The stock of HCC was buzzing on Monday after the company reported that its rights issue was oversubscribed. The company raised Rs. 497.58 crore last week.

Government’s move is likely to be a matter of concern for FMCG players like Marico which use copra as their main raw material product. In FY18, out of total raw material used 53 per cent was copra and Kardi seed for Marico.

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Following stocks are close to their 52-week low as at 1.48 p.m. on December 31, 2018.

BHEL has bagged order for setting up 660 MW supercritical thermal power plant in West Bengal amounting to Rs. 3,500 crore, informed the company to the bourses on Monday.

The markets on December 31, 2018 opened up. BSE Sensex is trading at 36,090.84, up by 14.12 points and the Nifty is trading at 10,866.55, up by 6.65 points. 

Larsen & Toubro, an Indian multinational technology company, informed the exchanges that the company has won EPC orders worth Rs. 2,084 crore. The company’s power transmission and distribution business won this order for construction of substations of different capacities in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and in Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan.

Investors would be more than happy on Monday, December 31, to bid good-bye to a testing and tumultuous year 2018. As a farewell note to the year that tested our patience, DSIJ looks at the Good, the Bad and the Ugly events of 2018.

Overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 66.35 lacs contracts with a turnover of Rs. 4,00,246.92 crore.