F&O Ban List: Adani Enterprises, NALCO among 7 stocks under trade ban on Monday

Seven stocks, including Aarti Industries and Adani Enterprises, faced trading restrictions on Monday as their open interest exceeded market limits. Despite a previous day decline, Indian equity markets rebounded strongly on Friday, driven by gains in IT and banking sectors, with Reliance Industries playing a significant role.

Nifty bullish on charts, could aim at 24,500 : Analysts

Stocks such as L&T Technology Services, Bharti Airtel, HCL Tech, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, Ipca Labs, Divis Labs, DLF, and National Aluminium show bullish chart patterns, indicating potential upside moves, according to analysts.

India Inc’s interest cover weakens with slipping top & bottom lines

Indian companies faced a decline in interest coverage ratio to 4.8% in the September quarter. This was due to rising interest costs and slower growth in operating profit. Interest costs surged by 7.2% year-on-year, while revenue growth slowed down to 4.9%. Higher working capital requirements and increased borrowings further impacted the ratio.

Cuts in bearish foreign F&O bets set stage for 4-5% gains

Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) reduced their net bearish bets in index futures to 1.54 lakh contracts on Friday from 2.01 lakh the previous day. This resulted in foreigners’ long-to-short ratio – a measure of the number of their bullish positions versus bearish – in index futures rising from 23% at the start of the month […]

G-Sec yields harden as inflation stays high, rupee slides

September saw record lows after the US Federal Reserve delivered a hefty 50 basis point rate cut, causing a softening of US Treasury yields, along with milder domestic bond yields and a stronger rupee. During September US T-bill yields saw a low of 3.64%.

A post-poll party is on cards. Address: Dalal Street

“The markets were raring for an opportunity to move higher, and the Maharashtra election outcome is likely to be that trigger, but it is largely a sentimental flip,” said Rohit Srivastava, founder, indiacharts.com. “An oversold market feeds on itself and the short covering Friday was just the beginning.”

Stubborn inflation set to reinforce Fed’s go-slow approach

The personal consumption expenditures price index excluding food and energy – the Fed’s preferred measure of underlying inflation – is projected to have risen by 0.3% in October from September, and by 2.8% from a year earlier, in what would be the largest advance since April.