The following stocks would be in focus during Friday’s trading session in light of their results announcement: Nestle India, Inox Leisure, HDFC Limited, ITC and Bata India.

Despite a decent recovery in the last trading session, the benchmark indices failed to close in the green zone. The BSE Sensex dipped by 462.80 points or 1.23 per cent at 37,018.32 on Thursday on the back of negative global cues as the US Fed cut benchmark policy rate.

Here are the stocks to look out on August 2 include NCC, Marico, Sadbhav Infrastructure, Wipro and Ceat.

Biocon informed the bourses that the company along with Mylan has launch Ogivri (trastuzumab), a biosimilar to Herceptin1, for the treatment of HER2-overexpressing breast cancer and metastatic stomach cancer (gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma) in Australia.

Following stocks are close to their 52-weeks low as at 2:51 p.m. on August 01, 2019.

With this weak auto sales numbers, on Thursday, the Nifty auto index made an intraday low of 6,783 and at 14:18 hours, Nifty Auto index was trading at 6,806.05, down by 42.30 points. Looking at the stock movements of the automakers, the stock of Maruti Suzuki gained nearly 2 per cent whereas Ashok Leyland declined by nearly 4 per cent.

India's manufacturing activity strengthened in the month of July, on the back of a quicker upturn in factory orders. Manufacturing performance surged to 52.5 in July from 52.1 in June.

The markets on August 01, 2019 opened gap down. BSE Sensex is trading at 36738.67, down by 742.45 points and the Nifty is trading at 10892.85, down by 192.55 points. 

Tata Consultancy Services has launched the ADD (Advanced Drug Development) size feasibility platform which provides life sciences companies with a single, integrated platform that digitises the site selection and activation processes, and facilitates data-driven decision-making while assessing site feasibility for multi-site clinical trials.

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