3 days for subscription from 31 Oct to 2nd Nov 2017.

The IPO will be based on 100 percent share sale through the Offer-for-sale (OFS) route from its on-hand shareholders of 1.93 cr with total equity shares of face value of Rs.10 each. The IPO of Mahindra Logistics Ltd, however, does not hold fresh issue of equity shares.

Kotak Mahindra Capital Company and Axis Capital are the book running lead managers to the issue. Mahindra Logistics is a part of the Mahindra Partners Division of the Mahindra Group which operates in two separate business viz. supply chain management (SCM) and corporate people transport solutions (PTS).