Investors can trade in CDSL from today

Central Depository Services (CDSL) is to hit the Indian exchanges today. The stock is the first depository to get listed on bourses in the country. The stock's grey market premium is around Rs 90-100 per share, indicating a listing of around Rs 225-250 per share, reported a leading news agency. The issue price for the IPO stood at Rs 149 per share.
 
What can be called as the most popular initial public offering (IPO) of 2017, the BSE promoted CDSL IPO was oversubscribed by 170.16 times. This made it the most subscribed IPO issue of 2017 in the Indian capital markets.
 
The qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) bid 148.71 times, retail individual investors bid 23.83 times and employees segment have received bids for 1.46 times for the Central Depository Services Limited (CDSL) IPO. The demand for the IPO was led by the non-institutional investors, who bid 563.03 times.
 
The objectives of the issue include achieving the benefits of listing the equity shares on NSE and to enhance its visibility and brand image and provide liquidity to its existing shareholders.

Opening Bell – Nifty, Sensex open slightly lower ahead of GST rollout

At 9:15 AM, the BSE Sensex opened higher by 33 points at 30824, while the Nifty50 opened lower by 26 points at 9478 mark.

Bank of Baroda is the top Nifty gainer and Tech Mahindra is the top Nifty loser in the morning hours. 
 
There are 499 advances, 914 declines and 494 unchanged stocks on NSE reflecting a negative bias floating in the market.
 
Now, going forward, Nifty50 has immediate support placed around 9,450, and if it holds below 9,450 it may trigger fresh selling towards the levels of 9,420 and then 9,400, while, on the upside, resistances are seen in the zone of 9,550-9,560.
 
The rupee opened at 64.72 per US dollar depreciated by 9 paise. On Thursday, the rupee closed at a one month low of 64.63 against the US dollar after local equity markets erased all the gains and ended little change ahead of the rollout of good and services tax from 1 July.
 
The US stocks plunged on Thursday, with the S&P 500 and Dow Industrial registering their worst one-day declines since May as the technology sector continued its sell-off. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 168 points to 21,287. The S&P 500 index slipped 21 point to 2,420. The Nasdaq Composite Index tumbled 90 points to 6,144.
 
Asian stocks fell in early trade on Friday, following a sell-off in the US market. Japan’s Nikkei 225 has slipped 239 points; Hong Kong’s Hang Seng has lost 286 points, while China’s Shanghai Composite has shed 8 points.