Sat: 07th Nov. Indian markets feel the pinch

After the failure of the Euro talks. Global markets tanked. Indian followed the suite. Indian markets corrected nearly 1.25%.

Most of the Global Markets corrected almost 5% on Tuesday after the Euro Zone agreement to rescue Greece and keep the sovereign Debt crisis from spreading was upended following the decision of the Greek Prime minister to go for a public ballot on the bailout package. Indian markets also lost over 1% on Tuesday. MF Global filled for bankruptcy this week and there were reports that Credit Suisse shedding another 3% of its workforce.

Technically Nifty seems to have found a big resistance at 5335 levels. Where the Fibonacci Retracement levels comes. If the take the high of 5944 and low of 4720, the 50% retracement levels comes to 5335 levels (marked in the chart).

Nifty and Sensex closed down 1.5%. Tata motor closed down 9%, Sterlite 7%, Icici Bank & Sail 5%, Mnm 6%. Tata Steel 3.5%, Coal India and DrReddy closed down 3% & 4%. The gainers list in the frontline stocks are little less. Hul gained 8%, Rpower & Rcom both climbed 4% each. Sesagoa & Bhel 2% each. SBI 3%. In the Essar Port gained 26%, All Bank 16%, Havells 15%, Pvp venture 35%, Kpr Mill 24%, Pvr cinemas 22%.

Once again Nifty is nearing its over bought position. Indian markets are now a days seems to follow the global trend. Nifty will find resistance at 5400 levels. As everyone knows that the nifty faces strong resistance at 5400 levels, so there is nothing much to say about the same. But we need to think about the sustainability above 5400 levels. In the short run the markets have surely come off but I still have a doubt about the market as the way I had in the past. As I have talked about the same in the previous articles also about the inflation, rising fuel price, falling real estate prices, government issues etc, etc. So keeping all those in mind I still don’t have faith in the India markets. It is still not the right time to invest in the markets.

US unemployment data at 9% as compared to 9%. Seems to be a good news for the International market. But there has been steep drop in Industrial order from 1.5% to 4.3%.

This weeks call

Buy BOI above 346. SL 341.

Sell Bpcl below 622 SL 625 tgt 614.

Sell Corp Bank SL 407.

Sat: 22nd Oct 2011

Markets big biggies have declared their result for quarter July-Sep 2011. Mukesh Ambani lead Reliance Ind reported on Sat a 15.80% yoy growth in net profit for the second quarter of financial year 2011.

Hdfc Ltd reported a 20% increase in Net profit for the quarter ended Sep 2011, aided by the strong growth rate. That means that the demand for home loans has been steady and has not been affected by rising interest rates of high property prices.

Tcs posted slightly lower than expected rise in quarterly net profit to 14.7%.
Better-than-expected results by IT bellwether Infosys (which posted a 11 per cent increase in net profit to touch Rs 1,906 crore in Q2 FY12), overshadowed disappointing IIP numbers and took the Indian benchmark indices surge last week.

China GDP growth eased slightly in the third quartet to its slowest pace since the second quarter of 2009. Gross domestic product rose 9.1 percent in the third quarter from a year ago, moderating from the second quarter's 9.5 percent. It was slightly below market forecasts for a 9.2 percent expansion. China's inflation, albeit easing, eased to 6.1 percent in September, close to near three-year highs of 6.5 percent in July and well over Beijing's 2011 target of 4 percent.

France is among euro-region sovereigns likely to be downgraded in a stressed economic scenario, according to Standard & Poor's. The sovereign ratings of Spain, Italy, Ireland and Portugal would also be reduced by another one or two levels in either of New York-based S&P's two stress scenarios, the ratings firm said in a report dated today. These assume low economic growth and a double-dip recession in the first set of circumstances, and add an interest-rate shock to the recession in the second.

Rupee falls to 50 against US dollar for the first time since May 2009.

Indices shrink nearly 1.75% in a week. Tcs tanked nearly 8%, Hcl tech 6%, Rel Infra 6.2%, Lnt, Hindalco & Sesagoa 6%. Cairn fell 14% and Jain irrigation 12%. On the other side Hdfc bk gained 3%, Maruti despite the strike gained 6%, Sbi 5%, Axis BK 3%, Coal India 2%. On back of the F1 circuit for the first time in India, JP Infra is being in the race. It gained almost 26% in a single week. Moser baer closed up 24%. Arshiya Intl gained 18% in the small cap and the mid cap group. Raymond was up 15%, Patni 14%, Kpit Cummins 11% & Hero Moto gained 3%.

Technically our markets are trading in a broad range. Nifty is trading in a broad range of 5200 and 4750 levels. If we look at a broader range than the Nifty is trading in a island pattern with the top of 5200 and low of 4750 levels. Either ways breakout will only decide the further path for the Nifty. In the weekly chart Nifty seems to be on the verge of breakout on the upside. MACD may give positive divergence within some days.

Markets have been very stock specific now a days. Arbitragers and Speculators gets on the stock which are newly listed or whose quarterly results a re out. There is not much to talk about the Indian markets as off now, as we are mostly following the international markets.

Sun: 09th Oct 2011

Italy’s rating was cut by Moody’s Investors service for the first time in almost two decades. Its been lowered from A2 to Aa2 with a negative outlook. They also said that all the European countries with ratings below the top mark AAA may face downgrades as many euro-area governments are facing “ a profound loss “ in investor confidence as policy makers have failed to stop debt-crisis contagion.

Moody’s also downgraded the SBI bank financial strength rating to D+ from C-. As a result of the lower BCA, the Hybrid debt rating was downgraded to Ba3(hyb) from Ba2(hyb). On Wednesday all the banks were the worst effected and so as the market.

