M&M Financial Services raises Rs1,056 Cr, via QIP

Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Limited has raised Rs 1056 cr, through a qualified institutional placement (QIP) issue.

The company in its BSE filing reads:- The securities issue committee of the board of the directors of Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Limited has approved the allotment of 2,40,00,000 equity shares of face value of Rs.2.00 each to qualified institutional buyers under the qualified institutions placement (QIP) at the issue price of Rs.440/- per equity share aggregating Rs. 1,056 cr.” The qualified institutional placement opened on Nov 30 and closed on Dec 5.

Shares of Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services on Thursday rose 2.74 percent to Rs. 456.20 on the BSE while the benchmark Sensex surged 1.08 percent points to end the day at 32,949.21 points.

Bharti Airtel adds over Rs 10,000 crore in market cap

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Shares of Bharti Airtel advanced more than 7% in the late afternoon trades on Thursday. Following the massive surge in the stock prices of Bharti Airtel, it topped in Sensex and Nifty constitutes, simultaneously. The stock of Bharti Airtel gained at 7.11% to Rs 518.4 on BSE whereas it spiked 7.24% to Rs 518.5 on NSE.

With a huge surge in the share prices of Bharti Airtel, the market capitalization (M-Cap) of the company got an admiration of Rs 13,771.04 crore to Rs 2,07,225.22 crore from Rs 1,93,454.18 a day earlier. Shares of Bharti Airtel settled up 6.94% at Rs 517.00 on NSE, on closing today.

Meantime, the key benchmark Sensex & Nifty opened almost unchanged in green but soon extended the gains on Thursday on the back of value buying after an eight-day negation which led the key benchmark indices to drop by 3 percent. On closing, BSE Sensex jumped 352.03 points or 1.08% at 32,949.21 45 while NSE Nifty edged up 122.60 points or 1.22% to 10,166.70.

Gold declines below Rs. 30-K-mark on weak global cues

Gold prices slips below the Rs. 30,000-mark on Thursday, going down  by Rs. 100 to trade at over 3-month low of Rs. 29,950 per 10 grams at the bullion market on account of  a weak trend overseas along with muted demand from local jewelers. Similarly, price of Silver also plunged Rs. 375 to Rs. 38,125 per kg owing to reduced off-take by industrial units and coin makers. Globally, the rates of gold fell 0.45 percent to USD 1,257.10 an ounce and silver by 0.31 percent to USD 15.87 an ounce in Singapore.

In New Delhi, gold of 99.9% & 99.5% purity declined by Rs. 100 each to Rs. 29,950 and Rs. 29,800 per 10 grams, each. The yellow metal had lost Rs. 200 on Wednesday, while Sovereign followed suit and fell by Rs. 100 to Rs. 24,400 per piece of 8 grams.

Silver ready dropped by Rs. 375 to Rs. 38,125/ kg and weekly-based delivery by Rs. 440 to Rs. 37,335/kg.  Silver coins also dipped by Rs. 1,000 at Rs. 71,000 for buying and Rs. 72,000 for selling of 100 pieces.