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Market Ahead, January 12: Top factors that could guide markets today

Indian benchmark indices look set to take a pause after Monday's stellar rally, with SGX Nifty futures trading 32 points down at 14,463 around 7.15 am

Stock picks by Nilesh Jain of Anand Rathi: Buy Hero Moto, Colgate Palmolive

The volume in Colgate Palmolive stock was higher than average on January 11 which supports the price action and we can expect the upside momentum to continue

Sensex closes in on 50,000 milestone, Nifty ends at 14,484; IT stocks gain

Indian stocks continue to be the beneficiaries of benign foreign portfolio investor (FPI) flows amid signs of recovery in the economy

Acuite Group launches firm to provide ESG ratings, assess performance

Its assessment approach includes identification of relevant risks, estimation of materiality and polarity of the risks, and evaluation of risk management framework

DHFL a test case whose successful resolution is critical for banking sector

Reports suggest a potential recovery of 35 per cent from the bid process compared to an average recovery of seven per cent

GAIL to consider share buyback, dividend on January 15

GAIL (India) Ltd, the nation's largest gas distribution firm, will on Friday consider buyback of shares with a view to returning surplus cash to shareholders, the biggest being the Government of India

NSE launches derivatives on Nifty financial services index

This will give more flexibility to institutional as well as retail investors to manage their hedge

Investments in chemical biz, recovery in refrigerants to boost SRF earnings

Continued demand momentum in packaging and films segment add to the optimism

'Full-blown mania': US stock market jackpot bells just keep ringing

Four days after ending the year at almost 40x earnings, the Nasdaq 100 Index posted its biggest rally in two months

India maintains global market capitalisation ranking at number 8: Report

China, which was at number 5 in 2010, is now at number 2 with an m-cap of $10.9 trillion

Top 5 Nifty50 stocks contribute 42.4%, against 42.66% in November

Market pundits believe that the market rally this year is likely to be less concentrated and that polarisation - where a handful of stocks outperform the index - will become less pronounced in 2021

Promoter pledging declines to a two-year low of 11% in December

But value of pledged holding rises, buoyed by market rally

Alternative investment funds get partial relief as Sebi relaxes norms

Under the new norms, members of an investment committee of an AIF will no longer be responsible for investment decisions.

DMart scales Rs 2 trn market cap after strong festival-driven Q3 show

Upsides could be capped in the near term on margin pressures

IGX eyes 5% of total spot LNG and domestic gas trade on its exchange

Since its launch in June 2020, some 2 million standard cubic meters a day (mscmd) of natural gas have been traded on the Gas Trading Platform; current demand in India is around 160 mscmd

Market Wrap, Jan 11: Here's all that happened in the markets today

Frontline Sensex hit a record peak of 49,304 in the intra-day deals today before settling 487 points, or 1 per cent, higher at 49,269 levels

Early Q3 nos lift mkts; Sensex ends 487 pts up at 49,269, Nifty at 14,485

Volatility index, India VIX, surged 8.5 per cent to 22.4 levels

Nifty Auto index at over 2-year high on hopes of strong Q3 earnings growth

Nifty Auto index has jumped 8 per cent on a year-to-date basis in 2021

Apollo Micro shares zoom 20% on orders worth Rs 50 crore from BEL

The Company bagged a supply order from Bharat Electronics worth Rs 49.86 crore with a repeat order clause, for maximum of 120 per cent of the units originally ordered

Tata Motors climbs 4%, hits 52-week high on improved earnings outlook

The stock has rallied 47 per cent in the past three months and 89 per cent in the last six months