Rupee dropped below 49 vs $ after data showed the current account deficit widened and concerns about the global economic outlook curbed demand for emerging market assets. Overseas investors trimmed their holdings of Indian equities by $626 million in the week.

Food Inflation index rose to 9.41% and the fuel price index climbed 14.69% in the year to Sep 24.

Markets continued with its volatility. With 4 trading session in a week. Indices closed down 1-1.5% with a sharp bounce back on the last day of the trading session. Sensex bounced back 440 points and Nifty 137 points.

Last week I had mentioned about the trendline, which on break will surely create panic in the markets. Nifty on Monday opened with a deep gap down. The panic selling continued for 3 continuous days. FII’s sold nearly Rs.3KCr in the Indian markets within these 3 days. Nifty once again made a low of 4728 and bounced back on the last trading session and closed at 4888. The last time the same scenario was seen when the Nifty made a low of 4720 on 26^th Aug 2011, and from there onwards Nifty once again changed its trend and recovered sharply to make a high of 5169 in just few session. The same situation is not promised this time. As this is the second time it has come to 4720 levels. Break below this will surely take the nifty to 4600 levels.

If the nifty make a double bottom and bounces back then rally should stop at 4911-4970 levels. As I have mentioned in my last article also that the Indian markets are bound to see high volatility. Last time we had discussed about the MACD which was suppose to give negative divergence. And that did happen this week.

FII’s continued selling. They sold stocks worth Rs.3500Cr from 30^th Sep to 05^th Sep. DII’s bought stocks worth Rs.1600cr.

Last weeks call

Sell Adani Ent close below 523 SL 531. Made a low of 447.

Buy Asian paint above 3170. SL 3154. Did not trigger the price

Sell Axisbank below 1030 SL 1039. Made a low of 945.

Sell Hero corp below 1940 SL 1946. Made a low of 1904.

Sell Hdil below 95 SL 97. made a low of 89.

Sell IDBI with SL of 103.75. Made a low of 94.45.

Call for the week

Buy Asian paint above 3170

Buy JP Ass above 75 Sl 72.50

Don’t worry we are not going anywhere.

With inflation so high, no stopping on banks increasing interest rates, unstoppable scams, instability in Indian governments, depreciating rupee, downgrades by most of the FII’s, how we can think the Indian markets are going to out perform the Global markets. We are not going to gain from this rally. Either I should say that we are not going to see any major uptrend from here. Year 2011 was one of the most highly volatile years; next year seems to be more volatile than ever.

US will take a lot of time to recover from recession, Europe sitting on the pile of debts, many countries have been declared bankrupt. In this scenario how can we expect the Indian markets to attract FII inflows? In the quarter ended Sep, Indian markets lost almost 12-15%.

For the week Indian equities closed down in red. Nifty and Sensex both closed down in the range of 1.5-2.0%. IT index lost 5.7% and metal 4.5%. In the gainers were Ranbaxy 9%, Dlf 11%, Infy 8%, JP Ass 19%, Educomp 17%, Jindal Saw 14%, Tata Motors 6.5%, Hcl 6%, Ambuja Cement 12.5%, Financial tech 11%. On the loosers side ADAG lead the pack. Relcap lost 22%, Relinfra 13%, Rcom10%. Ster closed down by 8%, Axis bank 7%, IFCI 19%, IRB 12%.Pantaloon was one of the major stock which lost heavily, it closed down 32%. Opto circuit and Jubilant lost 17% each. Abb and Lnt lost 7-6%.

Technically speaking we had one of the worst trading week this year. The markets were highly volatile. Last weeks close suggested that we might see some bounce back as a perfect Doji pattern was made. But the selling mode continued on the first day of the week also but the same have been absorbed on the very next day when the markets recovered. Every next day of opposite to the previous days close. Nifty found it difficult to close above its 20DMA. And finally on the last day of the trading week close below its 23.60% retracement levels. If nifty closes below the trendline then we may see another round of correction which may take the Nifty below 4800 levels also. MACD is almost on the verge of giving negative divergence. The three parallel indicates that if nifty pulls back then it has to trade in that range. Otherwise the fall could be seen in the Indian markets.

Call for the week

Sell Adani Ent close below 523 SL 531.

Buy Asian paint above 3170. SL 3154.

Sell Axisbank below 1030 SL 1039.

Sell Hero corp below 1940 SL 1946.

Sell Hdil below 95 SL 97.

Sell IDBI with SL of 103.75

Sep 25: All which goes up comes down

Indian Currency witnessed one of its sharpest and fastest depreciation in the recent times.

Rupee is trading near 50. Commodities are on the way finding support. All the commodities corrected in the range of 8-2% on the last day of the trading session. Silver tanked nearly 8% while Gold corrected 2%. This carnage is all because the appreciation in the Dollar. Dollar has been rising since quite a long against almost all the global currencies.

Indian equities market corrected more then 4% in a week. Last weeks rally was a false rally. Almost all the large cap stocks lost nearly 5 of their market capitalization. Nifty and Sensex lost 4.3% & 4.6% respectively. Small cap and Midcap Index shrinked by 2.5% in a week. Capital goods Index lost the most, closed below by 7.5%. Metal Index and the Oil & Gas Index too were hit severely, which tanked down nearly 6% each. Bankex and IT index closed down 3.7 & 2.5% each.

Amongst the Large cap stocks Lnt, Tata motor, Ster Ind lost more than 9%. Sesagoa, Rel Infra & Ril Ind lost in the range of 6% -7%. Tata Steel, Dlf closed down 5%. While JP Ass lost just 3%. In the Mid cap and Small Cap stocks like Pantaloon lost 12.5%, Jain Irrigation 11%, Godrej Ind 9%, Orchid Chem 8%, Crompton Greaves & Alok Ind lost 7%.

