Much to our delight, it seems that the Indian markets may witness a positive opening on Wednesday. As the saying goes, someone’s loss is always another’s gain and the sharp fall in crude oil prices is certainly a big positive for the Indian markets. Too much supply combined with demand concerns led to a sharp drop in crude oil prices on Tuesday. The SGX Nifty is trading up by 66 points and indicates that Nifty may open around the level of 10,238. Among Nifty 50 companies, Bajaj Auto, Bharti Infratel, Kotak Mahindra Bank and Wipro will declare their quarterly earnings today.  

Ahluwalia Contracts (India) Limited has announced that the company has been awarded Rs. 538.76 crore for a project in Lucknow. Shares of the company dipped below 3 per cent.

The PAT for the quarter came in at Rs. 33.48 crore as against Rs. 26.87 crore in the corresponding quarter last year, an increase of 25 per cent YoY. This jump in profit was mainly due to sharp decline in effective tax rate to 8 per cent in Q2FY19 from 21 per cent in Q2FY18.

The company reported highest ever quarterly profit and turnover, on Tuesday. The stock of Aksh Optifibre closed at Rs. 26.55 per share, up by 3.51 per cent on the BSE exchange.

Automaker TVS Motors posted revenue of Rs. 4,994 crore for Q2FY19, registering an increase of almost 22 per cent from the corresponding quarter last year. 

GNA Axles Limited Ltd. reported its results for the quarter ended September 30, 2018 during the market hours. GNA Axles Limited standalone revenue for the quarter came in at Rs. 227.24 crore.

The NII for the quarter increased by 35.9 per cent yoy and 3.3 per cent qoq to Rs. 2,319.86 crore in Q2FY19 as against Rs. 2,245.54 crore in Q1FY19 and Rs. 1,707.54 crore in Q2FY18.

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To add to the ease of investing in mutual funds and bring in more transparency, Sebi scraped upfronting of commissions. 

RBL Bank’s net interest income for the second quarter of FY19 surged almost 41 per cent yoy to Rs. 593 crore. Also, core fee income grew by 60 per cent yoy to Rs. 325.24 crore, while other income grew by 38 per cent to Rs. 333.11 crore.