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The stock quoted a 52-week high price of Rs 442.95 and low of Rs 274.0.

Analysts said the share price of Adani Wilmar is skyrocketing due to two primary factors: Ruchi Soya FPO injecting new life into the edible oil segment of FMCG industry, and palm oil prices appreciating by 14 per cent, providing a margin boost to the company’s unsold inventory.

ICICI Prudential Life Insurance’s EVP Jitendra Arora’s advice for investors is to keep a cool head amid such volatile markets. “Investors should not react to noise around these factors while making their investment decisions. They should continue with their regular premium payments and not take any extreme steps,” Arora said in an interview to ETMarkets.com.

“The bigger theme at a portfolio level is inflation proofing and making sure the sectors that we own have margin and pricing power. A lot of margin compression could hit the Street over the next two quarters and one must look for pockets of valuation comfort and pricing power. We believe dollar denominated plays such as IT, specialised pharma, commodities could do better.”

“ I will be a bit cautious. I have been maintaining my view that if I have to play the auto and the auto growth of the future, I will go and like to play it through the auto ancillary and in that space, leading auto ancillary companies like Motherson Sumi, Bharat Forge and Minda Industries can be picked up.”

Tech Mahindra Ltd., incorporated in the year 1986, is a Large Cap company (having a market cap of Rs 146593.05 Crore) operating in IT Software sector.

Aarti Drugs Ltd., incorporated in the year 1984, is a Small Cap company (having a market cap of Rs 4405.91 Crore) operating in Pharmaceuticals sector.

Epsilon Carbon has tied up with US-based The Metals Company to study the feasibility of extracting rare metals used in lithium-ion cells from deep-sea mining as part of its ambition to become a top supplier to companies manufacturing cells for electric vehicles (EV) in India.

Pfizer will provide grants of up to Rs 65 lakh and two years of incubation support through the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and other top academic institutions to six startups, starting with three in the first year.

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced in her February 1 budget speech that the government will issue sovereign green bonds in FY23 as part of its overall market borrowing to mobilise resources for green infrastructure.