Gainers list are very less as compared to the losers. Reliance Power & Grasim gained 2%, ACC 3%. In the midcap and the small cap stocks Alfa Laval gained 12%, Marathon 77% in a single week, Zandu reality 22%, Sunteck reality 13%, KGN Ind 13% and Inox gained 15%.

In the last article I had mentioned that , if the Nifty falls below then it may correct to 4910 levels and that will be a Lower Top and Lower Bottom formation. We can clearly see that the Nifty made a Double Top at 5160 levels and corrected. Nifty closed down at 4868 down by 4% in a week. On Thursday Nifty closed down below its two parallel after taking support at its 38.2% retracement levels. Nifty on the last day of the trading week made a Doji pattern at the bottom but that don’t suggest that the correction is over. Since the last few weeks I have been informing the readers of the Informed News paper that the Markets are still looking bad and we could continue with the correction. On Thursday Nifty closed below its 20DMA. Nifty will find support at 4800 levels.

If the Nifty closes below 4800 levels, then we may see more carnage.

Calls for the week

Sell Bhel below 1680 SL 1695. Made a low of 1573

Sell Container Corp SL 895. Made a low of 873.

Buy Corporation bank above 456. Could not trigger the buy price.

Sell Hero corp below 2193. SL 2205. Made a low of 2021.

Buy Hdil above 111.50 SL 110. Made a high of 114.80

Buy Maruti above 1117 SL 1106. Made a high of 1162.

Sep 18th:

The Industrial production for the month of July was way below expectations at 3.3% growth y-o-y compared to a growth of 8.8% in the month of June. The July industrial data indicates that the tight monetary policy by the RBI has started impacting growth. This is the weakest growth recorded in the last 24 months. The Industrial Output for the period of April-July 2011 expanded by 5.8%. The Output was recorded at 7.8% for the fiscal year ending March'11 compared to 10.5% in the year 2009-10.

The Inflation figures for the month of August will be released on the 14th of September. Inflation has been around the double digits for the Indian Economy and which still indicates that RBI may hike the rates by 25 bps in the upcoming policy review.

The Rupee continued to slip down against the dollar, touching its 2 month low of 47.93 on Wednesday. Its good news for the IT and the Export companies but this could deepen the import of the Oil from the other countries. Depreciating Rupee can be biggest concerns for the real economy in the country’s rising oil import bill.

The crisis in the Euro zone has again flared up. This could definitely affect the rest of the world. Greece is close to default. Yield on 10-year Greece note rises to 24% as the country searches for funds to pay of its own Debts.

RBI raised the benchmark interest rates by Quarter of a percent point on Friday and kept Cash Reserve Ratio rate unchanged. The Repo Rate now stands at 8.25% while the reserve ratio gets adjusted to 7.25%. The CRR remains unchanged at 6%. The hike was in the line of the expectation. The rate has been hiked due to the growing demand for the food to the commodity sector. Inflation seems to be the talk of the town, so rate hike was expected. But looking at the IIP and GDP data more rate hike in the near future is not expected. We may be at the peak of the rate hike journey.

After sharp fall in the last week from 5163, we had a gap down opening in Nifty. Nifty made a low of 4911 on Monday. Since Tuesday again nifty inched back to make a high of 5143 on the last day of the week. Markets have been very volatile on back of RBI meet. Traders were very active on the banking stocks. Nifty have taken good support at its 23.6% retracement levels. If we take the Fibonacci levels from 5700 to 4720 levels. On the last day of the trading week nifty closed above its 38.2% levels. Nifty may again inch higher and try to close above the 5170 mark, if that is done then we might see nifty making new recent high and move within the two parallel lines. This could be higher bottom and higher top formation.

But if the Nifty corrects and fails to close above 5170 levels then we might see some more correction and Nifty may slip below 4910 levels. And then it could the lower bottom and lower top formation.

Calls for the week

Sell Asian Paint below 3130 SL 3145.

Sell Bhel below 1680 SL 1695.

Sell Container Corp SL 895.

Buy Corporation bank above 456.

Sell Hero corp below 2193. SL 2205.

Buy Hdil above 111.50 SL 110.

Buy Maruti above 1117 SL 1106.

Sep 3rd: 6% in just 3 days

This has been one of the shortest trading weeks in a year and that too with a gain of more than 6% in the Indices. Is this just a technical bounce back or end for the falling markets? Market men finding it really were hard to trade in the market are confused with, which way to trade in. Last week we saw markets collapsed more than 11% in a single week. But this recovered 3%.

Nifty after taking a good support at 4800 levels bounced back sharply to close above 5000 levels. Sensex closed few hundred points below 17000 levels. But the recovery again is too fast and can be short sighted. As discussed in the past also that there has been no major changes in the fundamentals of India, so these kind of fast recovery can be short lived only. This can be just proved as a bounce back from the carnage which happened last week. As the Nifty was trading below its over sold zone and the MACD buy signal on the second trading session helped the traders to take positive trades.

Finally DLF took a break from its long down trend and gained nearly 20% in a single week. Rcom after its likely clean cheat gained 18%. Jsw steel too recovered 19%. Rel Capital 18%. Tata steel 16%. Some of the other stocks which gained were Parasvanth and Chambal Fert 18 & 16 % respectively. T. motor 3%, Mnm, Cairn, Sun Pharma 10% each. Amongst the small and mid cap stocks were Accentia Tech 31%, Panaromic universal & Confidence Petro 27%.

Stocks which lost in the week are Ongc 5%, Ntpc 2%, Maruti 3%, Pnb 6%. In the Midcap and Small Cap Sks Micro finance lost 14%, Kgn Ind 12% and Simple Infra 10%. Pranetta closed down 42% while Bodal Chemical corrected 38%.

