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Thank you readers and before we sign off from this edition of the market blog, here are the major highlights from the markets today:

-Market slips for 2nd consecutive session to end at over 2-week lows
-Nifty closes 97 points lower at 11,921 after breaching 11,900 intra-day
-Sensex 507 points off opening highs to close with a cut of 334 points
-Financials contribute over 50% to Nifty fall; HDFC & SBI top losers
-All sectoral indices close in the red; PSU Bank, Media top losers
-40 Nifty stocks close in the red with YES Bank & SBI being top losers
-YES BANK down 19% this week, biggest weekly fall in nearly 3 months
-Vodafone Idea falls 5% as KM Birla says ‘will shut shop in absence of relief’
-Sensex & Nifty slip 1% each after gaining for two consecutive sessions 
-Nifty Bank down 2% this week to snap 8-week gaining streak 

Indian shares ended sharply lower on Friday, dragged down by auto, bank and consumer names. The benchmark 30-share S&P BSE Sensex tumbled 334 points, or 0.82 percent, to settle at 40,445. The broader NSE Nifty50 also ended below the psychological level of 12,000, dipping 104 points, or 0.87 percent, to 11,914.

The stock price of Vascon Engineers rallied 7 percent intraday on Friday after the company received an order worth Rs 132.69 crore from the Airports Authority of India (AAI). 

Vascon Engineers received a work order from AAI for the work of extension of exiting terminal building at Goa airport, Dabolim. The company will design and build the airport's civil mechanical electrical plumbing, firefighting, airport systems, furniture among other works. 

The work has to be completed within 21 months from the date of issue of work order. 

Sensex plunges 380 points to 40,397.07 levels in Friday's trading session after most heavyweights traded in the red. Out of 30 BSE shares, only 6 traded in the green while others plunged up to 9 percent. 

YES Bank's shares plunged the most, over 9 percent intraday while Tata Motors and SBI traded over 3 percent. 

Meanwhile, Sun Pharma, ITC, L&T, Maruti Suzuki and HDFC traded over 1 percent lower. 

The Nifty50 index plunged over 100 points in Friday's trading session after a massive selling spree. Moreover, all sectoral indices turned red with Nifty PSU Bank as the worst-performing sector. 

Central Bank, Union Bank, Bank of Baroda and SBI dragged the Nifty PSU Bank by falling over 4 percent.

Nifty Media fell 3.96 percent due to heavy losses in Dish TV, which plunged nearly 17 percent. 

The least affected sector was Nifty Metal which traded 0.60 percent down. 

Fitch Ratings on CNBC-TV18 further said:

1. AGR dues of over Rs 44,000 crore is a big challenge for Vodafone Idea
2. Will be a challenge for Vodafone Idea to raise such a large sum of money from banks
3. The real issue is whether the government provides any relief on interest on penalties
4. Any relief will be positive for the telecom sector
5. Tariff hikes undertook not enough to recover cash generation for telcos
6. Vodafone Idea is in a weak position to even honour bank loans
7. Vodafone Idea shutting shop will result in job losses
8. Subscriber losses at Vodafone Idea benefitting Jio more than Bharti

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) panel is mulling various methods to boost revenue collections, among which one suggestion is to raise the 5 percent tax slab to 6 percent, as per a Business Standard report.

The slab-restructuring is expected to bring in additional revenue of Rs 1,000 crore per month, amid dismal collection numbers, the paper added. The panel may meet in mid-December to consult with states and GST officials.

The share price of Maruti Suzuki slipped over a percent on Friday after the carmaker announced to recall its petrol hybrid car variants.

India's largest four-wheeler manufacturer decided to recall 63,493 petrol-hybrid variants of Ciaz, Ertiga and XL-6 models to rectify faults that may be potential safety defects.

In its press release, it also said, "In the interest of its customers, Maruti Suzuki has decided to proactively recall the vehicles for inspection and those found OK will be released immediately. Vehicles requiring replacement of faulty parts will be retained for part replacement free of cost. Keeping in view customer convenience, Maruti Suzuki dealers may make alternate mobility arrangements in such cases, if required."

At 1:28 pm, the share price was trading 1.14 percent lower at Rs 6,912.50 per share on the NSE. 

Shares of Vodafone Idea plunged over 6 percent after its chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla said that the company will have to be closed down if the government doesn't provide relief that the company has sought.

The stock touched an intraday low of Rs 6.66 as against the previous close of Rs 7.31 on the BSE.

"We will have to shut shop," Birla told CNBC-TV18 at the Hindustan Times leadership summit when asked about the course of action for the company going ahead in the absence of government relief.

Birla indicated that his group will not invest any money in the company in the absence of relief from the government.

"Don’t think I can call telecom business a failure," Birla added.

"There is no sense that good money should follow bad money," he said.

