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Winning Strokes Photo : Yopriceville.com The Sensex and the Nifty logged modest gains on first trading day of the week. The barometer index, the S&P BSE Sensex, rose 112.78 points or 0.33% to settle at 34,305.43. The Nifty 50 index rose 47.75 points or 0.46% to settle at 10,528.35. The Sensex and the Nifty advanced for the eight straight trading session. Market sentiment got a boost after India's annual WPI-based inflation eased to 2.47% in March, helped by a fall in food prices. The Sensex and the Nifty, both, attained their highest closing levels in almost seven weeks. A bout of volatility was seen in early trade as the key benchmark indices cut losses after a gap-down opening triggered by negative Asian stocks. The Sensex regained the psychological 34,000 level soon after an initial slide pulled it below that level in opening trade. Stocks recovered further lost ground in morning trade. Indices extended losses in mid-morning trade on fresh selling in index pivota...

Market Pulse Firmness prevailed in early afternoon trade as key barometers continued marching upwards. At 12:22 IST, the barometer index, the S&P BSE Sensex, was up 192.81 points or 0.57% at 34,293.94. The Nifty 50 index was up 57.25 points or 0.55% at 10,515.90. Nifty was trading above the 10,500 mark. The broad market depicted strength as 1,487 shares rose and 925 shares fell on BSE. Among secondary barometers, the BSE Mid-Cap index was up 0.82%. The BSE Small-Cap index was up 0.72%. Both these indices outperformed the Sensex. The key indices opened higher and firmed up further as the session progressed. The Sensex rose 199.43 points, or 0.58% at the day's high of 34,300.56 in early afternoon trade, its highest intraday level since 28 February 2018. The index rose 53.81 points, or 0.16% at the day's low of 34,154.94 in early trade. The Nifty rose 57.90 points, or 0.55% at the day's high of 10,516.55 in early afternoon trade, its highest intraday level sinc...

TV Vision Ltd : Buy CMP: Rs.16.800 Book Value: Rs.34.54 Face Value: Rs.10 Market Cap: Rs.58.71 Cr Industry P/E: Rs.47.03 Introduction : After Sri Adhikari Brothers  (SAB) Group demerged all its various business verticals, in 2016, TV vision Ltd became a part of the Rs.2000 crore group. The group now has dedicated entities for movie production (parent SAB Group), television production (TV Vision) and events and publishing (SAB Events and Governance Now Media).  At present, TV vision Ltd comprises a bouquet of five channel broadcasting bouquet, namely Mastiii, Dabangg, Maiboli, Dhamaal Gujarat & Dillagi. It plans to add few more regional channels along with a mainstream Hindi GEC, in the near future. There were earlier media reports that SAB Group has earmarked Rs.400-500 crore on strengthening its broadcast and film business. Additionally, the company said it is building two state-of-the-art studios -- one near Sahar International Airpor...

Market Pulse The key benchmark indices drifted lower in early trade amid initial volatility. At 10.47 am, the Sensex was trading at 33,575.71 down 21.09 or 0.06%, while the Nifty was seen at 10,313.15 down12.00 or 0.12%. The S&P BSE Mid-Cap index was up 0.1%. The S&P BSE Small-Cap index was up 0.18%. Both these indices outperformed the Sensex. The market breadth, indicating the overall health of the market, was positive. On the BSE, 888 shares rose and 611 shares fell. A total of 49 shares were unchanged. Overseas, Asian stocks were trading mixed while US stock futures dropped after US President Donald Trump ordered his administration to consider tariffs on an additional $100 billion worth of Chinese imports. Mainland China markets are shut for a holiday. The latest move is a continuation of a growing trade dispute between the two countries. Trump previously announced $50 billion in proposed tariffs on goods imported from China, which responded by announci...