Technically speaking, If we looking at the Nifty chart 1, we can clearly see that the Nifty had taken support at its 161.8% retracement levels from the low of 5177 and high of 5944 after its long downtrend. Its 161.8% retracement levels come to 4703. Nifty since a long time was trading in its oversold zone. But this week the MACD have also given positive trigger and the markets did bounce back. But am still not comfortable with the markets.

Wednesday, Aug 24 - Morning brief for the stock market

Stocks To Watch: Hindalco, Cairn, Cipla, Lupin, Shriram EPC
Wednesday, Aug 24 - Morning brief for the stock market:
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BIG PICTURE
* PM writes to Anna Hazare; ready to table Jan Lokpal Bill on speaker OK
* Moody's Investors Service cuts Japan sovereign credit rtg to Aa3 (var)
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TOP EVENTS TODAY
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* Apr-Jun earnings to be detailed by: MphasiS, Thiru Arooran Sugars.
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* Annual General Meet of: Apar Industries, Asian Hotels (East), Bafna Pharmaceuticals, Can Fin Homes, Eclerx Services, Forbes & Co, India Cements
Capital, Loyal Textile Mills, Mawana Sugars, Ramsons Projects, Vintron Informatics.
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* Board Meetings of:
+ Venus Remedies to consider issue of fully convertible warrants to
promoters and allotment of equity shares on conversion of FCCBs.
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INDICATORS (previous session)
* NSE provisional net buy/(sale) in bln rupees, Aug 23: FII (1.00), DII 3.03
* Institutional net buy/(sale) in bln rupees, Aug 22: FIIs (7.66), MF 1.37
* FII NSE futures net buy/(sale) in bln rupee, Aug 23: index 4.88, shr 1.48
* Sensex 16498.47, up 156.77 points; Nifty 4948.90, up 50.10 points
* Crude: $85.44/bbl; Rupee: 45.63/$1; Gold: $1853.30/ounce; 10-yr yld: 8.2608%
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OUTLOOK
* Shares are seen opening slightly weak today as Asian indices erased early gains, but late recovery seen on short covering ahead of August futures expiry on Thursday.
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GLOBAL STOCK MARKETS
* US: US indices surged 3-4%, as weak economic data rekindled hopes that the Federal Reserve will take steps to stem deterioration in growth.
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* ASIA: Indices registered mild gains today on weak overseas cues. Sentiment was hurt by lower than estimated economic data released in the US Tuesday and
Moody's Investors Service downgrading Japan's sovereign debt rating. .
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IPO WATCH

* TD Power Systems has allotted over 1.3 mln shares to five anchor investors at 256 rupees each, the lower end of the price band of its 2.27-bln-rupee issue.
. Vaswani Industries has reached an agreement with Securities Exchange Board Of India to revive its IPO and plans to issue bonus shares. (ET)
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SECTOR NEWS

* AUTOMOBILE: Sonalika group in talks to acquire Italian tractor manufacturing firm to set up a base in Europe. (BS)
Audi India launches sport utility vehicle Q5 priced at 351.3 mln rupees, ex-showroom Mumbai. (FE)
* BANKING: RBI Deputy Governor Gokarn has said RBI is watching for signs of moderation in domestic demand.
Government not keen on state-owned companies securing bank licenses under the proposed new banking licences norms. (ET)
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* BUSINESS PROCESS OUTSOURCING: The outsourcing arm of Essar group, Aegis, aims to get listed on stock exchanges between FY12 and FY15. (FE)
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* CAPITAL GOODS: Volvo Construction Equipment plans to manufacture excavators of up to 30 tn capacity in India. (BS)
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* COMMODITIES: Jute industry under Competition Commission of India lens for alleged cartelisation. (BS)
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* ECONOMY: C. Rangarajan, chairman of the Economic Advisory Council, wants the Planning Commission to stop allocating funds to central ministries, says
it should be left to finance ministry. (ET)
India may reduces loans from the World Bank, as it is running risk of exceeding the borrowing limit from the global lender in the next three years.(BS)
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* FERTILISER: Chemicals and Fertiliser Minister, M.K. Alagiri, has opposed the plan to raise urea prices by 10% and decontrol fertiliser prices from the
next fiscal. (BL)
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* FMCG: Italian company Artsana SPA to manufacture toiletries and nursing products in India for its baby care brand Chicco. (ET)
Super-Max Personal Care plans to launch some of its products in India. (BL)
Indian biscuit makers such as Parle Products, BRITANNIA INDUSTRIES are looking at tie-ups in overseas markets to beat rising domestic competition.
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* GOVERNMENT: Centre has no immediate plan to allow foreign retail investors to directly purchase equities in Indian stock markets. (BL)
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* INFLATION: RBI expects headline inflation to slow down during Nov-Dec on base effect
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* INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: NASSCOM "sees no reason" to revisit industry growth target of 16-18% for 2011-12 (Apr-Mar).
Accenture is planning to acquire residential and commercial mortgage processing service provider Zenta. (FE).
* PHARMACEUITICAL: Japanese firm Takeda in talks to acquire CIPLA and LUPIN. (ET)
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* POWER: Power companies can avail of duty exemption on imports of power equipment before getting mega power project certificate. (BS)
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* STEEL: The Central Empowered Committee has suggested sale of more than 25 mln tn of iron ore inventory lying unused be sold in the Karnataka. (ET)
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STOCKS
* ALLAHABAD BANK: Has sought 10 bln rupees of capital infusion from the government in 2011-12 (Apr-Mar) to maintain a capital adequacy ratio of
12.5%.
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* ALLCARGO GLOBAL LOGISTICS: To foray into hospitality, real estate and ports sectors under its master brand 'Avashya'. (ET)
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* BANK OF BARODA: To review credit and deposit targets for 2011-12 (Apr-Mar) after October.
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* BL KASHYAP & SONS: Employees Provident Fund Appellate Tribunal has stayed an order against the company for alleged provident fund payment default.
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* BLUESTAR INFOTECH: Is planning to set up a 100-seat delivery centre in the US. (BL)
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* CAIRN INDIA: Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer Indrajit Banerjee has resigned.
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* COAL INDIA: Is planning to adopt turnkey model for development of 21 washeries for beneficiation of 165 mln tonnes of raw coal in the second phase.(BL)
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* CUPID: Has received a 14.89-mln-rupee order from health ministry. .

