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₹701.17 crore on Monday, while DIIs bought securities for a net total of ₹2,488.07 crore.Auto shares will be under lens today as companies will declare their monthly sales figures, Market participants will also be closely observing the upcoming release of the US manufacturing Purchasing Manager's Index (PMI) data, US services PMI data as well as US non-farm payrolls scheduled between August 1 and August 4.Wall Street and global stocks edged up on Monday as traders looked ahead to corporate earnings and a key employment report due this week.The central government has more than doubled the windfall profit tax on the production of crude oil with effect from 1 August, showed an official order.The tax, levied in the form of special additional excise duty has been raised from Rs. 1600 a tonne to Rs.

4250 a tonne, showed the order.The special additional excise duty on the export of diesel has also been raised from zero to ₹1 a litre from 1 August. (Read More)Wall Street and global stocks edged up on Monday while oil prices gained and the dollar was little changed, as traders looked ahead to corporate earnings and a key employment report due this week.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.28% to 35,560.19, the S&P 500 gained 0.15% to 4,589.15 and the Nasdaq Composite added 0.21% to 14,346.02.Apple Inc and Amazon.com both report on Thursday, while other well-known names with results due include Caterpillar Inc, Starbucks Corp and Advanced Micro Devices.European shares gained modestly after euro zone inflation fell further in July seeing that most measures of underlying price growth also eased.