First Trade: Nifty climbs to 25,152; Coforge up over 2%

Indian equities in today's session started trade on a strong note mirroring positive developments overseas. At the open, Nifty climbed to 25,152 levels, up 0.19 per cent or 48.9 points, while the Sensex gained 0.18 per cent to 82,595.87.

Stocks in news

Q4 Results:

Borana Weaves: The company in the cash market will announce its Q4 earnings today.

Suraksha Diagnostics: The lock in on 42 per cent of the outstanding shares to open.

Ex-date:

Asian Paints as well as Indian Bank will go ex-date today for their final dividend of Rs 20.5 and Rs 16.25 per share, respectively.

Asian markets

Most regional markets in Asia saw good buying amid buoyancy over ongoing US-China trade talks. As per reports, the US President Donald Trump was considering doing away with the chip export restrictions against Bejing. The key MSCI Asia ex Japan index was up 0.78 per cent as at the last count.

China’s Shanghai Shenzhen CSI 300 and Shanghai Composite indexes rose marginally, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng added 0.1 per cent.

High-level China-US trade talks commenced in London on Monday, sparking hopes that the biggest economies will deescalate their ongoing tussle.world’s biggest economies will further deescalate their bitter trade conflict, after signing a temporary truce in May.