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22-Jul-2024
Joe Biden ends his reelection bid for US president -22 July 2024

President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House on Sunday, ending his bid for reelection following a disastrous debate with Donald Trump that raised doubts about his fitness for office just four months before the election. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term," Biden wrote in a letter posted to his X account.

Overview and Outlook

Global Stock Market Today

  • US equity markets settled lower in range 0.7% to 1%.
  • European equity markets also settled lowerin range 0.60% to 1%.
  • Majority of Asian equity markets are trading lower.
  • GIFT Nifty is down by 125 points, Nifty futures likely to open around 24400 levels (as on 8:20AM).

 

News highlights from across the globe

  • Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will table the Economic Survey 2023-2024 on Monday, just before the highly anticipated Union Budget 2024-25 is unveiled the following day.

 

Important news updates from the domestic front

  • Kotak Mahindra Bank standalone net profit rose 81% year-on-year to Rs 6,249 crore in April-June period. Net interest income, or core income, rose 9.7% year-on-year to Rs 6,843 crore. Besides, the lender’s Chief Executive Officer Ashok Vaswani said that the lender is seeing some signs of stress in the credit cards segment with delinquencies.
  • HDFC Bank Q1 net profit fall 2% quarter-on-quarter on lower core income growth and higher tax expenses. Besides, the lender’s board provided an in-principle approval to initiate the process of listing of HDB Financial Services Ltd. via an initial public offering.
  • YES Bank standalone net profit increased 46.4% year-on-year to Rs 502.4 crore for the quarter-ended June 30. .
  • Reliance Industries: Net profit for the quarter was down 17.9% at Rs 17,445 crore while the revenue was down 1.9% at Rs 2.31 lakh crore against the previous quarter.
  • Wipro: The IT major reported a 6.3% rise in net profit at Rs 3,037 crore, while its revenue was down 1% at Rs 21,964 crore against the previous quarter.
  • JSW Infra approved purchase of assets under construction at 30 MTPA slurry pipeline project in Odisha’s Nuagaon mines from JSW Utkal Steel for Rs 1,700 crore. It also entered into a 20-year agreement at a cost of Rs 1,324 crore per annum for transport of iron ore slurry from Nuagaon to Jagatsinghpur.
  • IndusInd Bank approved raising up to Rs 20,000 crore via debt securities on a private placement basis, and another Rs 10,000 crore via ADRs, GDRs or QIP.
  • IRCTC upgraded the company to ‘Schedule A’ central public sector enterprise from ‘Schedule B’.
  • Vodafone Idea approved third tranche allotment of shares worth Rs 614.5 crore to Nokia India and Ericsson India. The shares to be allotted at an issue price of Rs 14.80 per share.
  • Techno Electric & Engineering raised Rs 1,200 crore via QIP at a floor price of Rs 1,440 per share.

 

Nifty Overview & Outlook

Benchmark Nifty index settled lower at 24530 levels after a cut of 270 points from the previous closing values on the last working day of the week.

Broader markets underperformed the benchmark as Mid and Small cap indices fell over 2% each; resultant, weak market breadth.

All sectoral indices settled in red. Amongst them, Metal index was at the bottom of the tally, fell near 4% followed by Auto, Media, Realty and Oil & Gas index that fell 2 to 3% each.

Technically, 24200 will act as immediate support on the down side. Cross and sustenance below the said levels will be negative development. Going ahead, we expect markets to be volatile as Union Finance Minister Sitharaman will present the Union Budget in Parliament on July 23, 2024.

 

Derivatives Overview & Outlook

Last Friday, long unwinding was seen in Nifty, Banknifty and Finnifty futures with decrease in open interest by 2.8.%, 3.4% and 7% respectively. On the other hand, no meaningful activity was seen in Midcapnifty futures on open interest front.

Majority of sectoral indices settled lower. Amongst them, Banking, Cement ,Media, Oil &Gas, Pharma and Technology stocks witnessed long unwinding.

On options front, put writing along with call was seen at multiple strikes and maximum positions are at 24000 PE followed by 24500 PE while the maximum call positions are at 25500 CE followed by 25000 CE.

 

Institutional Trading Activity

Last week, FIIs bought stocks worth Rs 11558 Cr in the cash segment, bought stocks futures worth Rs 10120 Cr and also bought index futures worth Rs 1843 Cr. DIIs were net seller in the cash segment to the tune of Rs 4226 Cr during the week.

 

Nifty Futures, Banknifty Futures and Finnifty Key Levels

Nifty – Resistances 24600-24700; Supports 24400-24300

Banknifty – Resistances 52600-52800; Supports 52000-51800

Finnifty – Resistances 23700-23800; Supports 23500-23400

 

Security in Ban Today: BALRAMCHIN,BANDHANBANK, GMRINFRA, HAL, HINDCOPPER, INDIACEM, PEL, SAIL, VEDL.

 

Imporatnt Results Today: CIGNITITEC, COFORGE, IDBI, IOB, MAHLOG, SUZLON, UCOBANK, ZENSARTECH.

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