China stocks rebound as dismal data fuels stimulus hopes
China shares rose more than 3 per cent on Monday after last week's steep losses, as bleak economic data fuelled hopes Beijing would roll out more measures to support the world's second-largest economy, while a decline in new coronavirus cases also helped sentiment.

Infrastructure and real estate stocks led the bounce-back, with Shanghai shares up

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More than half of BSE 500 stocks now below key 200-DMAs

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RIL pumps in Rs 500 crore equity into Alok Inds for 37.7%stake
Alok Industries (AIL) has informed the stock exchanges that Reliance Industries (RIL), which in consortium with JM Financial Asset Reconstruction Company had won the right to buy it through insolvency process, has infused Rs 500 crore into its equity.

In a communication to the stock exchanges on Friday, the bankrupt textile company said RIL was

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European shares stabilise after worst week since 2008
European shares steadied on Monday after their worst weekly showing since the 2008 financial crisis, on rising hopes that major central banks will step in to counter the impact of the coronavirus epidemic on global growth.

The pan-European STOXX 600 index rose 1.8 per cent by 0818 GMT, after a 12 per cent slump last week, with miners and oil -

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Mumbai: Lenders to Alok Industries expect to recover Rs 5,050 crore from the sale of the bankrupt company to Reliance Industries (RIL) early next week after India’s most valued conglomerate infused the promised Rs 500-crore equity into the debt-laden borrower. State Bank of India, ICICI Bank and IndusInd Bank are funding the rest of the Rs

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BSE to shift expiry of weekly derivatives contracts to Monday

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Ice Make board approves migration to NSE mainboard
NEW DELHI: Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) stock Ice Make Refrigeration will migrate to mainboard platform from NSE’s Emerge, following the approval from the company board of directors.

“The board has also appointed the scrutiniser for conducting the postal ballot and e-voting process in a fair and transparent manner,” the company said.

On

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A-grader Avenue moved to ‘T& segment to cool down punters
Mumbai: Avenue Supermarts, owner of retail grocery chain DMart — one of the hottest stocks in recent times — was quietly nudged Friday evening into an infamous grouping of stocks in which trading is restricted after Mumbai equities posted their biggest single-day fall in nearly five years.

Avenue was unexpectedly moved into the Trade-to-Trade or

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By Steve Matthews

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said he would back interest-rate reductions if the coronavirus develops into a global pandemic, but made clear he viewed that judgment to be premature.

“Further policy rate cuts are a possibility if a global pandemic actually develops with health effects approaching the s

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As SIP flow keeps powder dry, MFs lap up stocks in every FII selloff
Mumbai: While foreign institutional investors (FIIs) are on a selling spree in Indian equity market as fears over a likely coronavirus pandemic has taken risk off the table, domestic investors have been busy lapping up value bets. A steady flow of SIP (systematic investment plan) money has kept them flush with funds to continue their shopping

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Analyst Calls: Ajanta Pharma, IRB Infra, Marico, Mahindra CIE
Good morning!

The domestic stock market on Monday showed early signs of a possible breakout from its consolidation range. And Nifty futures on Singapore traded 80 points higher this morning, signalling a good start for Dalal Street.

As you head for the day’s trade, here is a compilation of overnight analyst calls on various stocks.

• Motilal Oswal

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Bharti Airtel deposits additional Rs 8,004 crore towards AGR dues
NEW DELHI: Telecom major Bharti Airtel said on Saturday it paid Rs 8,004 crore towards adjusted gross revenue dues to the Department of Telecom (DoT).

Earlier this month, the company had deposited Rs 10,000 crore as part of its AGR dues to the government. With the latest payment, it has paid a total of Rs 18,004 crore.

The company said after its

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Mumbai: Sumant Kathpalia’s elevation as the CEO of IndusInd Bank comes at a critical juncture for the bank. From an investor’s point of view the bank’s stock is at its lowest value in three years as concerns over its asset quality particularly its corporate loan book weigh, coupled with a weak macroeconomic environment, which has made business diff

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AirAsia India Oct-Dec loss narrows to Rs 123.35 crore
Mumbai: Budget carrier AirAsia India narrowed its loss to Rs 123.35 crore in three months to December from Rs 166.15 crore in Q4FY18 owing to higher fuel and staff costs coupled with increased user charges and other related expenses, as per a company presentation.

The Bengaluru-based airline, which is a joint venture between Tata Sons and Malaysian

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By Tom Metcalf, Jack Witzig and Tom Maloney

Last week was an expensive one for most investors, even for billionaires.

