Extending its winning streak for the seventh straight session, equity benchmark Sensex soared 680 points to scale another lifetime high on Tuesday, tracking a global market rally driven by Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine trials data. After touching its lifetime peak of 43,316.44 during the day, the 30-share BSE index ended 680.22 points or 1.60 per cent higher at 43,277.65. The broader NSE Nifty too touched a fresh intra-day high of 12,643.90. It ended at 12,631.10, up 170.05 points or 1.36 per cent. Bajaj Finance was the top gainer in the Sensex pack, surging around 9 per cent, followed by IndusInd Bank, L&T, Bajaj Finserv, HDFC, SBI, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, ONGC and Axis Bank. On the other hand, Tech Mahindra, HCL Tech, Infosys, Nestle India, Sun Pharma and TCS closed in the red. "Announcements by BioNTech and Pfizer about successful phase 3 trial of COVID-19 vaccine instilled confidence among investors and possibility of sustained economic recovery led sharp buying in beaten down ...
Trading longs should have stoploss at 11,700 in Nifty
Ipca Labs has tripled in the last one year from the lows of Rs 817 and continues to hold the same strength and momentum. Charts indicate more headroom from the current levels
The auto pack is largely trading in tandem with the benchmark and most stocks have recovered to their pre-Covid levels
Analysts at Credit Suisse expect retail loan delinquencies at 5-10 per cent for private banks and 9 - 12 per cent for NBFCs
Shriram Transport Finance, Asian Paints, Nestle India, L&T, Bajaj Finance, Colgate-Palmolive India, Shree Cement, Ipca Laboratories, NTPC and Pidilite Industries were up in the range of 3% to 8%
Bajaj Finance has indicated that its rural and urban consumer businesses were at 91 per cent and 72 per cent of year-ago volumes and so far the lender has restructured only Rs 252 crore of loans
The Pune-headquartered company said new loans booked during the second quarter dropped 44 per cent to 3.61 million
The non-banking finance company had posted a net profit of Rs 1,506 crore in the July-September quarter a year ago.
All that happened in the markets today
The lender, in Q1FY21, took an additional contingency provision of Rs 1,450 crore for the pandemic, taking the total amount to Rs 2,350 crore as of June 30
Lender's caution on customer additions and fresh loan disbursals suggests the unpredictable nature of retail asset quality, say analysyts.
New loans declined sharply to 3.6 million from 6.5 million year-on-year and 5 million quarter-on-quarter.
Nifty has broken out from the rising wedge pattern on the daily chart
The results outcome have seen profit booking on the gap up opening
Rahul Bajaj has decided to demit the office as chairman of the board with effect from close of business hours on July 31
Higher provisioning in line with priority to mitigate balance-sheet risk
The board has appointed Sanjiv Bajaj, currently the Vice Chairman of the Company, as Non-Executive Chairman of the Company with effect from August 1, 2020
Net profit down 19 per cent to Rs 962 crore from Rs 1,195 crore in Q1FY20
We might witness weakness only if Nifty breaks level of 10,700