Dalal Street bade adieu to Calendar 2018 on a flat note, as lack of fresh triggers and mixed global cues ensured that session remains uneventful.
The BSE Sensex closed 8.39 points, or 0.02 per cent, down at 36,068, while NSEs Nifty settled 2.65 points, or 0.02 per cent, higher at 10,862.As many as 27 stocks in Nifty50 closed in green with JSW Steel, Tata Steel, Vedanta, Tata Motors and Sun Pharma gaining up to 3.15 per cent.
Bharti Infratel, Bharti Airtel, HPCL, Hero MotoCorp and Axis Bank declined between 0.80 per cent and 1.57 per cent.Lets take you through key highlights of Monday's session: Asian Granito slips on MD arrestShares of Asian Granito India declined over 4 per cent after company's promoter and managing director Mukeshbhai Patel was arrested by Directorate of Revenue Intelligence on December 28 in a case related to an amount of Rs 3.5 crore.
The scrip closed 4.24 per cent down at Rs 178.50.
Patel was released on bail on Saturday, as per a BSE filing.Fresh default by ILFS TransportationsShares of ILFS Transportations slipped over 4 per cent after company said it had defaulted in interest payment on non-convertible debentures (NCDs) totalling Rs 3.98 crore.
The interest due was not paid due to insufficient funds, company said in a filing to BSE.
The scrip settled 4.81 per cent down at Rs 13.85.Spurt in OI Chennai Petro witnessed biggest spurt in open interest at 25.74 per cent on NSE, followed by, Exide Industries (23.53 per cent), MGL (22.81 per cent), Concor (19.11 per cent) and CESC (15.05 per cent).
Oil gas, auto stocks drag Sensex Selling in HDFC, Reliance Industries, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank and Maruti Suzuki pulled benchmark index to settle last day of year on a flat note with a negative bias.
Kotak Mahindra Bank, Infosys, IndusInd Bank, Sun Pharma and Tata Steel were top contributors to gains in 30-share pack.
BSE Metal index top sectoral gainer With a 1.43 per cent gain, BSE Metal index led sectoral gainers on BSE.
Nalco, SAIL, JSW Steel, JSPL, NMDC and Tata Steel all logged solid gains in that basket.
Bullish signals on 63 counters As many as 63 counters, including HCL Technologies, PVR, Trident and Phillips Carbon, showed bullish crossovers on momentum indicator moving average convergence divergence, or MACD, charts on BSE.
On other hand, 30 stocks including Tata Steel, BSL, Asian Paints, CESC and Mercator witnessed bearish crossovers.
Most traded stocks on NSE Reliance Communications (number of shares traded: 7.16 crore), HCC (6.21 crore), SAIL (2.10 crore), YES Bank (1.90 crore), DHFL (1.77 crore) and JP Associates (1.77 crore) were most traded stocks in volume terms while RIL (Rs 810.60 crore), Indiabulls Housing Finance (Rs 467 crore), Titan (Rs 489 crore), HDFC (Rs 451 crore), DHFL (Rs 440 crore) and Tata Steel (Rs 416 crore) were most active in value terms.
Stocks@fresh 52-week high/lowBata India, Commercial Engineers Body Builders, Nila Spaces, Proseed India, SPL Industries and Trejhara Solutions scaled fresh 52-week highs on NSE, while Bilpower, GTL Infra, Gitanjali Gems, Gemini, Byke, Khadim and Hindustan Composite hit fresh 52-week lows.