Birla said the company will have to opt for insolvency route in the absence of relief.

Vodafone Idea had reported a record loss of Rs 50,921 crore for the September quarter after making a provision for the Supreme Court’s ruling on payment of average gross revenue (AGR) dues.

Company’s revenue from operations during the quarter plunged to Rs 10,844 crore from Rs 22,114 crore YoY.

Vodafone Idea hiked tariffs for its pre-paid plans effective from December 3, a first in past four years, under which call and data charges will be dearer by up to 42 percent.

The stock price of Mahindra & Mahindra fell 2.28 percent intraday on Friday after the company reported increased car production but poor sales in the month of November. 

The company's car production rose 6.39 percent YoY to 41,846 units in November while the sales declined 8.43 percent YoY to 38,053 units. 

At 12:01 pm, the shares were trading 2.10 percent lower to Rs 513.75 per share on the NSE. 

The share price of VST Tillers Tractors slipped 2 percent on Friday after the tractor company reported weak November sales data.

Intraday, the shares were trading 2 percent lower at Rs 1,072.45 per share on the NSE.

The company's power tillers fell 41 percent YoY to 1,238 units v/s 2,108 units in the corresponding quarter last year. Tractors slipped 9.5 percent YoY to 568 units as compared to 628 units last year. 

Shares of Gati Ltd fell over 4 percent on Friday after integrated logistics solutions provider acquired controlling stake in the company for Rs 416 crore.
According to the deal, Allcargo Logistics will buy up to 1,03,85,332 equity shares of Gati Ltd at Rs 75 per share from some of the existing members of the Promoter and Promoter Group of Gati – Mahendra Kumar Agarwal, Mahendra Investment Advisors Pvt Ltd and TCI Finance Ltd (TCI), and Gati.

The share price slipped 5.45 percent intraday at Rs 62.40 per share on the NSE.

The good news is that the bull market is intact and it never went away, said Ramesh Damani, Member BSE. While a lot of pain has been felt in the smallcap and midcap stocks, so it felt like a bear market but by the technical definition we were never in a bear market,” he added.

"This bull market that began in 2013 is intact, it is just going through a lot of growing pains," he said in an interview with CNBC-TV18 celebrating its 20th birthday.

Talking about macroeconomic data, Damani said, “I spend my career trying to bottom-fish stocks and not worry too much about the macroeconomic ability. In 1999, the index was around 4,000 or so level, just on the edge of the big tech boom and today we are 40,000. So it has been a 10x move in the index over the last 20 years or so. So the pickings are by remaining bullish and staying invested rather than trying to overly do complex analysis of macroeconomic data.”

Talking about CNBC-TV18 completing 20 years, he said, “One thing that defines the 20 years that we saw together was the rise of tech and the rise of telecom in India. I think that transformed India."

According to him, despite all odds, India’s economy has been a rewarding journey for investors.

Keki Mistry on CNBC-TV18 further said: 
1. Structural demand for housing remains very strong
2. Scope to cut rates going ahead is very limited
3. No one expected a failure of a large institution like IL&FS
4. IL&FS shook the market when it happened in September 2018
5. The market is a lot more prepared to deal with accidents now than it was earlier

The share price of YES Bank slipped 5 percent intraday on Friday after Moody's downgraded the Bank's credit rating. It also assigned negative outlook to the company. 

At 9:30 am, the shares were trading 4.43 percent or 2.75 points lower to Rs 59.35 per share on the NSE while on an intraday basis, the share price slipped 4.83 percent at Rs 59.10. 

Moody's Investors Service in its report said that the negative outlook primarily reflected the risk of further deterioration in the bank's solvency, funding or liquidity, if the bank is unable to recapitalize itself within the next few quarters. 

The rating agency downgraded Yes Bank Limited's long-term foreign-currency issuer rating to B2 from Ba3. 

The report further added that the lender's stressed assets related issues will add pressure to its funding and liquidity, creating additional risks to its standalone credit profile.

The Indian Rupee opened a little higher at 71.26 v/s Thursday's close of 71.28. This was on the back of RBI promising to maintain its accommodative stance on the repo rate at 5.15 percent.

The repo rate has been cut five times this year, totaling 1.35 percent or 135 basis points. 

“This is an axiom on Dalal Street that before you invest you need to investigate what you do and thanks to the plethora of shows that CNBCTV18 produces every day from your benchmark programme ‘Bazaar’ hosted so well by Latha Venkatesh, Sonia Shenoy and Anuj Singhal to ‘India Business Hour’ that Shereen Bhan does. You give investors an ability to make more informed choices and that’s the real celebration that we do on Dalal Street that we have information that we didn’t have maybe 20 years back. Thank you for that and here’s wishing you not only a very happy 20th birthday but as the new decade dawns many more informative decades ahead for all of you.”

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