* ESCORTS: Company is scouting for new location for its second plant, rules out Maharashtra for locations citing that the state is way too expensive. (FE)
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* FEDERAL BANK: Has sought Reserve Bank of India's approval to open a banking unit in Dubai International Financial Centre by December end.
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* GTL INFRASTRUCTURE: In talks for debt restructuring worth 100 bln rupees, investors ask for cut of nearly 30% in debt level for acquiring stake. (ET)
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* HINDALCO INDUSTRIES: Delays financial closure of the 78 bln rupees Aditya Aluminium refinery project due to uncertain market conditions. (BS)
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* HINDUSTAN CONSTRUCTION CO: IT solutions subsidiary, Highbar Technologies tiesup with SAP to launch Highbar CloudConnect, will serve the small and medium enterprises in India. (FE)
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* HINDUSTAN PETROLEUM CORP: Has sought more land from Maharashtra government to set up a new refinery with with the capacity of 9-15 mln tn per annum. (BS)
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* INDIAN METALS & FERRO ALLOYS: plans to spend 66 bln rupees over five years to set up 1320 MW power plant in Odisha. (BS)
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* L&T FINANCE HOLDINGS: Finds inclusion in BSE 500 index replacing Nagarjuna Fertilisers and Chemicals. (
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* LGS GLOBAL: Has approved raising funds through equity and debt.

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* MAHANAGAR TELEPHONE NIGAM: Has raised 5 bln rupees from various banks to repay debts and meet operational expenses. (PTI)
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* OBEROI REALTY: Brings in Samsung C&T Corp on board for its high-rise luxury project at Worli in Mumbai. (DNA)
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* ORIENTAL BANK OF COMMERCE: May trim credit growth target for 2011-12 (Apr-Mar) to 18% from 19% set earlier.
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* PIRAMAL HEALTHCARE: Research firm IIAS says company's non-core investments in realty, financial services and telecom not in investor interest. (ET)
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* PUNJAB & SIND BANK: Has raised deposit rates by up to 100 bps.

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* RELIANCE CAPITAL: Unit Reliance Portfolio Management to raise over 15 bln rupees to invest in real estate projects. (ET)
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* RELIGARE ENTERPRISES: Promoter Singh brothers raise 14 bln rupees debt from Standard Chartered, the funds could be used for the growth plans of the
company. (BS)
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* RELIGARE TECHNOLOGIES: Has teamed up with BHARTI AIRTEL using FORTIS HEALTHCARE as its knowledge partner to offer 24x7 medical assistance on phone to mobile phone users.(BL)
* RENAISSANCE JEWELLERY: Has completed acquisition of Ajit Garments.

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* ROHIT FERRO-TECH: Has started production at its sixth furnace at Haldia from Monday.
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* SHIPPING CORP OF INDIA: Has taken delivery of one offshore vessel.

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* SHRIRAM EPC: Has received a 6.4-bln-rupee solar power plant order.

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* STATE BANK OF INDIA: Head says hopeful of rights share issue this year, no plans to launch fixed rate home loan scheme.
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* SUPREME INDUSTRIES: Has denied reports of stake sale by promoters.
Japan's Kaneka Corporation is eyeing a minority stake in the company. (BS)
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* TATA MOTORS: Has launched variant of hatchback vehicle 'Vista' with base price 388,000 rupees ex-Delhi.
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* TALWALKARS: High rentals leads company to cut FY12 gymnamsium addition plan to 35-40 from 65 estimated in April. (Mint)
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* TITAN INDUSTRIES: Plans to enter into silver watches and helmets. (FE)
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* UCO BANK: Is looking at selling a portfolio of non-performing assets to improve asset quality and reduce provision requirements.
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* UNION BANK OF INDIA: Expects the government to infuse 3.5 bln rupees capital in Oct-Dec.
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* UNITED BREWERIES: May lose market share as Andhra Pradesh government, from Sept 1, has decided to source beer based on consumer preferences against earlier policy of placing orders in line with national market share. (ET

21st Aug 2011:

Nifty for the time since 2008 dropped down below 4800 levels. Sensex in its intraday movement dropped down below 16000 for the first time since 2010. Gold made its new high. Reliance Ind lost its position in market cap since it gained above the position after peeping ONGC. Coal India after its recent listing peeped RIL ind in the market capitalization.

There’s always a day after the darkness. Finally the bears got control of the market and some how managed to touch the Nifty at 4800 levels. Nifty had its very good support at 5200 levels from where it had bounced back several times in the past, but the panic selling could not help the Bulls to control the market. Finally we are at 4800 levels. Now what……

After all the downgrade in the near past, India has been on the down ward journey at par with the global markets. Last week we saw markets collapsed nearly 2.5%. Continuing its trend index lost another 6 % in the current week.

