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"We expect a reminder that more tightening is needed and there is still a lot of progress to be done on inflation, but no explicit commitment to a specific rate hike action for September," said Jan Nevruzi, an analyst at NatWest Markets.

The bill further mandates the competition watchdog to form a prima facie opinion within 20 days of the receipt of notice. According to Gupta, these tweaks are in line with the antitrust regulator’s current practices as the average number of days to approve M&As that don’t have any adverse competition impact is currently 17 days.

After hitting a peak of ₹14.16 lakh crore in the first quarter of fiscal 2022, assets under management for the fixed-income category has been on a steady decline and since then the asset base has fallen by 13%.

In the coming months, FPI flows are to remain volatile. However, with the fading concerns of rising inflation, tightening of monetary policy and performance of first quarter earnings, inflows are likely to improve in emerging markets, said Shrikant Chouhan, head-equity research (retail) at Kotak Securities.

Investors will be paying close attention to comments by Fed Chair Jerome Powell when he addresses an annual global central banking conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday.

Insurance behemoth LIC witnessed a decline of nearly 20 per cent in death claims in the first quarter of this fiscal with the COVID impact seen to be ebbing, though the amount is still higher than pre-2020 levels.

From the options space, significant Call writing can be seen at ATM strikes with total open interest of more than 1 cr shares at both 17900 and 18000 Call strikes. For the first time during the series, we are witnessing higher Call writing than the Put bases. Hence one can expect some consolidation below 18000 during settlement and fresh up leg might be seen only if Nifty moves above these levels.

"Vijay Shekhar Sharma has made several commitments in the past to make Paytm profitable, however these have not played out. We believe the board must consider professionalising the management," IIAS had said in its note to shareholders.

"I am mostly an option seller these days. Earlier, I used to trade with small capital and so I used to buy. Now my capital has increased. Option selling requires more capital but gives me mental peace. Besides a crypto portfolio, I have made a bank FD which gives me enough interest to take care of my monthly expenses. I also follow the principle of not having more than 20% of my total funds in my demat account. "

The statement comes in the wake of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) planning to achieve water and carbon neutrality by 2035 and 2040, respectively.