Govt launches new trade info portal, HUL-Kwality Wall's demerger, & more - Groww Digest
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Markets opened below yesterday’s closing point.
Nifty 50 rose throughout the day and closed in the green.
IT stocks and PSU bank stocks rose the most today. Oil and gas stocks and realty stocks fell the most.
Global markets: US markets and most Asian markets fell. Most European markets rose (as of 6 pm IST).
News
The central government launched the Trade Intelligence and Analytics (TIA) portal to give businesses better access to trade data.
Tata Projects signed an MoU with ASI Global to jointly design and build state-of-the-art aircraft MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul) and hangar facilities in India.
Excelsoft Technologies IPO has been subscribed 1.45 times. Retail subscription: 1.85 times. IPO closes on 21 Nov.
Tenneco Clean Air IPO listed on the stock exchanges at a premium of 27.20% over the issue price and closed 23.63% up at the end of the day.
Stocks Updates
L&T: and BAE Systems won an Indian Army contract to locally manufacture BvS10 Sindhu all-terrain vehicles.
NTPC Green: declared commercial operation of 75.5 MW from its 1,255 MW Khavda-I solar project in Gujarat.
Adani Energy: received a letter of intent from PFC Consulting to build a 2,500 MW HVDC transmission system for evacuating 8 GW renewable power from Khavda, Gujarat.
Aditya Birla Capital: issued non-convertible debentures worth Rs 175 crore at an 8.03% interest rate, maturing in 2035, through private placement.
Hindustan Unilever: fixed 1 Dec as the effective date for the demerger of its ice-cream business ‘Kwality Wall’s (India)’. It also fixed 5 Dec as the record date for share allotment (1:1 ratio).
Adani Enterprises: was declared the successful bidder to acquire Jaiprakash Associates under insolvency.
Dabur: received a favorable Income Tax Appellate Tribunal order reducing its tax demand from Rs 110.33 crore to Rs 50.96 crore, already under appeal.
Word of the Day
Purchasing Power
It is the ability of your money to buy goods and services
When prices rise, the purchasing power falls because the same amount of money buys fewer things.
Similarly, if prices fall, the purchasing power increases because the same amount of money buys more things.
Example: say you could buy a litre of milk for Rs 50 last year. This year the same litre of milk costs Rs 60. Your purchasing power has decreased because your Rs 50 can no longer buy the same amount of goods.
Inflation reduces the purchasing power of a currency over time.
6 Day Course
Theme: different kinds of buyers/sellers in share market
Day 3: Wednesday
DIIs — Domestic Institutional Investors.
Just like FPIs, these investors are also institutional investors like mutual funds, insurance companies, alternate investment funds, banks, etc.
What makes them different is that DIIs are based in India.
These investors are also usually very stable in their investment style.
Their investment size is also large enough to influence the markets and move them.
Since they are investing in the Indian markets with Indian money, exchange rates do not affect them as much.
Domestic factors play a huge role in their decisions. Inflation, GDP growth, demographic trends, interest rates, demand growth, etc are some examples.
Often, FPIs and DIIs are seen investing in a similar manner.
But many times, they do the opposite. Many times when FPIs are selling and withdrawing money from the Indian markets, the DIIs end up buying at that time.
Similar to FPIs, many investors like keeping an eye on DIIs too.
Featured Question
“Why do most of the foreign mutual funds or etfs from Indian fund houses tend to give very low returns when compared to those investing in Indian companies .”
‘Foreign mutual funds’ is a very broad category.
Different mutual funds invest in different regions and follow different themes.
It might happen that some of those regions’ stocks are not performing as well as Indian stocks.
It is also possible that a certain foreign market might not perform well.
Another factor to note is that different markets can perform well in different periods. They do not always perform in sync.
So maybe at another time, Indian stocks would be performing poorly while some foreign mutual funds perform well.
It must be mentioned though that the Indian markets have consistently performed better than many other foreign markets.
This is why many foreign investors also opt to invest in the Indian stock markets.
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The HUL Kwality Wall's demerger anouncement with the Dec 5 record date is interesting timing. Spining off the ice cream business could unlock value since it operates with diffrent margins than the rest of the FMCG portfolio. Also apreciate the DII explanation, the point about them often buying when FPIs are selling adds important context for understanding Indian market resilience.