Market Live Updates Today: Trends on SGX Nifty indicate a gap-up opening for the index in India with a 155 points gain.
Market Live Updates
On December 20, the BSE Sensex plunged 1,190 points, or 2.09 percent, to 55,822, while the Nifty50 declined 371 points, or 2.18 percent, to 16,614 and formed a bearish candle on the daily charts. However, the market saw a bit of recovery in the last couple of hours of trade.
According to pivot charts, the key support levels for the Nifty are placed at 16,402.9, followed by 16,191.6. If the index moves up, the key resistance levels to watch out for are 16,832.8 and 17,051.4.
US Markets
U.S. stocks ended trading on Monday down by more than 1%, pressured lower by surging Omicron coronavirus cases and a possible fatal blow to a $1.75 trillion U.S. domestic spending bill, with oil prices plunging.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 1.23% lower at 34,932.16, while the S&P 500 ended the day down 1.14% at 4,568.02. The Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.24% to 14,980.94.
Asian Markets
Asian indices are trading higher on Tuesday, with Nikkei gained nearly 2 percent, while Straits Times, Hang Seng up 0.5 percent each.
Live Updates
- 21 Dec 2021 6:55 AM GMT
MapmyIndia lists with 53% premium
CE Info Systems, popularly known for its brand MapmyIndia, made a strong debut on the bourses on December 21 despite volatility in the equity market, listing with a premium of 53 percent.
- 21 Dec 2021 6:52 AM GMT
CMS Info Systems IPO subscribed 10% on day 1
The initial public offering of CMS Info Systems has been subscribed 10 percent, so far, on the first day of bidding. It has received bids for 38.76 equity shares, against the IPO size of 3.75 crore equity shares.
Retail investors have put in bids for 21 percent of shares reserved for them. Non-institutional investors and qualified institutional investors are yet to put in bids for the offer.
- 21 Dec 2021 6:51 AM GMT
Data Patterns IPO share allotment today
After receiving a strong response for its initial public offering on December 13-15, Data Patterns India will finalise the basis of its share allotment today.
- 21 Dec 2021 3:28 AM GMT
FII and DII data
Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) net sold shares worth Rs 3,565.36 crore, while domestic institutional investors (DIIs) net bought shares worth Rs 2,764.02 crore in the Indian equity market on December 20, as per provisional data available on the NSE.
- 21 Dec 2021 3:28 AM GMT
Oil prices edge higher
Oil prices edged higher on Tuesday, though investors remained worried about the rapid spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant globally, prompting countries to consider more restrictions potentially denting fuel demand.
Brent crude futures increased by 9 cents, or 0.1%, to $71.61 a barrel by 0105 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures rose by 23 cents, or 0.3%, to $68.84 a barrel.
- 21 Dec 2021 3:27 AM GMT
Dollar on back foot as Treasury yields soften
The dollar hovered below recent highs on Tuesday having lost ground overnight after a blow to Democratic spending plans in Washington, but worries about the Omicron coronavirus variant kept risk currencies in check.
The dollar index , which measures the currency against six major peers, was last at 96.513, having lost ground on both the euro and the yen .
- 21 Dec 2021 3:27 AM GMT
CCI approves acquisition of shareholding in Air India by Tata Group
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on December 20 approved the acquisition of shareholding in national carrier Air India by Talace, an entity affiliated to salt-to-software conglomerate Tata Group.
Talace, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Sons, has also been allowed by the anti-trust regulator to acquire shares in Air India Express and Air India SATS Airport Services, the CCI tweeted.
With Joe Biden spending plan blocked, economists lower 2022 growth forecasts
Some economists expect the U.S. economy to grow more slowly next year after a key Democratic lawmaker dealt a seemingly fatal blow to President Joe Biden’s $1.75 trillion spending plan, further clouding an outlook that was facing heightened risk from the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
Goldman Sachs lowered its GDP growth forecast for 2022 as did Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody’s Analytics, after U.S. Senator Joe Manchin said on Sunday he could not support Biden’s ambitious ”Build Back Better” proposal, which would expand the social safety net and tackle climate change.
- 21 Dec 2021 3:26 AM GMT
MapmyIndia to debut today
CE Info Systems, widely known as MapmyIndia, will make its debut on the bourses on December 21. Experts largely feel the listing premium could be in the range of 50-80 percent over the issue price, though there could be some impact of current market volatility.
The expected listing premium is largely attributed to the company's healthy financials with no debt burden, and stellar subscription to its initial public offering (IPO).
MapmyIndia, which offers proprietary digital maps as a service (MaaS), software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS), received tremendous response from investors as the offer was subscribed 154.71 times during December 9-13 with support from all kind of investors.
Non-institutional investors bought shares 424.69 times the portion set aside for them, the qualified institutional buyers’ portion was booked 196.36 times, while the reserved portion for retail investors was subscribed 15.20 times.
