On Tuesday, Indian share market extended losses as the session progressed and ended deep in the red.
Indian shares reversed all the gains made on Monday and shed 1% after hawkish comments from Federal Reserve officials and a warning from IT giant TCS dampened sentiment.
At the closing bell on Tuesday, the BSE Sensex stood lower by 632 points (down 1%).
Meanwhile, the NSE Nifty lower by 187 points (down 1%).
Tata Motors, Hindalco, and Apollo Hospitals were among the top gainers.
Adani Enterprises, Bharti Airtel, and Eicher Motors, on the other hand, were among the top losers.
Broader markets settled on a negative note. The BSE Midcap index and the BSE SmallCap index dived 0.5% lower.
Sectoral indices ended on a mixed note with stocks in the finance sector, IT sector, and telecom sector witnessing most of the selling.
While stocks in metal sector, and oil & gas sector witnessed buying.
Shares of Mahindra CIE Auto and Schneider Electric Infra hit their 52-week high on Tuesday.
The rupee was trading at 81.7 against the US$.
Gold prices for the latest contract on MCX were trading lower by 0.2% at Rs 55,759 per 10 grams at the time of Indian market closing hours on Tuesday.
At 7:20 AM today, the SGX Nifty was trading down by 6 points or 0.1% lower at 17,900 levels.
Indian share markets are headed for a flat opening today following the trend on SGX Nifty.
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Coal India will be among the top buzzing stocks today.
Coal India has issued letters of acceptance for nine greenfield projects to engage mining developers-cum-operators, which have a cumulative production capacity of 127 MT per year.
A total of 15 projects with 169 MT capacity are on offer that aims to develop through MDOs, with an investment of around Rs. 206 bn.
Zydus Lifesciences will also be in focus today.
Zydus Lifesciences on Tuesday received final approval from the US health regulator to market its generic version of Febuxostat tablets used to treat high uric acid in the blood.
The approval granted by the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) to market Febuxostat tablets is for strengths of 40 mg and 80 mg.
Shares of Gautam Adani Group companies were under pressure on Tuesday, falling up to 8%, wiping off Rs 665 m from the market cap of the group.
All 10 companies of Gautam Adani's conglomerate were trading in red during the second half of the trading session.
Adani Enterprises, the flagship firm of the Adani Group, tanked by 8%. Adani total gas, Adani Ports and SEZ, and Adani Wilmar fell 4%. While other Adani companies, Adani Green Energy, Adani Transmission and Adani Power lost between 3-4%.
Recently acquired cement players Ambuja Cement and ACC were also down 3% each.
Adani Enterprises is likely to launch a mega FPO amounting to Rs 200 bn that is likely to find some big investors like Gulf sovereign wealth funds and strategic equity partner International Holding Company (IHC), suggest media reports.
This will lead to a marginal 3.5% dilution for the promoters, and the company may file the red herring prospectus (RHP) later this month.
This created negative sentiment for Adani group stocks, pulling the fastest-growing stocks of 2022 lower.
The rupee gained 57 paise to close at 81.7 (provisional) against the US dollar on Tuesday, supported by a weaker greenback overseas. It registered the biggest single-day gain since November 2022.
The dollar index has dropped almost 2% over the last two sessions on expectations that the Fed is likely to pause its rate hiking cycle after two 0.25% hikes.
This continued struggle in dollar since US job report have helped the currency to hedge high.
The rupee became the best performer among the Asian currencies following stop order triggers and inflows from bond selling.
However, sustained foreign fund outflows and a weak trend in domestic equities dented investor sentiments.
At the interbank foreign exchange market, the local unit touched an intra-day high of 81.72 and a low of 82.26 against the greenback.
The rupee was falling for quite some time now, depreciating below 83 per dollar.
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Electronic manufacturing services and solutions provider Cyient DLM has filed the draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) with the capital market watchdog Sebi to raise funds through an initial public offering (IPO).
The wholly owned subsidiary of IT services company Cyient is looking to raise Rs 7.4 bn through a fresh issue of equity shares.
It may also consider raising to Rs 1.5 bn by way of the private placement, rights issue, preferential offer or any other method before filing the red herring prospectus with the Registrar of Companies.
If it raises funds through the pre-IPO placement, the fresh issue size will be reduced accordingly.
The company will allocate 75% of the net offer for the qualified institutional bidders, whereas non-institutional bidders will get 15% of the net offer. The remaining 10% of shares will be allocated to retail investors.
Cyient DLM is an integrated electronic manufacturing service (EMS) and solutions provider with strong capabilities across the value chain and the entire life cycle of a product.
It offers end-to-end (E2E) manufacturing, assembly and repair capabilities and re-engineering services with a focus on sectors like aerospace, defense, medical, energy, railways and other industries.
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