In the Nifty200 pack, 6 stocks crossed above their 200 DMA (Daily Moving Averages) on July 28, according to stockedge.com's technical scan data. The 200-day DMA is used as a key indicator by traders for determining the overall trend in a particular stock. As long as the stock is priced above the 200-day SMA on the daily time frame, it is generally considered to be an overall uptrend.

In the Nifty200 pack, we have collated a list of 10 stocks that witnessed a 5-year swing high at the close on July 28, suggesting bullishness in counters, according to stockedge.com's technical scan data. Take a look.A 5-year swing high represents the highest price a stock has reached within a five-year timeframe. This level acts as a significant resistance point where the price has historically struggled to go beyond. This occurrence may be seen as a bullish sign, indicating the potential for further upward movement in the stock.However, it's worth noting that this is different from a 5-year breakout, which occurs when a stock's price surpasses a key resistance level that has held for five years.

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Since it is the beginning of the new series, option data is scattered at various far strikes in the monthly series. On the weekly front, the maximum Call OI is placed at 19800 and then towards 19700 strikes.

ET Now spoke to various experts, and here's what they have to recommend for today's trading session. Kunal Bothra has a buy/sell recommendation on IRCTC and Tata Chemicals, while Nooresh Merani has a buy/sell recommendation on Apollo Hospitals and Bank of Baroda for today's trading session. Check out the targets and stoploss.

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Stocks that were in focus include names like Zomato, which rose 2.12%, IEX, which gained 2.13%, and Motilal Oswal, whose shares jumped 0.22% on Friday.

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Nifty futures traded 26 points, or 0.13 per cent, higher at 19,816, signaling that Dalal Street was headed for a positive start on Monday. Here's a slew of stocks that will be in focus today for various reasons.

The early impetus for shares was positive following Friday's U.S. data showing an easing in wage costs and core inflation, which fuelled hopes the Federal Reserve was done tightening.

State-owned power producer NTPC reported a 9% rise in net profit to Rs 4,066 crore in Q1. Revenue from operations, however, declined 2% YoY to Rs 39,122 crore.

"Apollo Hospitals stock has been making higher highs from the last four months and surpassed its hurdle zones on weekly zone and holding on quite well above it. Traders can buy for a target of Rs 5500 in the next 2-3 weeks," Shivangi Sarda, Analyst, Derivatives and Technical Research, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd, said.

India's corporate capex spending is rising due to rising cash flows and improving balance sheets, with three out of four companies from a sample of 373 of the S&P BSE 500 index reporting year-on-year improvement in gross fixed assets for FY23. Mainly oil and gas, metals and power firms form a major part of incremental GFA.

The US fund exits online retailer with a 4% stake sale to Walmart in final deal of phased selloff.

Nirma Group is likely to acquire an 82.84% stake in Glenmark Life Sciences in a deal worth INR 6,664 to INR 7,000 crore. The company has emerged as the sole bidder following the deadline last week, with the acquisition likely to be facilitated by healthcare subsidiary Aculife Healthcare.

The recent performance of the Sensex, BSE Mid Cap, and BSE Small Cap indices since the Covid fear peak in April 2020 sheds light on this investor behaviour. While the Sensex returned a respectable 33%, the BSE Mid Cap outperformed at 42%, but it was the BSE Small Cap that gave an astounding 53% return.

Reliance Capital is undergoing in-court restructuring and the creditors have approved a resolution plan of ₹9,660 crore offered by Hinduja Group company IndusInd International Holdings. Its committee of creditors earlier this month approved a proposal to invest in the insurance unit to help maintain its market share and step up growth, as reported by ET on July 20.

Significantly RBI data indicates a surge under all major heads of eligible transactions. But Spends on overseas travel which accounts for over half of LRS or liberalised remittances scheme rose 50 percent in May to $1.5 billion.

Overall bank borrowings stood at a whopping Rs 8.2 lakh crore as on July 14, a day after the record date for the merger, the latest data published by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) showed. This is Rs 2.7 lakh crore higher than the previous record high posted on October 21, 2022.

Several measures of financial conditions, including those produced by the central bank, have shifted in way that signals reduced restraint on the economy, at a time when central bank officials believe more work may be needed to lower inflation.

Forms working group under industry veterans to find ways to encourage fund flows while also protecting investors.

The past 18 week’s spectacular ~19% up-move has pushed weekly and monthly stochastic oscillators into overbought conditions, indicating the possibility of extended consolidation.

