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Indian benchmark indices opened lower today(27th December 2021) amid weak sentiment. The BSE Sensex was trading nearly 500 points down to quote at 56,618 level while the Nifty50 was at 16,891, down 158 points. In the broader markets, the BSE MidCap and SmallCap indices were also in the red zone, trading 1 percent lower. Among individual stocks that comprise the Sensex, IndusInd Bank, Bajaj Finance, Bajaj Finserv, Asian Paints, Maruti Suzuki, and Axis Bank were among the top losers that slipped 0.7 percent to 4.6 percent. RBL Bank lost 15 percent to Rs 146 levels after the bank said over the weekend that Vishwavir Ahuja, its managing director, and chief executive officer, had gone on leave after the Reserve Bank of India appointed Yogesh K Dayal as an additional director of the bank. Action for RBL is important in light of the problems encountered by private lenders like YES Bank and Lakshmi Vilas Bank last year. Read more

The Indian benchmark indices extended yesterday's decline today(29th Oct.2021) as well with the frontline S&P BSE Sensex sliding 743 points at 59,241 levels, while the Nifty50 at 17,676-mark, down 180 points. Only 2 constituents, Tata Steel and Asian Paints were trading in the green on the Sensex, while Bajaj Finserv, NTPC, IndusInd Bank, and L&T fewere leading the list of losers. In the broader markets, the BSE MidCap and SmallCap declined 1.5 percent and 1.8 percent, respectively. Dalal Street is witnessing an across-the-board sell-off with banks being the worst lot. The Nifty PSU Bank index is down 2.6 percent while the Nifty Bank index is trading over 2 percent lower. All other key sectoral indices were down up to 1 percent. Read more

The 65 percent decline in Maruti Suzuki Q2 profit could not drag the auto stock any further. Instead, the stock rose 0.40 percent, on a bad day for the market, to close at Rs 7,325.20 on the BSE. The company said adverse commodity prices and lower sales volume due to electronic component shortages impacted its performance in the September quarter. What might have lifted sentiment is the fact that the company had more than 2,00,000 pending customer orders at the end of the quarter. Analyst views are awaited though. Asian Paints climbed 4.43 percent to Rs 3,094.40 after a couple of brokerages said their interactions with dealers suggest the paintmaker plans to execute another 15-45 percent price increase, effective November 12. This is in addition to the recent 7.5 percent price increases, they said. Read more

Shares of Asian Paint were down 7 percent, hitting an over two-month low of Rs 2,961 on the BSE in Thursday’s intra-day trade, after the company, reported a 29 percent fall in the net profit to Rs 605.2 crore in Q2FY22 as against Rs 852 crore in the same quarter a year ago, while its revenue jumped by 32.6 percent to Rs 7096 crore in the July-September quarter of FY22 versus Rs 5350 crore during the same quarter in FY21. The company’s bottom line performance missed expectations of all eight brokerages polled by ETMarkets.com.The company’s board also approved an interim dividend of Rs 3.65 per share at its meeting held earlier today. The decline in the company’s bottom line was largely due to a sharp spike in expenses during the quarter. Asian Paints’ total expenses jumped 49 percent on-year to Rs 6,418.2 crore led by a 73 percent rise in the cost of raw materials. Read more

Shares of Asian Paints rallied by 7 percent at Rs 3,178, hitting a fresh record high on the BSE in the intra-day trade on Tuesday, after the company's net profit more than doubled to Rs 574.3 crore against Rs 219.6 crore year-on-year. The Company's consolidated profit after tax (PAT) was Rs 574 crore for the quarter ended June 2021 (Q1FY21) on the back of a strong operational income. The company had posted a PAT of Rs 218.45 crore in the previous corresponding period (Q1FY20). However, the profit figure was below market expectations as a CNBC-TV18 poll of analysts had expected profit at Rs 721 crore for the quarter. Revenue jumped 91.1 percent YoY to Rs 5,585.4 crore for the said quarter against Rs 2,922.7 crore in Q1FY21.“The domestic decorative business more than doubled its volume and delivered stellar revenues over the lower base of last year, which had suffered from the first nationwide lockdown,” said Amit Syngle, managing director and chief executive officer at Asian Paints. Read more