DSIJ Mindshare

The beginning of calendar year 2019 brought cheers to some stocks as they managed to post stellar return in the first fortnight of January 2019. On the other hand, the benchmark indices such as Nifty and Sensex delivered a negative return of around 1.6 per cent and 1.11 per cent, respectively.

The shares of Larsen & Toubro were trading in green in the morning session as the company's wholly-owned subsidiary, L&T Hydrocarbon Consortium secured an EPCI order from Saudi Aramco.

Following stocks are close to their 52-week low as at 12.52 p.m. on January 15, 2019.

The markets on January 15, 2019 opened gap up. BSE Sensex is trading at 36,182.04, up by 328.48 points and the Nifty is trading at 10,842.80, up by 105.20 points. 

India’s retail inflation dipped to 2.19 per cent low in December 2018 from 2.33 per cent in the preceding month, this is near RBI’s lowest target for inflation.