The combined fortunes of the world’s 500 richest people fell by $444 billion as the coronavirus continued to spread -- and spread fear -- rattling equity markets worldwide. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled more than 12 per

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The first tenet of technical analysis is that prices move in trends. And the trend continues in a simple manner when we look at the relative highs and lows of asset prices. The natural flow of the market is to keep moving in the direction of trend until some reversal signals appear.

However, there are some patterns that help us understand whether

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By Marcus AshworthGlobal markets have entered the meltdown stage, accelerating in the past few days beyond a relatively orderly stock-market correction. With coronavirus cases now on all continents this is no longer a domestic China problem; that suddenly dawned on complacent investors after last weekend’s big outbreak in Italy.

Hence the stampede

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NEW YORK: Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders may be surging in the polls ahead of Super Tuesday, but some on Wall Street have made their own conclusions on what November will bring: four more years of President Donald Trump.

Ninety-five percent of participants in a Deutsche Bank survey of investors, economists and other market participants released

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Asian markets extend falls as coronavirus spreads
SINGAPORE: The rout in world stocks deepened on Monday, with investors rattled by weekend data from China that showed its fastest ever contraction in factory activity, raising fears of a global recession from the coronavirus.

Pandemic fears pushed markets off a precipice last week, wiping more than $5 trillion from global share value as stocks

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Coronavirus tests limits of US Fed's firepower
Federal Reserve officials and their global counterparts are staring down an economic threat unlike any they have ever faced, as markets look to them to contain the fallout from a rapidly spreading virus with limited ammunition and tools ill-suited to deal with broken supply chains and quarantined consumers.

No playbook exists for dealing with the

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Premji, Nadar lose nearly $1.5 billion each as markets crash
Bengaluru: The stock market crash this week has weighed heavily on some of the biggest names in the IT sector, reducing the net worth of their holdings drastically in certain cases.

Since last Thursday, $3.2 billion has been wiped off from the promoters’ holdings of companies such as HCL, Wipro and Infosys. If this were to include TCS, which is

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The panic that gripped the stock market last week, as Covid-19 spreads across the world, is expected to spill over to Monday. With the US Federal Reserve’s efforts to pacify investors on Friday failing to stop the Dow Jones from plunging 1.4 per cent, analysts expect the market to slide further. The Nifty could drop by as much as 5 per cent from

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The flaw in Warren Buffett's estate plan
Warren Buffett’s annual letter to shareholders is always parsed for investing wisdom from the Oracle of Omaha.

And for good reason: His success at investing is well known. He points out in this year’s letter, which was released last weekend, that Berkshire Hathaway has gained 2,744,062% since 1965, compared with a mere 19,784% gain for the S-P

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By Aline Oyamada

The flight from riskier assets in emerging markets threw up a procession of grim reminders, from the financial crash of 2008 to the taper tantrum of 2013.

The spread of the coronavirus outside of China threatened to stall global supply lines and slash economic growth, sending markets into a tailspin from India to Brazil.

The week

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Reliance Capital debenture holders& trustee moves HC to protect investments
Mumbai: The trustee of the debenture holders of Reliance Capital has approached the Bombay High Court to protect its investment in Reliance Capital, which holds shares of its subsidiary Reliance General Insurance Company (RGIC).

The trustee is seeking the court’s intervention to restrain Nippon India Mutual Fund, Nippon Life India Asset Management

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The week gone by saw one of the worst selloffs of the decade on Dalal Street, when global markets reacted with absolute panic caused by the rapid spread of the coronavirus. Financial markets went into a tailspin as the world grappled with the possibility of the coronavirus becoming a pandemic in the coming days.

Triggering an across-the-board

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The domestic equity market experienced a massive decline during the week gone by in line with its global peers. Panic guided the bourses and the entire world was blaming the coronavirus for the erosion of wealth.

But when one looks back in time, several instances point to an entirely different scenario. A century ago in 1918, an epidemic of a

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MUMBAI: The dislike for standardised tests isn’t restricted to high school students alone. Independent company directors, many of whom are sterling achievers in their respective professions, seem to have developed cold feet about attending formal classroom sessions and clearing qualifying exams to continue in their roles.

About 170 independent

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The S-P 500 Index may have witnessed its quickest correction ever, but one of the biggest stock-market victims of the coronavirus epidemic has been Southeast Asia.

The tumble this week has pushed equity benchmarks of Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines to rank among the world’s 10 worst-performing major markets this year. Panic selling has

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The Indian stock market plunged sharply on Friday with the Sensex declining 3.64 per cent, its biggest single-day fall since August 24, 2015, on fears that coronavirus outbreak may trigger recession across major economies. Indian benchmark fell 7 per cent in the week. However, about 30 stocks from the BSE500 index have managed to buck the trend.

St

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