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4 min read | Updated on December 04, 2024, 13:07 IST
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At 12:55 pm, the S&P BSE SENSEX was trading at 80,954.96 levels, up 109 points, or 0.14%, while the NSE's NIFTY50 index was trading at 24,465.45, up 8 points, or 0.03%.
Shares of Mamaearth-parent Honasa Consumer hit 10% upper circuit on Wednesday after the company's co-founder Varun Alagh increased his stake in the personal care product firm.
At 12:55 pm, the S&P BSE SENSEX was trading at 80,954.96 levels, up 109 points, or 0.14%, while the NSE's NIFTY50 index was trading at 24,465.45, up 8 points, or 0.03%.
The initial public offering of NTPC Green Energy Ltd got subscribed 2.40 times on the closing day of the share sale on Friday.
The ₹10,000-crore share sale had a price band of ₹102-₹108 per share.
The stock rose 10% to 287.85 apiece, its upper circuit limit, on the NSE, taking the market capitalisation to ₹9,350.06 crore.
Varun Alagh, co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Honasa Consumer, has brought additional equity shares worth ₹4.5 crore in the company, taking his stake to 31.93% from 31.88% earlier.
With this, Varun and his wife, Ghazal Alagh, together hold a 35% stake in the company.
Swiggy reported a narrowing of loss at ₹625.53 crore on a consolidated basis in the second quarter ended September, down from ₹657 crore logged in the year-ago period.
The company declared its quarterly results to the stock exchanges for the first time since it went public last month.
The stock rallied as the company announced that its board has approved the opening of the issue of qualified institutional placement (QIP) of equity shares with a floor price of ₹827.85 per share.
The company's board authorised and declared the opening of the issue on Tuesday, 3 December 2024.
The floor price of ₹829.74 is at a premium of 0.23% to the previous day's closing price of ₹827.85 on the BSE.
On the National Stock Exchange, the stock rose as much as 15.1% to ₹94.37 apiece, which is its all-time high level since listing last month.
According to news reports, China's decision to impose a stricter review of its graphite exports to the US and ban graphite dual-use commodities Germanium and Gallium in principle, which will lead to a potential supply scare, is the main trigger behind the rally in graphite electrode manufacturers.
The state-run lender posted a 50% jump in its net profit to ₹603 crore at the end of the second quarter of the current fiscal.
The Kolkata-headquartered lender had recorded ₹402 crore in the year-ago period.
A statement by the bank said the operating profit at the end of the July-September period touched ₹1,432 crore, registering a growth of 45.82% year-on-year.
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