After witnessing fierce sell-off, crude oil prices traded in contracting consolidation from last three weeks which looks like symmetric contracting triangle in lower time frame. The contracting triangle can be a continuation or a reversal pattern. Although, more often it is a continuation pattern.

Chennai Petroleum Limited reached near its downward sloping trendline formed by connecting highs from January 2018, on the weekly time frame. This coincides by the stock's long-term moving average, i.e. 200-week exponential moving average, which is currently placed at 283.20 level. After registering its 52-week low, the stock is trading in a range for the last nine weeks along with low volumes, which indicates it is just a pull-back and the original downtrend is likely to resume soon.

Mutual fund houses follow different methods of valuation for corporate bonds which lead to discrepancies in the NAV of the fund, to address this issue SEBI is likely to issue uniform guidelines for pricing of corporate bonds in mutual funds. Read on to find out more.

Ministry of Finance has increased the central government's NPS contribution for its employees to 14 per cent from the existing 10 per cent. The government has also tweaked the tax exemption limit for withdrawal on exit making it a Triple E investment plan.

The stocks most likely to witness significant movement on the bourses on December 15 are Aditya Birla Capital, Indian Oil Corporation, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea, Gujarat Ambuja Exports and Jet Airways. 

The popular index Bank Nifty opened gap-down on Tuesday and formed sizeable bullish candle around its short-term support zone of 25650-25600, which is the 50 per cent Fibonacci retracement level of its entire upward move starting from the low of early October to the high of December 3,2018.

The stock of biotech company Biocon Limited formed an outside bar resembling a Bullish Engulfing pattern on the weekly time frame, which indicates bulls were in dominant position. After six weeks of contracting consolidation, Biocon has recently given a breakout along with decent volumes.

Supreme Court of India dismissed all the petitions seeking court direction for investigating the alleged scam in the procurement of 36 Rafale jets from the French company Dassault Aviation. Also, DoT agreed to issue NOC for the Rcom-RJio deal.

IT giant Infosys gained on the bourses as the company declared the formation of a JV with Hitachi, Panasonic Corporation and Pasona Inc. Shares of the company gained almost 3 per cent intraday.

The stock of Max India saw a phenomenal uptrend during Friday's trading session. There is a buzz in the market that the company is planning an exit from its insurance business. At 14:26 hours, Max India was quoting Rs. 79.80 per share, up by Rs. 13.00 or 19.46 per cent.