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To join the conversation, click on the link: https://forms.thomsonreuters.com/communities/ INDIA TOP NEWS • India, China soldiers involved in border altercation - Indian sources Indian and Chinese soldiers were involved in an altercation in the western Himalayas on Tuesday, Indian sources said, further raising tensions between the two countries which are already locked in a two-month standoff in another part of the disputed border. • Modi urges India to reject violence in name of religion Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged India on Tuesday to reject religious violence, after a series of attacks against minorities sparked debate about whether a surge of Hindu nationalism is undermining the country's secular ideals. • Retail inflation picks up for first time in four months India's annual consumer price inflation picked up in July after easing for three straight months as a decline in food prices abated, but it remained well below the central bank's central target. • July wholesale inflation rate picks up for first time in 5 months India's wholesale price inflation rate picked up in July after easing for four straight months, with food prices back on the rise. • Tata Power June-quarter profit more than doubles Tata Power Co Ltd's first-quarter profit more than doubled, helped by higher income from its core power generation business. • IDBI Bank posts 3rd straight quarterly loss; shares sink State-run lender IDBI Bank Ltd posted a third straight quarterly loss on lower interest income and higher bad loans. • Titan sees up to 30 percent rise in sales with stores expansion Titan Co expects its jewellery sales to rise by 20-30 percent in 2017/18 fiscal year ending March, as it plans to add more than two dozen retail stores to boost its presence in small towns, a senior company official said. • Coal India Q1 profit falls 23 percent, misses estimates Coal India Ltd said its first-quarter profit fell 23 percent, missing analysts' estimates. GLOBAL TOP NEWS • Trump, again, casts blame on both sides for deadly violence in Virginia U.S. President Donald Trump insisted on Tuesday that left- and right-wing extremists became violent during a weekend rally by white nationalists in Virginia, reigniting a political firestorm over U.S. race relations and his own leadership of a national crisis. • N. Korea delays Guam missile firing; U.S. says dialogue up to Kim North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has delayed a decision on firing missiles towards Guam while he waits to see what the United States does, the North's state media reported on Tuesday as the United States said any dialogue was up to Kim. • Britain seeks Brexit without borders for Northern Ireland There should be no border posts between Ireland and the British province of Northern Ireland after Brexit, Britain said in an early attempt to resolve one of the most complex aspects of its European Union exit. LOCAL MARKETS OUTLOOK (As reported by NewsRise) • The SGX Nifty Futures were trading at 9,814.00, trading up 0.2 percent from its previous close. • Indian sovereign bonds are likely to fall in early trade after retail inflation for July picked up pace for the first time in four months, limiting hopes of future interest rate cuts. The yield on the benchmark 6.79 percent bond maturing in 2027 is likely to trade in a 6.50 percent-6.55 percent band. • The Indian rupee will likely open lower against the dollar, as an upbeat U.S. retail sales data lifted demand for the greenback. GLOBAL MARKETS • U.S. stocks ended little changed on Tuesday as declines in Home Depot and other retailers following results offset upbeat U.S. retail sales data. • The dollar hoarded hefty gains after strong U.S. retail data put a Federal Reserve rate hike back on the agenda, while Asia stocks inched ahead as tensions over North Korea simmered down little. • U.S. benchmark Treasury yields rose to one-week highs on Tuesday as investors pared low-risk bond holdings on signs of easing U.S.-North Korean tensions and on strong domestic retail sales and regional factory activity data. • Oil prices edged up on a fall in U.S. crude inventories, although markets were still being weighed down by general oversupply. • Gold prices firmed early as the dollar weakened slightly, with investors waiting for the release of minutes from the U.S. Federal Reserve's last meeting in July for clues on the pace of potential interest rate hikes. CLOSE FII INVESTMENTS EQUITIES DEBT PNDF spot 64.17/64.20 August 14 -$255.63 mln -$40.39 mln 10-yr bond yield 6.81 pct Month-to-date -$417.05 mln $1.00 bln Year-to-date $8.56 bln $22.14 bln For additional data: India govt bond market volumes Stock market reports Non-deliverable forwards data Corporate debt stories [IN CORPD] Local market closing/intraday levels [IN SNAPSHOT] Monthly inflows [INFLOWS RTRS TABLE IN] ($1 = 64.1150 Indian rupees) (Compiled by Erum Khaled in Bengaluru)