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Indian equities may open higher on Thursday, tracking bullish trends in SGX Nifty Index Futures and positive cues from global peers. Overseas, the Asian stocks were trading higher, undermining a weak US session overnight, as investor sentiment were boosted after British Prime Minister Theresa May gained cabinet support for a Brexit deal, Reuters reported. Back home, bullish trends in the SGX Nifty Index Futures for November delivery, which were trading at 10,634.00, up by 33.00 points or 0.31 per cent, at 10:52 AM, Singapore Time, also indicated a positive start for local bourses. The market sentiment may also get support from easing crude prices and rebound in rupees. On the corporate front, shares of Tata Motors will remain in focus Moody’s downgraded its outlook on auto major to negative from stable due to weak performance of its UK-based subsidiary Jaguar Land Rover. On the earnings front, big names, such as Capri Global Capital, Garg Furnace, Rajnish Wellness, SREI Infra Finance, Sumeet Industries and Shree Ganesh Forgings, will release their earnings numbers today.

Trimming all its morning gains, the domestic equity market settled flat with negative bias on Wednesday. Despite a drop in global crude oil prices as well as a strengthening rupee, bulls were unable to cash in on from Tuesday’s momentum. Among individual stocks, shares of Sun Pharma dropped over 7 per cent to Rs 521 on BSE after the company posted a consolidated loss of Rs 2.18 billion for the quarter-ended September (Q2FY19), on account of a one-time loss of Rs 12.14 billion on Modafinil antitrust litigation. The 30-share benchmark index ended at 35141.99 down by 2.5 points or by 0.01 per cent, while the NSE Nifty was at 10576.3 down by 6.2 points or by 0.06 per cent.

Top traded Volumes on NSE Nifty were State Bank of India 52674807.00, ICICI Bank Ltd. 31774158.00, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. 29774003.00, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. 28107114.00, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. 25499010.00.

On NSE, total number of shares traded was 157.19 Crore and total turnover stood at Rs. 35973.53 Crore.

On NSE Future and Options, total number of contracts traded in index futures was 392712 with a total turnover of Rs. 25002.11 Crore. Along with this total number of contracts traded in stock futures were 1032802 with a total turnover of Rs. 59909.02 Crore. Total numbers of contracts for index options were 15684355 with a total turnover of Rs. 864732.97 Crore and total numbers of contracts for stock options were 843143 with a total turnover of Rs. 50630.15 Crore.

As on November 14, 2018, the FIIs stood as net buyer in equity market, but net seller in debt segment. Gross equity purchased stood at Rs. 4933.88 Crore and gross debt purchased stood at Rs. 1198.39 Crore, while the gross equity sold stood at Rs. 4000.80 Crore and gross debt sold stood at Rs. 1461.61 Crore. Therefore, the net investment of equity and debt reported were Rs. 933.08 Crore and Rs. -263.22.