EQUITY TRADING TIPS UPDATES FOR AUGUST 18, 2015

MARKET ANALYSIS
 

 Nifty ends below 8500, Sensex loses 189 pts; SBI up 4%
 

 Amara Raja Batteries hits record high post strong Q1 nos
 

 IndiGo firms up 250 jet order from Airbus
 

 Birla Corp to buy Lafarge's India cement units for Rs 5,000 cr
 

 Goldman Sachs invests Rs 900 cr in Piramal Entreprises
 

 CBDT to clarify on bank a/c disclosures under black money law EQUITY TRADING TIPS

MARKET ANALYSIS
 

 Reversing gains seen in the preceding two trading sessions, the S&P BSE Sensex lost 189.04 points, or 0.67 per cent, to settle at 27,878.27 on Monday.
 

 The 50-share Nifty barometer shed 41.25 points, or 0.48 per cent, to close the session at 8,477.30.
 21 of the 30 Sensex stocks ended the day in the negative terrain.
 

 Ci pla was the top Sensex loser, down over 5 per cent. Tata Steel and SBI were the top gainers, up 4 per cent each.
 

 Major European markets were quoting mixed. Britain's FTSE 100 was down 0.07 per cent, France's CAC 40 and German DAX added 0.4 per cent each.
 

 Earlier in the day, most Asian markets ended with a positive bias. China's Shanghai Composite rose 0.71 per cent, or 28.33 points, to close at 3,993.67. Japan's Nikkei added 0.5 per cent to settle at 20,620.26. Meanwhile, shrugging off the positive cues, Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 0.74 per cent,or 176.38 points, to end the session at 23,814.65

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