Overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 1.96 crore contracts with a turnover of Rs. 11,39,551.71 crore.

Going ahead, the low of 10,735 is likely to act as a crucial support for the index. Stocks in news: Equitas Holdings, Asian Granito, Autoline Industries, Dena Bank, Vijaya Bank, Bank of Baroda, Ashok Leyland and Tata Power.

Indian markets may open flat to slightly higher on Thursday, tracking modest gains in other Asian markets. The SGX Nifty points to Nifty opening around the level of 10,861, up by 29 points. 

The stocks most likely to witness significant movement on the bourses on January 3, 2019 are PNB Housing Finance, Pennar Industries Limited and Pennar Engineered Building Systems, Vijaya Bank, Capacit’e Infraprojects and Kellton Tech Solutions.

The company announced the successful implementation of Optima, a cloud-based artificial intelligent-enabled IoT platform in the oil and gas industry. Kellton proprietary IoT Edge device Envision was used for this project. 

Following stocks are close to their 52-week low as at 16.05 p.m. on Jan 02, 2019.

The markets on Jan 02, 2019 opened up. BSE Sensex is trading at 35,891.52, down by 363.05 points and the Nifty is trading at 10,792.50 down by 117.60 points. 

Capacit’e Infraprojects has bagged an order from Institute of Chemical Technology. The shares of the company reached an intraday high of 3 per cent on Thursday.

The shares of Atul auto rallied as the company reported its December sales number. 

Gold has reached near short-term resistance US$1,287 which is 61.8 per cent Fibonacci retracement level of recent down move started from the high of April 2018 to the low of August 2018.