All the index closed down in red. Bankex lost nearly 9%. CNX IT lost more that 8%. Auto 4.7%, Reality 9%. Power index lost 5.3%. Oil and Gas 3.7%. Mid cap index tanked 7% while small cap Index lost 9%. Banks were hit harder then any other stocks on the brousers. Tata Motors lost 16.5%. Relcapital and Rcom closed down 16.5% & 14% respectively . Idfc closed down 13%. Ivrcl was one of the major looser from the lost which closed down 28%, Jet lost 23%. Educomp after the raid in its offices collapsed 23%. In the Tyre sector Apollo Tyre closed down 20% on week on week basis. Renuka lost 17% while HOEC 18%. In the Banking sector ICICI Bank lost 12%. Hindalco 12%. In the midcap and small cap sector, Clarus Finance after its superb rally lost 58% in a single week. Den Networks tanked 39% while KSoil lost 36%.

There were some gainers also in the way. Hero Honda gained 7%. Jubilant Foods gained 19%,VIP Ind 10% and Kwality Dairy 7%. Rm Mohite after its loosing steak from 200 odd levels to 60 levels, bounced back to 135 levels which gained nearly 23% in a week.

Chart 1 is the chart for Nifty. In the chart we can clearly see that the Nifty nose dive below 5200 levels. It somehow managed to close above the 4800 levels. Sensex closed marginally above 16000 levels. On Friday there was a gap down opening in the Nifty and in the chart we have seen a Doji kind of a pattern in the charts. It’s not exactly a Doji Pattern, but the candle stick suggests that the Indices can bounce back from a current rally as the candle stick was made after a wide gap. That the bounce back could be for a short run only. I am not sure about the fall below this level. Its seems that the markets are going bad to worse. Chart suggests that there could be no stopping in the markets. Investors are still advised to stay away from the mkt.

14th Aug 2011: Mother of all support is now the big time resistance level.

Finally the Nifty closed below 5200 levels. After so many attempts by the Bears, finally they got success.

Once more of the Monday carnage. Investors were in mayhem whether to hold on to their positions of book losses into their long positions. Monday, stocks of Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan were bleeding red. Dalaal Street dropped down more those 500 points. Trading came to a halt for some time in Korea’s junior index, while Israel paid the price of a historical friendship when its sovereign bonds, guaranteed by the US, were downgraded by S&P. Next day was just the copy of the previous day.

Rupee drops to its 6 week low after RBI said that the downside risks to growth may have gone up following the US rating cut. S&P cautioned that it could lower the sovereign ratings of countries like India, Japan and Malaysia, which are still to recover from its economic meltdown of 2008. According to the S&P Fiscal capacities of Japan, India, Malaysia, Taiwan and New Zealand have shrunk relative to pre 2008 levels. S&P have already downgraded US debt rating from AAA to AA+. It takes a minimum of nine years for a country to regains its AAA rating.

S&P downgraded its rating on the US by a notch to AA+ with a negative outlook. The rating agency stated that they felt that the political system of the economy has become less stable and that budget cutting announced earlier will not be enough.

S&P in July had stated that $4 trillion in cuts over a decade will be required if US were to have its AAA rating. On August 2 the policy makers agreed to enforce $2.4 trillion in spending restriction over the next 10 years. US have $14 trillion of debt and even after the deal last week it is anticipated to add another $7 trillion over the decade. As per the S S&P analysis the US Debt to GDP ratio will rise to 74% by year end, 79% in 2019 & will hit 85% in 2021. Rating cut lead to fall in the crude prices also. Crude collapsed nearly 10% within just two trading sessions. Some analyst expects commodities to continue its down trend.

Food inflation accelerated to its highest in 3 months. Experts feel that the inflation rose to its highest levels in last 3 months due to the excess rain that cut down the transportation. But I really do not understand when without the monsoon also the inflation was at almost at is high and after the rains also it’s the same.

June’s Headlines IP growth of 8.8% was insignificantly above market expectation of 5.5%, this suggests the RBI may hike rates by another 25-50bps. Yoy IIP (Index of Industrial Production) growth accelerated to 8.8% in May 2011 from the 7.4% recorded a year earlier and an upward revised 5.9% in May 2011 (from 5.6% earlier). Looking at the sectoral components, mining IIP grew at 0.6% yoy, electricity IIP at 7.9% and manufacturing IIP at 10.0%.

Indices lost more than 2.5% in a week. Midcap and Small cap index lost 1.5-2.5%. IT index was the major looser. IT index lost 8.4%, Metals also lost 6%, and Reality Index too lost more than 4%. Auto Index was the only gainer in the lot which gained 2.7%.

M&M gained the most in the week +13%, Hero Honda 6%, Acc, Kotak, Maruti, Bajaj Auto gained in the range of 4-5%. After the fertilizer policy Chambal gained 12%. In the midcap lot Bombay Dyeing gained 6.1%, EID Parry 6.2%, Bata India 9.7%.

In the losers Sterlite Ind lost 12%, Tata Power and Reliance Power both lost more that 11%, Infosys lost 8.2 and TCS closed down 10.4%. Relcap lost 11.2% and T. Steel tanked nearly 11% while Tata motors post results lost 10%. Aban sinked 9.5%. In the mid caps, Apollo tyre lost 11.5%, Sterling Biotech closed down 12%. Alok Ind 9%, Strides 8.8%, Nav Bharat Venture 8.6%, Rolta 8.4%.

In the last week I had mentioned that Indian markets are looking heavy and we may see Nifty at 4800 levels after the close below 5200 levels for two consecutive days. Nifty closed at 5072.95, in the intra week trading session nifty made a low of 4946 and a high of 5200 levels. Nifty opened the week below its 5200 levels, which was suppose to be its strongest support. Nifty bounced back from its low and tried closing above 5200 levels but could not sustain and lost nearly 2.5% in a week. Chart 1.

I had mentioned about the break of the Inverted Head and shoulder pattern formation in the last week. This triggered the sell off in the Indian markets with the global meltdown due to US downgrade. But everything said and done the rally in the Indian markets did not suggest that the India markets were in a good position. Inflation and corruption still remains the major concern in the Indian markets. Nifty had closed down below its retracement levels.

