On the higher side, a follow-through move above Monday’s session high (10,398) may take the index towards the level of 10,430, followed by 10,520.  Stocks in news: Britannia Industries, NBCC, Sadbhav Infra Project, Coal India and NCL Industries.

Indian markets are likely to witness a flat start following mixed cues from Asian peers and Wall Street. The SGX Nifty is trading up by 18 points at 10,385 level, indicating a flat start to the day.  
  

Volatile Indian stock markets turned negative in the afternoon session dragged down by the Metal stocks. The nosedive in the Metal index was in the wake of a nearly 4 per cent fall in the Chinese markets after its central bank cut the minimum reserve requirement for the banks last Friday.

Maruti Suzuki reported sales number of its new Dzire brand which was launched last year in May. The brand posted the fastest sales in the history of the Indian automobiles at 3 lakhs in the last 17 months since its launch.

The stocks of oil marketing companies were buzzing on the bourses on Monday as crude oil prices in the international market dropped by more than 1 per cent.

Cerebra Integrated Technologies has informed the bourses that it has been granted Responsible Recycling: 2013 (Environmental, Health and Safety Management System) Certification. This certification will complement the ISO 9001-2015 (Quality Management System), ISO 18001-2007 (Occupational Health and Safety Management System, OHSAS) ISO 14001-2015 (Environmental Management System) received by the company.

Following stocks are close to their 52-week low as at 1.10 p.m. on October 08, 2018.

The markets on October 08, 2018 opened flat. BSE Sensex is trading at 34,416.81, up by 39.82 points and the Nifty is trading at 10,347.00, up by 30.55 points. 

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) held its monetary policy review last week, wherein it kept the key policy rates unchanged. So let us find out how does this decision of RBI matters to the debt mutual fund investors.