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Sensex Trades on a Volatile Note; Bajaj Auto & SBI Top Losers
Wed, 2 Sep 12:30 pm

Share markets in India are presently trading on a flat note in today's volatile trade as border tensions with China worried investors.

Benchmark indices opened on a cautious note today, dragged down by public sector banks, ahead of the Supreme Court's hearing on loan moratorium.

The BSE Sensex is trading down by 23 points, at 38,900 levels.

Meanwhile, the NSE Nifty is trading up by 6 points. The top gainers in NSE today include Zee Entertainment and Coal India.

The BSE Mid Cap index is trading up by 0.3%. The BSE Small Cap index is trading up by 1.2%.

On the sectoral front, automobile stocks are witnessing selling pressure. Meanwhile, energy stocks and telecom stocks are trading in green.

Vodafone Idea is among the top gainers today after the company announced board meet on September 4 to consider fund raising.

The rupee is trading at 72.96 against the US$.

Gold prices are currently trading down by 0.3% at Rs 51,318.

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Speaking of stock markets, a right investing process helps you win in the long term. It might offer some unexpected and undesirable results but lets you fare well when you average the outcomes in the long term.

As per Richa Agarwal, any investment process should be judged not based on individual outcomes. Instead it should have stood the test of the time.

Her smallcap service Hidden Treasure has had fair share of failures in. But sticking to a disciplined process meant to Hidden Treasure's internal rate of return (IRR) of 24.38% since inception. This compares favorably to the IRRs of 9.6% for the Sensex, and 8.8% for the smallcap index in the same period (February 2008 - June 2020) as can be seen in the chart below.


The service's performance did suffer in the short term after the 2018 crash in smallcaps. However, the long term track record and the post Covid rebound underscores the strength of stock picking process.

In news from the mutual funds space, to further enhance transparency, Indian markets regulator on Tuesday revised disclosure requirements pertaining to debt and money market securities transactions for mutual funds.

The new framework will come into effect from October 1, the regulator said in circular.

The regulator has asked mutual funds to disclose details of debt and money market securities transacted in their schemes portfolio, including inter-scheme transfers, on a daily basis with a time lag of 15 days in a prescribed format.

At present, a time lag of 30 days has been allowed.

Under the new disclosure format, fund houses need to mention about name of the security, type of security, most conservative rating of security at the time of transaction, if applicable, name of the rating agency and transaction type.

Among others, they need to disclose about listed status of security, name of mutual fund, scheme name, type of scheme, residual days to final maturity, deemed maturity date, quantity traded, face value per unit and value of such trade.

In other news, Rivaaz Trade Ventures (RTV), a Future Group entity, has defaulted on its debt repayment obligation, impacting four schemes of Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund.

These four schemes are part of the six schemes that were wound up by the fund house in April.

Franklin is hopeful that Future Group will be able to repay all pending dues following its deal with Reliance Industries.

On August 29, Reliance Retail announced the acquisition of various businesses of Future Group on a slump sale basis for an aggregate sum of Rs 247.1 billion.

Moving on to stock specific news...

Adani Green Energy is among the top buzzing stocks today.

Shares of the company surged 10% to hit an all-time high of Rs 546 on the BSE after the company informed that Mercom Capital has ranked the Adani Group as the number 1 global solar power generation asset owner in terms of operating, under construction, and awarded solar projects.

Adani's renewable energy portfolio exceeds the total capacity installed by the entire United States solar industry in 2019 and will displace over 1.4 billion tons of carbon dioxide over the life of its assets, the press release added.

Adani Green Energy established its first solar project in 2015. The company went public in 2018.

The company also achieved a top spot in the global ranking in terms of under construction and awarded capacity with 10.1 GW of projects, making it the definitive leader in mega-scale renewable energy project deployments.

Other Adani group stocks are also trading in the green. Adani Enterprises is up over 1% while Adani Ports is trading 0.6% higher.

Adani Transmission is up over 1% and Adani Gas surged over 5% to Rs 186.40.

Recently, Adani Group acquired a 74% stake in Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL), which operates India's second-largest airport in Mumbai. Under the transaction, Adani Group will acquire 50.5% stake of GVK group.

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