Overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 1.74 crore contracts with a turnover of Rs. 11,71,155.12 crore.

Cement prices were on a path of ascension until March 2019. This trend continued until the companies had to roll back the hike to a certain extent in the northern and southern regions due to subdued demand.

Going ahead, the level of 11,510, followed by 11,570, will act as resistance levels, and on the flip side, the level of 11,390 is likely to act as a support level, followed by 11,311. Stock in news: GMR Infrastructure, Meghmani Organics, Persistent System, PNB, Unitech.

The outlook for the day is a flat start with a negative bias in early trading. There could be jitters as former RBI governor; Raghuram Rajan has expressed doubts on India’s ability to grow GDP at 7 per cent if sufficient jobs are not created. Also, he hinted at the confusing signals coming on the quality of data and suggests that the government must come clean on a single reliable source. At the time of writing, the SGX Nifty was trading down by 24 points at 11,500.

Mumbai-based engineering company, Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) agrees to a proposal to monetize its arbitration awards and claims to raise around Rs. 1,750 crore.

The stocks that are likely to witness significant movement on the bourses on March 27 are Unitech, Reliance Industries, ITC, BPCL, Mayur Uniquoters, PNB and Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services. 

Hyderabad-based Laurus Labs, a leading R&D-driven pharmaceutical company in India, has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Global Fund for the tenure of 3.5 years.

The said patent would help the company in manufacturing fabric for bath and bed products without the usage of chemically harmful fibers. It also allows the fabric to dry easily. This would bring new opportunities and drive the revenue as bath and bed products which are the highest contributors to the company’s total revenue.

Pennar Industries plans to scale up the number of retail outlets for its branded building products. The company's retail stores for building products is called ‘Build360’. The company plans to increase its total store count from 11 to 42 by 2020.

The benchmark indices BSE Sensex and Nifty50 again surprised in the last leg of trading on Tuesday with a 400 point jump. Sensex closed at 38,233.41, up by 424.50 points or 1.12 per cent and Nifty50 was at 11,493.65, up by 139.40 points or 1.23 per cent. While Bank Nifty was again close to 30,000 level.