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The iShares Ethereum Trust, which was registered last week and will be listed on Nasdaq if approved, will give investors access to ether - the second most popular cryptocurrency - without directly owning it.

“Today, we are in a situation where there are not too many issues about troubled assets or asset quality pains. In a way, it is a low credit cost, high credit growth environment which works very much in favour if you have the right amount of capital which is what some of these power finance companies have.”

Among the Sensex stocks, SBI, Bajaj Finance, Axis Bank, Bajaj Finserv, and HDFC Bank opened with cuts, while Asian Paints, M&M, Tata Motors, UltraTech Cement, and Maruti opened with gains.

Of the top 10 stocks that saw the highest increase in retail shareholders in the last one quarter, seven of them are part of the midcap and smallcap segments, and four of them belong to the public sector space, data by Prime Database showed.

Call writing is seen at 19900 then 20000 strikes while Put writing is seen at 19700 and then towards 19600 strikes.

“The Religare board has to state very clearly why it is opposing a large shareholder increasing its holding. The minority shareholders are affected and they are waiting and watching. SEBI needs to show some directions to both the board as well as the Burmans on what are the next steps. I think the open offer trigger would be passed and that is a very procedural matter. ”

The Future & Options contracts of any stock enter the ban period when the open interest (OI) on it crosses 95% of the market wide positions limits or MWPL.

PNC Infratech Ltd., incorporated in the year 1999, is a Mid Cap company (having a market cap of Rs 8083.55 Crore) operating in Infrastructure sector.

Action Construction Equipment, Jyothy Labs and ITD Cementation India - to give returns going up to 174% in the last one year.

"For the largecap ITs, maybe one or two quarters of more softness can probably be expected. Generally, the third quarter is expected to be a weak quarter with a lot of furloughs expected and client discretionary patterns expected in the fourth quarter as well. But they should bounce back very smartly and fill in the valuation gap that the midcap IT companies versus largecaps probably have."