Sensex ends 34 points, Nifty ends above 18,701

The Sensex ended up falling for the second consecutive session on Monday, as a result of a fall in IT and pharma stocks. Sensex slipped 34 points to end at 62,834 and Nifty gained 5 points to close at 18,701. Reliance Industries 1.46% Tech Mahindra 1.33% UltraTech Cement 0.76% Dr Reddy's 73% Axis Bank 0.61% and Bharti Airtel 0.58% were among the top Sensex losers.

Tata Steel 3.35% NTPC 1.66% SBI 1.58% IndusInd Bank 1.38% and PowerGrid 0.61% were among the top Sensex gainers.

Here's a look at stocks that are likely to remain in news today.

HDFC: Life Insurance Corporation of India, the country's largest insurer, has increased its stake in HDFC to over 5 per cent after the acquisition of shares from the open market. LIC increased its stake in the company to 5.003 per cent after buying 1.2 lakh shares from the open market.

TVS Motor Company: A promoter entity, Srinivasan Trust, sold 25,69, 726 shares or 0.54 per cent of two wheeler players at an average price of 1,020. An open market transaction will result in a price of 03 apiece for Rs 262 crore.

Rainbow Children's Medicare: British International Investment sold its entire 14.45 per cent stake or 1,46, 66,112 shares in the multi-speciality pediatric hospital chain at an average price of Rs 735 apiece for an estimated 1,078. According to the bulk deal data available with the NSE, 48 crore are made through open market transactions.

JSW Energy: The utility firm said that its arm JSW ReNew Energy has commissioned 27 MW of wind energy generation capacity at Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu as part of the first phase of its 450 MW wind project.

IRB Infrastructure Developers: The civil construction company and its InvIT subsidiary IRB Infrastructure Trust reported a 39 per cent increase in the toll collection in November 2022 on year-on-year basis. The company reported toll collection in November is Rs 365.95 crore.

Tata Motors will raise passenger vehicle prices next month in order to make its model range compliant with stricter emission norms which kick in from April 1 next year. Kalpataru Power Transmission: The board of directors will hold a meeting to discuss fund raising via NCDs on private placement basis on December 8.

The construction and engineering company Ahluwalia Contracts India has won the order for the construction of 5,000 seating capacity public auditorium in Guwahati from PWD, Dispur, Guwahati Assam The contract is worth Rs 174.88 crore and takes order inflow during FY 23 to Rs 3,962. There are 24 crore till date.

Bajaj Consumer Care: The board of directors of the FMCG company will consider a proposal for the buyback of equity shares of the company on December 9.

BCL Industries: The edible oil company received an order worth Rs 285 crore for supply of 4.9 crore litres of ethanol to oil marketing companies. Its distillery arm has won an order to supply 1.65 crore litres of ethanol to Reliance Industries with an order value of Rs 107 crore.