After delivering a fresh interest-rate hike Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled that Monday's senior loan officer opinion survey, which typically polls more than 80 lenders, will show tightening lending standards. The extent of the decline will be closely watched.

Li Chunlin, vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, and officials from the ministry of industry and information technology, the ministry of commerce and the State Administration for Market Regulation will hold a press conference on Monday in Beijing, according to a statement from the State Council Information Office.

As Ambani’s Jio Financial and US-based BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, team up to take on India’s asset management industry’s well-entrenched incumbents, corporate watchers are wondering whether this is the Jio Moment for the asset management space. While the scope for Jio BlackRock is immense, it will require more than just repeating the playbook Reliance used in telecom and retail to replicate that success.

The reading of the volatility of a stock shows how much the current price moves away from the moving average price. In a smooth trending market, where the value changes at a steady pace over time, tends to have low volatility.

Apollo Hospitals Ltd, a unit of the healthcare industry, saw a new 52-week high recently. The stock has broken out of its narrow consolidation range on the daily charts and is set to reach 5500 levels, according to experts. Short-term traders are advised to buy dips in the stock as long as it remains above recent support above 5000 levels. The stock has performed well over the past three months, rallying by over 18%.

Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has banned five entities, including Excel Realty N Infra, and imposed fines amounting to Rs 1.75 crore ($234,111) for a fraudulent scheme that misrepresented the company's financial statements. The barred entities include Excel Realty's promoters and the company's former CFO. SEBI found that Excel misrepresented transactions amounting to INR 119 crore, and its consolidated financial statements for the fiscal years 2016-17 to 2020-21. The regulatory body has barred Excel for six months and Lakhmendra Khurana for two years from the securities market.

ICICI Securities recommends selling the 3rd August Nifty 19650 call between 95-100 and setting a stop loss of 5 with a target price of 50; the same condition is advised for selling the 3rd August 19650 call. The Nifty is expected to remain at 19500-19800 levels in the near future. According to the India VIX, volatility is at a low of 10.20 and may remain so. Long positions must have a stop loss near the 19500 levels.

Sectorally, buying was seen in utilities, power, realty, and public sector stocks while selling was seen in IT, banks and oil & gas. Stocks that were in focus include names like Intellect Design Arena which rose by about 20%, Ajanta Pharma gained more than 4% and NCC closed with gains of over 7% to a fresh 52-week high on Friday.

Indian equities on Friday ended on a weak note in a range bound trade for the second consecutive day. Sensex settled with a cut of 107 points at 66,160, after falling below 66,000 in intraday trade for the first time in 2 weeks, whereas Nifty ended with a minor cut of 14 points at 19,646. Meanwhile, broader markets continued to outperform their headline peers. with the Nifty Midcap 100 index notching a fresh all-time high.“Nifty remained range bound for the day, while finding a support at 21 EMA. From the current level until the Nifty breaks below 19550 no directional down move is expected or the market may not favour aggressive shorts. On the other side, below 19550 the index may fall towards 19300. Resistance on the higher end is placed at 19700,” Rupak De, Senior Technical analyst at LKP Securities, saidHere are stock recommendations for Monday:

After years of under performance, in the last one year, both at an index level and individual stocks levels, PSU banks have seen much better price performance. Though even after all this performance they are still far below the level where they used to trade. So If one goes by what analysts are saying, it will be extremely stock specific. The story has a list of banks with PSU banks with Strong buy, Buy and Hold recommendation

After years of under performance, in the last one year, both at an index level and individual stocks levels, PSU banks have seen much better price performance. Though even after all this performance they are still far below the level where they used to trade. So If one goes by what analysts are saying, it will be extremely stock specific. The story has a list of banks with PSU banks with Strong buy, Buy and Hold recommendation

A software company with a net margin of 10% is probably not worth looking at but if an infrastructure and construction company has a net margin of 10% it is not bad at all. The best construction player in India strives to get double digit numbers, but it has been able to create wealth for its stakeholder. Every industry has its own matrix which should be taken into account before investing. ET screener powered by Refinitiv’s Stock Report Plus lists stocks with high upside potential over the next 12 months, having an average recommendation rating of “buy” or "strong buy"

One of the reasons why looking only at Price earning (PE) ratio leads to wrong decisions is that by the time PE gets adjusted to newly announced earnings per share (EPS), it is too late. Especially in the case of commodity stocks, PE ratio is probably the last thing to look at as it creates a mirage of value. Coming on the list is an Adani group company, which even skeptics say is probably best placed in its sector.

