Pre-market: Positive opening seen for markets 31/03/2015

Extending its positive momentum, the BSE’s 30-share bellwether index- Sensex is expected to open in green on Tuesday. Following positive cues from the US stocks, most of the Asian markets also opened higher today, barring Nikkei 225 and Straits Times that were trading marginally lower by 2.30 and 8.15 points respectively. 

On the other hand, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was trading up by 133 points at 24,988; Taiwan Index was at 9,551, up by nearly 30 points; KOSPI was at 2,034, up by around 5 points; and China’s Shanghai Composite was trading up by 15 points at 3,802 in the early trading session. 

Pre-market: Positive opening seen for markets: 23/02/2015

Ahead of the beginning of Budget Session in the Parliament today, the Indian benchmark indices are likely to open in green. The risk taking appetite of investors is further likely to be motivated by the positive cues across the global markets. In the previous trading session, US markets closed higher after Greece received one more lifeline as the Euro-group agreed to extend the bailout package by 4 months.