Market is seen opening higher tracking positive leads from Asian markets and overnight gains on the Wall Street. Trading of Nifty 50 index futures on the Singapore stock exchange indicates that the Nifty could rise 38.50 points at the opening bell.
Overseas, Asian shares were trading higher. US stocks closed higher on Tuesday, with the Nasdaq ending at a record as quarterly results kept equities drifting near all-time highs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.12%, the S&P 500 rose about 0.09% and the Nasdaq Composite Index advanced 0.43%.
The US Federal Reserve concludes a two-day policy meeting today, 1 November 2017, at which it is expected to leave interest rates unchanged. Most market participants expect the US central bank to resume hiking rates in December 2017.
Closer home, foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) sold shares worth a net Rs 531.82 crore yesterday, 31 October 2017, as per provisional data released by the stock exchanges. Domestic institutional investors (DIIs) bought shares worth a net Rs 596.92 crore yesterday, 31 October 2017, as per provisional data.
Among corporate news, Hero MotoCorp and Tech Mahindra are scheduled to release quarterly results today, 1 November 2017.
Bharti Airtel's consolidated net profit fell 77% to Rs 343 crore on 10% decline in total revenue to Rs 21777 crore on an underlying basis in Q2 September 2017 over Q2 September 2016. The result was announced after market hours yesterday, 31 October 2017.
Shares of automobile companies will be in focus as these companies announce monthly sales numbers for October 2017 starting today, 1 November 2017.
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Tata Power Company announced the commissioning of a 30 megawatts (MW) solar power plant in Palaswade village of Satara district, Maharashtra, developed by its wholly owned subsidiary, Tata Power Renewable Energy (TPREL). The plant will produce over 6.2 crore units of solar power, covering the annual energy needs of over 14,000 Indian households. The announcement was made after market hours yesterday, 31 October 2017.
Key benchmark indices settled with small losses yesterday, 31 October 2017, as investors took some cash off the table after indices scaled record highs in the previous trading session. The barometer index, the S&P BSE Sensex, fell 53.03 points or 0.16% to settle at 33,213.13. The Nifty 50 index skidded 28.35 points or 0.27% to settle at 10,335.30. The Sensex snapped six-day winning streak.
On the macro front, the eight core infrastructure sector, carrying 40.27% of the weight of items included in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), has shown healthy 5.2% increase in its output in September 2017 over September 2016. Its cumulative growth was 3.3% in April-September 2017. The data was disclosed after market hours yesterday, 31 October 2017.
The World Bank, after market hours yesterday, 31 October 2017, released the Doing Business (DB) Report, 2018. India ranks 100 among 190 countries assessed by the Doing Business Team. India has leapt 30 ranks over its rank of 130 in the Doing Business Report 2017.
The World Bank report recognized India as one of the top 10 improvers in this year's assessment, having implemented reforms in 8 out of 10 Doing Business indicators. India is the only large country this year to have achieved such a significant shift. On the "distance to frontier metric," one of the key indicators in the survey, India's score went from 56.05 in Doing Business 2017 to 60.76 in Doing Business 2018. This means last year India improved its business regulations in absolute terms - indicating that the country is continuing its steady shift towards best practice in business regulation.
The report noted that India has adopted 37 reforms since 2003. Nearly half of these reforms have been implemented in the last four years. The report captured reforms implemented in 190 countries in the period 2 June 2016 to 1 June 2017.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi hailed India's historic jump of 30 ranks in the World Bank's Doing Business Report, 2018 released yesterday. While terming the improvement in the rankings as historic, the Prime Minister in a series of tweets, said that the jump is the outcome of the all-round and multi-sectoral reform push of Team India. Modi promised to take steps to further improve the rankings.
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