A software company with a net margin of 10% is probably not worth looking at but if an infrastructure and construction company has a net margin of 10% it is not bad at all. The best construction player in India strives to get double digit numbers, but it has been able to create wealth for its stakeholder. Every industry has its own matrix which should be taken into account before investing. ET screener powered by Refinitiv’s Stock Report Plus lists stocks with high upside potential over the next 12 months, having an average recommendation rating of “buy” or "strong buy"

While Reliance Industries, HDFC Bank, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), ICICI Bank, Hindustan Unilever, ITC and Bajaj Finance Limited were the main laggards in the top-10 pack, Infosys, State Bank of India and Bharti Airtel made gains in their market capitalisation (mcap)

The potential impact of rate hikes on global liquidity would have led foreign investors to re-evaluate their investment decisions," Himanshu Srivastava, Associate Director - Manager Research, Morningstar India, said.According to the data, FPIs have been continuously buying Indian equities since March and infused Rs 45,365 crore this month. Only one trading day is left in July

Foreign portfolio investors' (FPIs) buying spree in Indian equities appears to be losing steam, with net investments of just Rs 468 crore in domestic markets last week, compared to Rs 7,804 crore in the preceding week. The benchmarks Sensex and Nifty 50 witnessed their first weekly loss in five weeks as investors took partial profits. However, inflows from FPIs were positive for the fourth consecutive month, with over $4bn invested in July, lower than June's over $6bn inflows.

Tata Steel reported its consolidated net profit fell 92% year-on-year to Rs 634 crore for the first quarter ended June. Its revenue from operations fell 6% to Rs 59,490 crore in the first quarter, compared with Rs 63,430 crore in the same quarter of last year.

These circumstances led to unbiased selling in emerging markets as investors sought safer assets with higher yields, further exacerbated by the strengthening of the US Dollar. The collective occurrence of these events elevated the geoeconomic risk landscape to structurally higher levels

Top stocks that have witnessed the maximum consensus downgrades are related to defensive sectors and commodities, shows an analysis by ICICI Securities. Here are 10 midcaps and smallcaps that saw maximum consensus downgrades over 1 year.

“As sentiment, technicals and risk of the recession got pushed further out we moved from being underweight stocks to overweight,” said Nathan Thooft, global head of asset allocation at Manulife Asset Management in Boston, who’s reduced his credit exposure in favor of an equity overweight

Major firms such as Maruti Suzuki, Titan, Bharti Airtel, and M&M among others will release their June quarter results this week. The report cards of other companies such as GAIL, Power Grid, Sun Pharma, and Adani Enterprises are also expected to be out. This week, Maruti Suzuki, Adani Enterprises, Adani Transmission, Titan, IndiGo, Bharti Airtel, Sun Pharma, SBI, M&M, Varun Beverages, and Bank of Baroda are scheduled to announce their quarterly performance.

Rupee cost averaging, the cornerstone of Systematic Investment Plans (SIPs), may not remain effective in optimizing returns as accumulated amounts grow. The impact of regular SIP contributions on a larger portfolio tends to dilute, reducing the effectiveness of the strategy. Additionally, constantly relying on SIPs may lead to missed opportunities to make lump-sum investments during market downturns that could yield higher returns in the long run.

Slew of domestic quarterly earnings releases by firms including Power Grid, Titan Company and Gail (India) and several AGMs are expected to focus investors' attention on corporate earnings this week. Despite foreign institutional inflows slowing down after a strong start to the month, the overall trajectory of the Indian stock market remains positive, said Shibani Sircar Kurian, senior EVP and head of equity research at Kotak Mahindra Asset Management, although the market is consolidating after a strong recent rally.

NTPC will receive Rs 7,795 crore from the transfer of the coal mining business. This is based on the book value, payable through a combination of cash/equity shares/debt liability, the company said in an exchange filing.

From Titan to Zomato, a lot of companies are coming up with their Q1 results soon. Here's a look at the key companies that will be releasing their Q1 report cards during the week starting from July 31st. Watch!

The Indian equity market boasts an impressive market cap of over US$ 3.8 trillion, with nearly all of it attributed to India-incorporated companies. In our article published in ET in 2022, we emphasized on encouraging foreign companies to list in India as their secondary listing destination and conversely Indian-promoted companies that are presently incorporated and listed exclusively outside India to opt for Indian exchanges as their secondary listing platform.

The index managed to close just above its 20-day moving average of 45350, which will act as a crucial support level, as a break below this level could lead to further selling pressure and potentially extend the downtrend, Shah said.