Indian share markets witnessed volatile trading activity throughout the day today and ended higher.
Amid buying interest in banks, financials and IT stocks, benchmark indices scaled record highs but gave up day's gains in the afternoon deals.
At the closing bell, the BSE Sensex stood higher by 152 points (up 0.3%).
Meanwhile, the NSE Nifty closed higher by 22 points (up 0.1%).
Bharti Airtel and Tech Mahindra were among the top gainers today.
Shree Cement and JSW Steel, on the other hand, were among the top losers today.
The SGX Nifty was trading at 16,279, up by 7 points, at the time of writing.
The BSE Mid Cap index and the BSE Small Cap index ended down by 0.9% and 2%, respectively.
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Sectoral indices ended on a mixed note with stocks in the telecom sector and IT sector witnessing most of the buying interest.
Metal, realty and power stocks, on the other hand, witnessed selling pressure.
Shares of Bharti Airtel and Infosys hit their respective 52-week highs today.
Asian stock markets ended on a positive note today.
The Hang Seng and the Shanghai Composite ended the day up by 1.2% and 1%, respectively.
The Nikkei ended up by 0.2% in today's session.
US stock futures are trading on a flat note today with the Dow Futures trading down by 21 points.
The rupee is trading at 74.42 against the US$.
Gold prices for the latest contract on MCX are trading on a flat note today at Rs 45,920 per 10 grams.
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In news from the retailing sector, Future Retail was among the top buzzing stocks today.
Shares of Future Group companies were in focus today as they rallied up to 17% on the BSE in the intra-day trade on report that Amazon has drawn up blueprint to bailout for cash-strapped Future Retail.
Amazon.com Inc. is preparing a bailout plan for cash-strapped Future Retail if the Singapore international arbitration centre (SIAC) rules against a planned takeover of the Indian retail chain by Reliance Industries.
The stock of Future Retail was locked in the 10% upper circuit band at Rs 52 on the BSE. It bounced back 21% from its intra-day low of Rs 43.1.
Meanwhile, among others Future Group stocks, Future Consumer surged 17% on the BSE on the back of heavy volumes, Future Enterprises hit 10% upper circuit, while Future Lifestyle Fashions gained 9%.
In the past one week, all Future Group stocks declined between 24% and 26%, after the supreme court last week ruled in favour of Amazon in its tussle with the company.
The apex court allowed the appeal filed by Amazon against a Delhi High Court order staying attachment of properties of Future Group companies and Kishore Biyani in relation to the Rs 247.1 bn Future-Reliance deal. This came as a big boost to Amazon.
Future Retail share price ended the day up by 6.9% on the BSE.
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Moving on to news from the engineering sector...
Tata group company Nelco is in advanced talks with Canadian firm Telesat to ink a commercial pact for launching fast satellite broadband services in India under the latter's lightspeed brand, a move which will pit the combine against Bharti Enterprises-backed OneWeb, Elon Musk's SpaceX and Amazon.
Nelco's managing director PJ Nath said,
He said, though, that Nelco has 'no plans' to float a separate joint venture company with Telesat.
Telesat is the fourth global (LEO) satellite operator after OneWeb, SpaceX and Amazon that is keen to enter India's satellite services segment.
It proposes to offer satellite broadband services on the 28 gigahertz (GHz) band, popularly known as the Ka-band globally.
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As a result, LEO satellite systems are being seen as a viable alternative.
Nelco share price ended the day up by 5.6% on the BSE.
How this pans out remains to be seen. Meanwhile, stay tuned for more updates from this space.
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