On the downside, the zone of 10,650-10,700 will act as a strong support zone as Nifty has cluster of support placed in this region. Stocks in news: JSW Steel, HCL Technologies, KPIT Technologies, Karnataka Bank, AstraZeneca Pharma India, Havells and Astral Poly Technik.

The Indian stock markets are likely to see a cautious opening as cues from the Asian peers are adverse on the back of the lingering concerns of trade war and OPEC meeting outcome. The Nifty 50 index futures on the Singapore stock exchange are currently trading with loss of 28 points at 10,705.  

As trade war deepens across the globe, India doesn’t want to stay back wounded. Hike in import tariffs levied by India will counter the increased import duty imposed by the US on steel and aluminium imports. The tariff will be in place from August 4.

Crude oil is the most important commodity for the Indian economy. The OPEC meeting in Vienna will decide the future output. Read on to find how it will impact Indian economy.

The stock of Manpasand Beverages surged on Thursday as the company's board considers dividend payout for FY18. The company's Q4 results will be announced on June 27.

Arvind is planning to expand its textiles business to Rs. 10,000 crore by 2023, from Rs. 6,000 crore now. This will be achieved through verticalisation, more garmenting, ramping up advanced materials division which is into specialised textiles and adopting newer technologies.

Despite lull market conditions, the two open IPOs continued to received investor interest on Thursday, the second day of subscription. The Initial Public Offering (IPO) of state-owned railway engineering company RITES Limited and additive chemical major Fine Organics are open for subscription until Friday, June 22, 2018.

Following stocks are close to their 52-week low as at 12.52 p.m. on June 21, 2018.

The markets on June 21, 2018 opened up. BSE Sensex is trading at 35,526.86, down by 20.47 points and the Nifty is trading at 10,762.95, down by 9.10 points. 

Overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 93.10 lakh contracts with a turnover of Rs. 8,87,651.18 crore.