CLOSING INDICES

19 Aug BSE CLOSED @ 38614.79

86.47 Pnts & NSE CLOSED @ 11408405

23.05 Points, BankNifty Closed 22285.90

115.30 Points & India VIX Closed 19.9575

0.4725 Points.

Stocks In News

 Stocks in the news

Zee Entertainment Enterprises: Q1 profit at Rs 30.4 crore versus Rs 530.6 crore, revenue at Rs 1,312 crore versus Rs 2,008 crore YoY. Company appointed Subhash Chandra as Chairman Emeritus and R Gopalan as Chairman of the board.

Hindustan Aeronautics: Q1 profit at Rs 1,226 crore versus Rs 1,238.9 crore, revenue at Rs 10,239 crore versus Rs 10,159 crore YoY.

Agro Tech Foods: CRISIL reaffirmed long term credit rating to AA-, but revised outlook to stable from negative.

GTL Infrastructure: Q1 loss at Rs 208.41 crore versus loss Rs 206.99 crore, revenue at Rs 343.71 crore versus Rs 362.37 crore YoY.

Ajanta Pharma: Promoter Ravi Agrawal and Trustee Ravi Agrawal Trust has de-pledged additional 240,000 shares.

NIIT: Nippon Life India Trustee through various schemes of Nippon India Mutual Fund raised stake in company to 7.38 percent from 6.55 percent earlier.

FNO BAN STOCKS 19.08.2020

 Stock under F&O ban on NSE

19-Aug-20

1 ADANIENT

2 AUROPHARMA

3 BANKBARODA

4 BHEL

5 IBULHSGFIN

6 IDEA

7 JINDALSTEL

8 MANAPPURAM

9 SAIL

10 SUNTV

11 VEDL

12 ZEEL

Dividends & Results

 Today's Corporate Action 19 th Aug Ex Date

ADCINDIA Dividend - Rs. - 2.0000

BDH Final Dividend - Rs. - 2.5000

COCKERILL Final Dividend - Rs. - 5.0000

EVERESTIND Final Dividend - Rs. - 1.0000

GMM Final Dividend - Rs. - 2.0000

GTPL Final Dividend - Rs. - 3.0000

HERITGFOOD Dividend - Rs. - 2.5000

LUMAXTECH Final Dividend - Rs. - 1.0000

ORIENTPPR Dividend - Rs. - 0.5000

RITES Final Dividend - Rs. - 6.0000

SINCLAIR Final Dividend - Rs. - 0.8000

SUNPHARMA* Final Dividend - Rs. - 1.0000

UPL Dividend - Rs. - 6.0000

Today's Key Results 19-Aug-20

ANUPAM

APMFINVEST

ASHAPURMIN

ASIANTILES

BEARDSELL

BLUECHIPT

COSMOFILMS

CSBBANK

DHANFAB

EPSOMPRO

GKB

GLOBUSSPR

GMLM

IZMO

JIYAECO

KENNAMET

MONGIPA

MOONGIPASEC

MOUNT

MUTHOOTFIN

POLYLINK

POLYTEX

PURITY

RAJKOTINV

RAMKY

RUCHISOYA

SAMBANDAM

SHRAJOI

TAVERNIER

TIDEWATER

TIPSINDLTD

TRIVENIGQ

V2RETAIL

VFL

WWTECHHOL

Some Key Market Movements

 Minutes of the latest FOMC meeting are due Wednesday.

The EIA’s crude oil inventory report comes out Wednesday.

The Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee -- the panel that reviews the OPEC+ agreement -- is due to meet on Wednesday.

U.S. jobless claims for the week ended Aug. 15 are due Thursday.

China’s loan prime rate is due Thursday.

Euro-area PMIs will be released on Friday.

These are some of the main moves in markets:

Stocks

The S&P 500 rose 0.2% as of 4 p.m. New York time.

The Stoxx Europe 600 Index dipped 0.6%.

The MSCI Asia Pacific Index rose 0.5%.

Currencies

The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index declined 0.5%.

The euro increased 0.5% to $1.1934.

The Japanese yen appreciated 0.6% to 105.39 per dollar.

Bonds

The yield on 10-year Treasuries dipped two basis points to 0.66%.

Germany’s 10-year yield decreased one basis point to -0.46%.

Britain’s 10-year yield rose less than one basis point to 0.219%.

Commodities

The Bloomberg Commodity Index climbed 0.6%.

West Texas Intermediate crude decreased 0.7% to $42.58 a barrel.

Gold strengthened 0.8% to $2,001.59 an ounce.

World Indices

 Asia Pacific stocks set for lower start as S&P 500 touches record high

Stocks in Asia Pacific were set for a lower start as the S&P 500 stateside rose to a new record overnight.

Futures pointed to a lower open for Japanese stocks. The Nikkei futures contract in Chicago was at 23,050 while its counterpart in Osaka was at 23,040. That compared against the Nikkei 225′s last close at 23,051.08.

Shares in Australia were also poised to decline. The SPI futures contract was at 6,062.0, as compared to the S&P/ASX 200′s last close at 6,123.40.

On the economic data front, Japan’s trade data for July is expected to be released at around 7:50 a.m. HK/SIN on Wednesday.

Overnight on Wall Street, the S&P 500 erased its coronavirus losses as it rose to an all-time high. The broader market index advanced 0.2% to 3,389.78, a record close. It also touched an intraday all-time high, reaching 3,395.06 earlier in the trading day stateside. The Nasdaq Composite also hit a record, gaining 0.7% to finish its trading day at 11,210.84. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 66.84 points, or 0.2%, to close at 27,778.07.

Investors will also likely continue to monitor developments in Australia-China relations. On Tuesday, China’s Ministry of Commerce said it is launching an anti-dumping investigation into some wines imported from Australia.

“Australia-China relations continue to sour, this time over wine,” Tapas Strickland, director of economics at National Australia Bank, wrote in a note.

“The investigation is widely interpreted in Australia as being symptomatic with the deteriorating Australia-China bilateral relationship,” Strickland said, though he highlighted that “wine exports to China comprised just 0.7% of total trade with China in 2019.”

The U.S. dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of its peers, was at 92.271 after declining from levels above 92.5 earlier.

The Japanese yen traded at 105.34 per dollar after strengthening from above 105.6 against the greenback yesterday. The Australian dollar was at $0.7247, having risen from levels below $0.72 seen earlier this week.