From the chart 2. Downside the retracement level comes at 4986 which is 138.2% retracement levels from the high of 5745 and a low of 5195.90. Nifty closed above its 123.6% retracement levels.

This suggests that Indian markets are still not safe haven to invest. Investors are advised to stay away for some more time. In a hurry investors are tend to make mistake. Markets are not going to go anywhere. If the US problem deepens then when we might the same stocks at a much cheaper price.

Sat: 06th Aug 2011: THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME IT HAPPENEND…

BUT THE READERS OF INFORMED INVESTOR WERE ADVICED MANY TIMES IN THE PAST..

In the last article also I had mentioned about the FII’s flow driving up the Indian markets and that was the only reason the Indian markets have been surging from the 5200 levels to 5700 odd levels. And now the FII’s flow have turned negative, Indian markets are falling like a dead pin. It was mentioned earlier also that there is no change in the FUNDAMENTALS OF INDIA, still the markets are rising. So finally there had to be some end to it.

US' Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing index tested 50.9, and UK's Market Economics/The Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply's index touched 49.1. HSBC manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index for Brazil tumbled to 47.8 in July from 49.0 in June, and that for China fell to 49.3--its lowest since Mar 2009.

Weak manufacturing data from India and other major economies clearly shows that global growth is slowing down. And Reserve Bank of India's willingness to sacrifice growth to control inflation (in near term) will further weaken sentiment.

US may have managed to avid default, but the economy is moving from bad to worse despite the QE2. Markets are worried about various issues, including the weak US economy, European debt problems and the risk of increasing inflation in India. The debt battle arose when the Treasury dept said that if the govt debt ceiling of $14.29 trillion wasn’t raised by Tuesday, the US would not have enough money to pay its bills.

Gold Prices short up yet another new record high on Thursday after the European central bank President said that the bank would continue to buy bonds in response to a deepening euro zone debt crisis. Gold hit a record $1678 an also made a fresh records in Euro.

Global markets crashed on Friday, making it a once of the worst intra day correction in the recent times. Crude tanked to make its 5 month low. Indian markets too followed the same. On the start of the trading day on Friday Indices opened in red with almost 3% down.

Indian markets started the week on the negative bias. Indices corrected nearly 5% in a week. Last week Nifty had closed below its 50DMA and continued to slide down. In my last article I had mentioned about the Inverted Head and Shoulder pattern which broke and the market start its downward journey since then. On the last day of the trading session of this week markets opened in deep red. Nifty opened below 5200 levels but some how managed to close above the same.

Real Estate, banking and IT stocks fell down the most. ADAG once again closed deep in Red. Mining ban in Karnataka triggered panic selling in the Steel stocks.

I have been consistently talking about the importance of the 5200 levels. This was the 4^th time the Nifty have tested the same since June 2010. This week also the Nifty tested the strength of 5200 levels but some how managed to close above the same. Also in the past I had mentioned about the Fibonacci Levels also. On Thursday Nifty closed below its 23.6 retracement levels and on Friday touched its start point also. Further downside is possible if the Nifty closes below the 5200 levels for 2 consecutive days. Sensex close below 17400 is bad for the markets.

Technically, our markets have gone very weak now. Two consecutive closes below the 5200 levels can take the Nifty to 5050-4800 levels. Nifty will face resistance at 5350-5400 levels.

Past Performance of the calls on Nifty

This was nt the first time i have written about the FII's flow in the Indian market and about the importance of 5200

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Friday, Aug 5 - Morning brief for the stock market

Stocks To Watch: Coal India; GVK Power; Tata Chemicals, Realty cos

Friday, Aug 5 - Morning brief for the stock market:

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BIG PICTURE

* Dow Jones Industrial Average index, crude oil down 4%, Nasdaq falls 5% as the US stares at prospects of another recession. (var)

* RBI Subbarao says aim to bring down inflation to 5% in medium term

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TOP EVENTS TODAY

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* Nifty companies detailing Apr-Jun earnings:

+ Cipla (net profit seen 2.73 bln rupees, up 6% on year)

+ Ranbaxy Laboratories (net profit seen 1.91 bln rupees, down 41% on year)

* Apr-Jun earnings to be detailed by: Aarti Industries, Aban Offshore, Advani Hotels & Resorts (India), Bhagyanagar India, Bombay Burmah Trading Corp, Bosch, BPL, Burnpur Cement, Britannia Industries, Carborundum Universal, Cinemax India, Compuage Infocom, DCM, Dharani Sugars & Chemicals, Escorts, Gangotri Textiles, Garware Wall Ropes, Goldyne Technoserve, Great Eastern Shipping Co, HB Stockholdings, Hind Rectifiers, Hindustan Oil Exploration Co, Hindustan Organic Chemicals, Kayton Trade & Finance, IL&FS Transportation Networks.

* Annual General Meet of: Advani Hotels & Resorts (India), Automobile Corp, Banswara Syntex, Great Eastern Shipping Co, Indian Hotels Co, Mount Everest Mineral Water, Neuland Laboratories, Hind Rectifiers, JL Morison India, Madhusudan Securities, Sandesh, Tata Coffee, Technofab Engineering, Trent, Venky'S (India).

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INDICATORS (previous session)

* NSE provisional net buy/(sale) in bln rupees, Aug 4: FII (2.54), DII 3.16

* Institutional net buy/(sale) in bln rupees, Aug 3: FIIs (8.01), MF 0.234

* FII NSE futures net buy/(sale) in bln rupee, Aug 4: index (6.36), shr (1.58)

* Sensex 17693.18, down 247.37 points; Nifty 5331.80, down 73.00 points

* Crude: $86.63/bbl; Rupee: 44.54/$1; Gold: $1,656.2/ounce; 10-yr yld: 8.4021%

OUTLOOK

* Share indices may fall around 2% at open following the sharp sell-off in global equities, but most market participants do not expect indices to make a new 2011 low.

