The shares of NBFCs experienced sudden and heavy selling pressure on Friday. The rising cost of borrowing of housing finance companies is a major concern for the investors. 

Despite a huge turmoil in the benchmark indices, majorly led by the NBFCs which also dragged the Nifty IT index 1.4 per cent, the giants TCS and Wipro maintained upsurge and hit record high levels.

Many investors start investing through SIP or lumpsum into mutual funds and just forget about it. But it is important to maintain the desired asset allocation. So it is important to re-balance your mutual fund portfolio to maintain the required level of asset allocation. Read on more to find out what is re-balancing and why is it important.

Brent oil prices witnessed bottom fishing at 70.30 levels in the mid-August 2018 and thereby gave a bounce-back near to its important resistance levels. The prices surged 14 per cent from the said low to a high of 80.13 hit on September 12, 2018.  

Update on NFO (New Fund Offer) that are currently open for subscription.

Aavas Financiers plans to raise up to Rs. 1734 cr through offer for sale (OFS) and fresh issue of shares. The OFS includes sale of 1.6 cr shares with face value of Rs 10. The fresh issue will be to raise ~Rs.400 cr by issuing ~48.7 lakh shares. The price band is Rs.818 – Rs.821 per equity share. The offer opens from Sep 25- Sep 28.

Steel Authority of India has announced that it has nearly completed its modernisation and expansion of Rs 72,000 crore. The modernisation and expansion programme was undertaken by the company to increase its capacity to 21 million tonnes per annum (MTPA).

Strides Pharma’s stock jumped 3.5 per cent during Friday’s opening trade as the decision to merge Arrow and Apotex did not face opposition by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

Gravita India Limited, a leading recycling company, has said that the company has expanded the capacity of its existing plant located at Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, by installing new washing line and PPCP granules extrusion lines having annual capacity of 4,800 MTPA.

Dilip Buildcon has emerged as the L-1 bidder for the Indore metro project. Post the news, the company's stock rose by over 2 per cent intra-day on Friday.