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Adani Green Energy on Monday said it has fully repaid its $750 million 'Holdco Notes' or bonds used to fund its expansion over the past three years, using its cash reserves and a fully funded redemption reserve account, avoiding the need for refinancing. In January, Adani Green had set aside funds to redeem the 4.38% Holdco Notes due on September 8, the company said in a statement.

In an interview with ETMarkets, Ramdas said: “India deserves to trade at a premium, and that’s completely alright. There are specific stocks and sectors, however, that investors must be wary of” Edited excerpts:

Traders have built bearish derivative bets on state-owned power sector lenders Power Finance Corp (PFC) and REC promoted by the reversal in the recent bullish momentum in these stocks. On Monday, Power Finance Corp dropped 3.7% to ₹525 and REC declined 2.6% to ₹592. In last five days, the stocks fell around 5% each while the benchmark Nifty shed 1.3% during the same period. Analysts see these stocks falling further as investors are shifting money from recent favourites like PSUs and power stocks to the so-called defensive sectors.

Triveni Turbine with a target price of Rs 830. The current market price of Triveni Turbine is Rs 738.7. Triveni Turbine Ltd., incorporated in the year 1995, is a Mid Cap company (having a market cap of Rs 23735.87 Crore) operating in Engineering sector.

PN Gadgil Jewellers is set to open for subscription on Tuesday and will be available for investors to bid till September 12. The IPO includes a fresh issue of up to 1.7 crore shares and an offer for sale (OFS) of up to 52 lakh shares by Binod Kumar Agarwal. The funds raised through the IPO are proposed to be utilised for the funding of expenditure towards setting of 12 new stores in Maharashtra, repayment of debt, and other general corporate purposes.

Stocks that were in focus include names like Bajaj Finance, which rose 0.34%, Tata Technologies, which declined 3.13%, and Minda Corp, whose shares fell nearly 0.4% on Monday.

share allotment of Shree Tirupati Balajee Agro Trading IPO is likely to be finalised today. Investors will get shares on a lottery basis and the registrar supervised the whole process. On the allotment date, investors get to know the number of shares allotted to them against the bids made. They can check the allotment status through the BSE or by visiting the registrar's website. Here's how you can check the status on BSE or even on the registrar's website.

Infosys and InCred has a hold rating on SBI Life while CLSA has maintained an outperform rating on ICICI Bank. Morgan Stanley has an overweight call on Suzlon Energy and Goldman Sachs has a buy rating on Marico.

SME IPO of SPP Polymer opens for subscription today and will close on September 12. The company aims to raise about Rs 24 crore through the SME IPO and list the shares on NSE SME platform. Here are 10 key things investors need to know about the public offer before subscribing to the issue.

Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail (ABFRL) Balrampur Chini, Bandhan Bank, Biocon, Chambal Fertilizers & Chemicals, Hindustan Copper and RBL Bank. The Future & Options contracts of any stock enter the ban period when the open interest (OI) on it crosses 95% of the market-wide positions limits or MWPL. The ban on it is reversed only if the open interest falls below 80%.

India and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on Monday, at their first-ever Foreign Ministers meeting in Riyadh, adopted a Joint Action Plan 2024-2028 for undertaking various joint activities in diverse areas, including health, trade, security, agriculture and food security, transportation, energy, culture, among others.

Gold prices remained stable on Tuesday as market participants focused on August inflation figures for hints about a likely reduction in Federal Reserve interest rates this month.

Oil prices rose about 1% on Monday on concerns that a hurricane forecast to hit Louisiana on Wednesday will disrupt production and refining along the U.S. Gulf Coast. Brent futures were up 78 cents, or 1.1%, to settle at $71.84 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude gained $1.04, or 1.5%, to settle at $68.71.

«This is supported by healthy macros and retail participation. Overall we expect the market to continue its consolidation mode with a gradual up move. US & Europe policy meeting in the near term would keep investors on edge,» said Siddhartha Khemka, Head — Research, Wealth Management, Motilal Oswal.

Azure Power, backed by CDPQ and OMERS, has said it would prepay $310 million of green bonds maturing in December 2024 through a loan from state-run REC. Azure Power had issued this bond, a total of $350 million, 5.65% senior notes in 2019. The instruments were maturing in December 2024. Now, the company will prepay $310 million of the outstanding with a loan of ₹2,400 crore arranged by REC.

«The second one is as far as the ice cream business is concerned, the business is not very large as far as HUL is concerned. It contributes just maybe 2.5-3% to total sales and it is under-indexed in terms of margins,» says Amnish Aggarwal, Prabhudas Lilladher. What is your take? Is this reaction on HUL stock on account of that expected rejig in the ice cream business warranted? Amnish Aggarwal: There are two factors to it. If you look at broadly why the sector is doing well and Lever is doing well from quite some time, this is due to expectations regarding uptake in demand due to normal monsoon this year. Given the fact that in the rural sector we have seen two wheelers in some of the other segments you can say growing in the past at least two to three quarters and in the last quarter rural was going ahead of urban in many of the segments, so that seems to be the one reason.

Federal Reserve interest rate cut next week. The greenback rose for the first time in five sessions versus the Japanese currency, while rising for a second straight day against the euro.

Anand Tandon, Independent Analyst, says among themes that will continue doing well will be insurance. Housing finance is going to have a new lease of life. It is a sector where many new companies have got listed over the past two years, and are reporting fairly good numbers. Travel tourism continues to remain reasonably attractive and robust because even today. Selectively, real estate will, for the next 12 to 18 months, continue to report reasonably good numbers. Tandon also says that India is on a trajectory of its own and is not looking for any negative news. As long as the flows continue, the market direction is reasonably settled. What do you make of the market mood right now? Throw in the global worries, throw in earnings downgrades, throw in any other news flow – but the Indian markets only know one direction! Anand Tandon: That is right, there is still a lot of optimism in the domestic market. To some extent, the US market gave a little bit of a push as well because of the expectation that a rate cut in the US may help emerging markets. India is on a trajectory of its own and is not looking for any negative news. As long as the flows continue, the market direction is reasonably settled.

TV Today Network among 10 companies is expected to be in focus today as they have set September 11 as the record date for determining shareholders eligible for dividend payments. This means today will be the last day to buy the shares of these companies in order to qualify for the dividends they announced.

Morgan Stanley said the decline in oil prices would be a cause for concern for Indian equities if the oil market is right about its assessment of a global slowdown. The brokerage said while falling oil may seem good for India's economy, earnings and shares, in practice, the impact depends on the reasons and duration of the fall. «We think it is safe to say that the recent bearishness in the oil markets is being led by growing concerns about slowing demand, and to that extent, its positive impact on India's terms of trade is diluted greatly,» said Morgan Stanley's strategists, including Ridham Desai, in a client note.

Federal Reserve's next policy decision next week. Investors had fled from equities last week when Friday's weaker-than-expected August jobs data followed weak manufacturing data on Tuesday, driving the Nasdaq Composite's biggest weekly loss since January 2022, and the S&P 500's biggest weekly decline since March 2023.