GLOBAL STOCK MARKETS

* US: Share indices plunged 4-5% on Thursday, slipping to two-year lows, as growing crisis in the US and Eurozone fuelled worries that the global economy may re-enter a recession.

* ASIA: Share indices may fall around 2%, following the sharp sell-off in global equities, but most market participants do not expect indices to make a new 2011 low.

IPO WATCH

* Duplex Industries has sought Securities and Exchange Board of India approval to raise up to 1.25 bln rupees through an initial public offering of shares.

SECTOR NEWS

* AVIATION: Air India is losing 6 bln rupees every month, according to the government.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved further equity infusion of 12 bln rupees in Air India.

* FERTILISER: Government has approved revival of five closed units of Fertilizers Corp of India and three units of Hindustan Fertilizer Corp.

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* FOOD PRODUCTS: Mother Dairy may raise milk prices by up to 2 rupees a ltr across segments in the later part of the year due to rise in costs.

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* INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Pune-based Druva Software to raise $10 mln from Nexus Venture. (ET)

Sequoia Capital invests additional $8 mln in Prizm Payment. (Mint)

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* INFRASTRUCTURE: Finance ministry decides to cut lock-in period for foreign portfolio investments in infrastructure bonds to 18 months from 36 months. (Mint)

India Infrastructure Finance Co sets guarantee limit at 6 bln rupees for a single entity and at 12 bln rupees for a group in proposed guarantee fund. (FC)

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* INSURANCE: Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority finalises asset- liability management, stress test norms for equities investment by insurance companies. (ET)

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* INVESTMENT BANKING: ICICI Securities in investment banking pact with Collins Stewart Hawkpoint. (Mint)

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* OIL: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee says the government is moving in the direction of decontrolling diesel prices.

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* POWER: Private equity fund Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts, promoters of Avantha Power to invest $120 mln in company. (ET)

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* REAL ESTATE: Bombay High Court upholds constitutional validity of service tax levy on renting of commercial property. (ToI)

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* TELECOM: Department of Telecom may award 2G spectrum in Delhi to Uninor, Tata Teleservices only after reviewing allotment process. (ET)

STOCKS

* ADANI ENTERPRISES: A bulk carrier carrying 60,000 tn coal for the company sinks off Mumbai coast. (Bloomberg)

* AXIS BANK: To raise $240 mln through sale of US commercial paper. (BS)

* CEAT: Defers plan to shift non-radial tyres plant from Mumbai's Bhandup factory. (FE)

* COAL INDIA: To revive Talcher unit of National Fertiliser in a consortium with RASHTRIYA CHEMICALS AND FERTILISERS and GAIL INDIA. (

* COROMANDEL INTERNATIIONAL: Along with TATA CHEMICALS, ZUARI INDUSTRIES, Indian Farmers' Fertiliser Co-op and Indian Potash Ltd to import muriate of potash at $470 per tn until Dec and $530 per tn during Jan-Mar. (BL)

* ENGINEERS INDIA: To revive Ramagundam unit of Fertilizers Corp on a consortium with National Fertiliser.

* FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGIES: NSE removes company's trading software product ODIN from watch list, to permit it to launch new products.

* GITANJALI GEMS: Will convert foreign currency convertible bonds worth $3 mln at 220 rupees per share.

* GRASIM: Could see borrowing costs rise to 9-10% from current 6% as company gears to raise 25 bln rupees from the markets. (ET)

* GTL: Persuades Syndicate Bank not to invoke pledge on promoter's shares offered as collateral, in talks to restructure debt. (Bloomberg)

* GVK POWER: Along with partner BHP Billiton to part sell stake in Indian oil and gas blocks to a another company. (Mint)

* IG PETROCHEMICALS: Plans to invest 2.25 bln rupees in a new unit.

* INDIAN HOTELS CO: Reported a 509.91% on year jump in Apr-Jun net profit at 203.1 mln rupees while sales rose 12% to 3.69 bln rupees.

* MICRO TECHNOLOGIES INDIA: Has set up a manufacturing unit in Himachal Pradesh to meet growing demand for information technology security devices.

* MMTC: Company's gold imports in July were down 58% on year to 10.75 tn, while silver imports during the month slumped 79% on year to 25.5 tn.

* MUKAND: Production at its steel facility at Hospet in Karnataka has been affected by the ban on iron ore mining in the region. (

* MYSORE PETRO CHEMICALS: Has restarted operations at its Raichur plant, which was closed since Jun 21.

* OBEROI REALTY: Drops plans to develop hotel property in Goa. (Mint)

* RELIANCE INDUSTRIES: Government has said the company produced 31% less oil and gas than projected from its blocks in Krishna-Godavari basin in Apr-Jun.

* RESURGERE MINES AND MINERALS INDIA: Will enter into pacts with the governments of Maharashtra and Nagaland for iron ore and coal mining, respectively.

* STATE BANK OF MYSORE: Has hiked its Base Rate and Benchmark Prime Lending Rate by 50 basis points each to 15.00%, respectively.

* STEEL AUTHORITY OF INDIA: May raise 5 bln rupees via 10-year, 15-year bonds next week.

SAIL to revive Sindri unit of Fertilizers Corp along with National Fertiliser Ltd.

* TATA STEEL: Will invest 7 mln pounds sterling in its Hartlepool plant in UK to expand welding and material handling operations.

* UFLEX: Posted 59% on-year growth in consolidated net profit at 960.9 mln rupees and 64% on-year jump in net sales at 11.25 bln rupees for Apr-Jun.