After two consecutive monthly price hikes, this price reduction may bring some relief for aviation players as aircraft fuel forms around 35 to 40 per cent of total expenses.

The company's plant in Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh started commercial production of MDF on July 1. The plant has an annual capacity of 360,000 cubic meters.

Onward Technologies Limited has set up another dedicated engineering design centre in Pune. The centre caters to the services across product and manufacturing engineering domains for a global manufacturing player in North America.

Fair trade regulator Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved the merger of Bharti Infratel and Indus Towers Ltd.

IDBI Bank's shares moved up 6 per cent after the Insurance Regulator Development Authority of India ( IRDAI) waved the green flag for the proposal allowing Life Insurance Corporation of India to buy upto 51 percent in the bank on Monday.

Following stocks are close to their 52-week low as at 12.52 p.m. on July 2, 2018.

The markets on July 2, 2018 opened up. BSE Sensex is trading at 35,130.90, down by 292.58 points and the Nifty is trading at 10,620.02, down by 94.25 points. 

Overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 48.77 lakh contracts with a turnover of Rs. 4,35,467.26 crore.

Overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 48.77 lakh contracts with a turnover of Rs. 4,35,467.26 crore.

BSE has announced entering into an agreement with Bombay Metal Exchange (BME) for the systematic development and growth of commodity derivatives markets in the Non-Ferrous Metals complex.