The markets on March 14, 2018 opened up. BSE Sensex is trading at 33,607.39, down by 249.39 points and the Nifty is trading at 10,344.80, down by 82.05 points.

Despite volatile market conditions, one more company is set to hit primary market on March 16, 2018. This time it is government-owned Navratna title conferred entity Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).

Leading construction company, IRB Infrastructure Developers (IRB), has won two projects under Hybrid Annuity Model in Tamil Nadu. This is also the first project for the company under Hybrid Annuity space.

Dynamic bond funds have always been the choice of investors in a falling interest rate scenario. However, the recent spike in bond yields turned the returns of these funds into red. In the last three months, these funds have given very poor returns.

Overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 1.01 crore contracts with a turnover of Rs. 8,95,731.16 crore.

Overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 1.01 crore contracts with a turnover of Rs. 8,95,731.16 crore.

Watch out for Bharti Airtel, Fortis Healthcare, IndusInd, Balarampur Chini

Previous day’s retreat in the second half of the session suggests that Indian markets may remain under pressure in today’s early session of trade. Further, weakness among global bourses would also drive the Indian markets down. SGX Nifty too is trailing down 0.4 per cent at 10387 at 7:17 hours IST. 

Adding to the company's fleet of innovation, packaging major Uflex launched its first in-house manufactured Gearless CI Flexo printing machines on Tuesday. Following the development, the share price of Uflex surged by nearly 7 per cent on BSE in the intraday trade on Tuesday. 

Pharma major, Lupin launched Tydemy Tablets (Drospirenone, Ethinyl Estradiol, Levomefolate Calcium and Levomefolate Calcium in the US market.