Today, the markets are likely to open in high spirits as India’s core sector posted a seven-month high growth of 6.7 per cent in June. Going ahead, investors would watch out for the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) policy announcement later in the day. Other data to be watched today will be Nikkei Manufacturing PMI data for the month of July and auto companies will be in focus as they will report their sales figures. 

The operating level profit turned positive with EBITDA of Rs. 20.67 crore as against operating loss of Rs. 3.41 crore in the corresponding quarter last year. The EBITDA margin for the quarter stood at 15.1 per cent.

Supreme Industries posted stable results for Q1FY18 on a QoQ basis. The company recorded exceptional gain on selling of its unit to a newly formed JV.

The stocks that are likely to witness significant movement on the bourses on August 1 include Bank of India, Dabur, Jindal Steel and Power, Cigniti Technologies and Tata Motors.

Kriti Industries reported tepid growth in top line with strong operational performances.

The profit during the quarter stood at Rs. 179.73 crore, registering a growth of about 43 per cent as against Rs. 125.32 crore recorded in the corresponding period of the previous year. The order book position of the company as on July 1, 2018 stood at Rs. 41,645 crore.

Texmaco Rail & Engineering Limited informed the bourses that its Rail EPC division has received an order of Rs. 521 crore for Bangalore Metro Rail Project - Phase 2.

The consolidated revenue for the quarter came in at Rs. 4,134 crore, registering 7.3 per cent yoy increase. This was primarily driven by rise in revenue from Agro activities and Non-Agro activities by 7.6 per cent and 7.3 per cent yoy, respectively.

In a volatile market, every investor is looking for good investment options to reap more and more returns. So post categorisation and reclassification of the MF schemes, SEBI has opened many doors for investment by introducing categories like balanced advantage fund.

Airlines operator stocks were being punished by investors in the first half of trade on Tuesday. Aviation bellwether stock, Interglobe Aviation reported an investor sentiment killer fall of 96.6 per cent dip in net profit.