Skip to main content

Stock Market News - LIC Housing Finance Falls, Yes Bank, ITC top gainers

LIC Housing Finance Falls The Most In Nearly A Year - Shares of the non-banking lender declined as much as 7.6 percent, its biggest intraday slide since September last year. to Rs 428.35 each. Around 6.7 percent or 3.4 crore shares changed hands in seven block deals, according to Bloomberg data. 


Buyers and sellers were not known immediately. Bloomberg earlier reported an undisclosed institutional shareholder of the company has sought to raise between $200-211 million through an offering of about 3.37 crore shares, according to terms for the deal obtained by Bloomberg. The offering will be at priced between Rs 425.15-449.50 per share, the report added.

Yes Bank, ITC top gainers - Yes Bank, ITC were among the biggest gainers, jumping up to 2%. Tata Steel, HCL Tech were among the biggest losers, shedding up to 1.7%.

NEWS ALERT | 

1. Biocon's Malaysia insulin glargine manufacturing facility receives EU GMP certification

2. L&T Hydro bags order in the range of Rs 2,500-Rs 5,000 cr from Saudi Aramco

3. 6.2% equity of LIC Housing exchanged

Rupee Opens: The Indian rupee opened flat at 71.56 per dollar on Thursday versus previous close 71.55.

CATCH THE ALL MARKET UPDATES - 
  • DHFL sheds 4%
  • DLF cracks over 13%
  • Vedanta cracks over 2%
  • Maruti Suzuki trades lower
  • Oberoi Realty slips over 3%
  • Indiabulls Ventures dips 6%
  • Exide Industries slips nearly 2%
  • Reliance Naval & Engg down 5%
  • SBI trades flat with negative bias
  • NMDC continues to trade lower
  • Punjab National Bank dips over 1%
  • Hathway Cable & Datacom zooms 16%
  • Indiabulls Housing Finance dips over 5%
  • Monte Carlo Fashions trades higher on the BSE
  • Britannia Industries reverses losses; trades 4% higher
  • Lakshmi Vilas Bank tumbles as Indiabulls stocks fall
  • Coffee Day Enterprises continues to gain 5% for third-straight day

Metal stocks crack; index down over 1% -- SAIL, Coal India, National Aluminium Co, Tata Steel, Hindustan Copper hit a 52-week low

TOP GAINERS & LOSERS -  Yes Bank, Britannia, Dr. Reddy's, ITC, Sun Pharma and M&M are some of the gainers in the early trade on the Indices, while losers include LIC Housing, Indiabulls Housing, JSW Steel, Tata Steel, Hindalco, Vedanta, Axis Bank, IndusInd Bank, and ICICI Bank. Among sectors, except pharma and FMCG other indices are trading lower led by the metal, auto, energy, infra and IT.

L&T Rises After Winning Aramco Order - Shares of the infrastructure developer snapped its two-day fall and rose 1.3 percent to Rs 1,327.45 each. The company said a consortium including L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering bagged a ‘Large’ Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Installation order from Saudi Aramco, in an exchange filing. L&T classifies contracts worth Rs 2,500-5,000 crore as ‘Large’.

DLF Slumps Nearly 20% - Shares of the property developer plunged as much as 19.4 percent to Rs 138.30 each, its lowest price in over two years. The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the company based on a petition that highlighted how DLF had suppressed key information from shareholders, according to a Businessline report. 

Oberoi Realty falls nearly 5%: Shares of Oberoi Realty declined nearly 5 percent in the early trade on August 22 after the company gave confirmation about search operation by Income Tax authorities at company's premises.


MARKET NEWS | SHARE MARKET | TOP GAINERS | RUPEE | LIC | BANK NIFTY

Comments

  1. nice information thanks for sharing valuable content with us we also provide great information related to your blog feel free to visit our Mutual funds

    ReplyDelete
  2. nice information thanks for sharing valuable content with us we also provide great information related to your blog feel free to visit our NFO Details.

    ReplyDelete
  3. nice information thanks for sharing valuable content with us we also provide great information related to your blog feel free to visit our
    Sensex.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Stock Market News - Budget 2020 | Removal of exemptions in new tex regime to impact life insurers, MFs

A salaried professional opting for a lower rate of tax under the new regime will not be eligible for deductions, including insurance premium paid and ELSS investments. Removal of tax exemptions under Section 80C in the new tax regime could be a dampener for life insurance products as well as equity-linked savings schemes (ELSS) of mutual funds. In her Budget speech on February 1, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said a salaried professional opting for a lower tax rate under the new regime will not be eligible for deductions, including insurance premium paid and ELSS investments. “The removal of 80C benefit may pose a risk to new business volumes of life insurance companies,” said Kotak Institutional Equities in a report. Life insurance Tax exemptions are an important incentive for purchase of life insurance. To be eligible for exemption under Section 80C, the sum assured has to be 10 times the annual premium. This is part of the Rs 1.5 lakh limit under ...

Stock Market News - Yellow metal hits fresh record high as Iran attacks US forces

On the MCX, gold contracts for February were trading higher by Rs 562, or 1.38 percent, at Rs 41,225 per 10 gram at 0920 hours. It hit a record high of 42,278 per 10 gm. India Gold February futures hit a fresh record high on January 8 tracking gains in international spot prices which surged past $1,600 an ounce mark after Iran fired rockets at Iraqi airbase which hosts US forces that triggered risk-off sentiment. Spot prices hit their highest since March 2013 at $1,610.90 earlier in the session. US gold futures rose 2 percent to $1,605.80. “The jump in the price of what’s viewed by investors as a safer asset in times of political and economic uncertainty came after Iran’s missile attack on US-led forces in Iraq early on Wednesday,” said a Reuters report. “The attack came hours after the funeral of an Iranian commander whose killing in a US drone strike has raised fears of a wider conflict in the Middle-East,” it said. On the MCX, gold contracts for February were trading...

Stock Market News - FDC share price at 52-week high on GMP certificate from UK health regulator

The certificate came after a recent inspection of the company's facilities in Goa. FDC  share price touched a 52-week high of Rs 222, rising more than 5 percent in the morning trade on January 3 after the company received the good manufacturing practice (GMP) certificate from the UK's health regulator. The UK's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency also continued with its approved status for the company's two facilities in Verna, Goa. The GMP certificate was issued after a recent inspection of the two plants. At 1018 hours, FDC was quoting at Rs 218.00, up Rs 7.30, or 3.46 percent. The share price has risen 30 percent in the last three months. GNFC share price down 2% after DoT seeks Rs 15K cr in telecom dues DoT sent the company a demand notice for Rs 15,019 crore, taking to Rs 3.13 lakh crore the amount it has sought from non-telecom companies following a Supreme Court ruling. The share price of  Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertili...