Indian markets traded with strong gains, with the Nifty recording
a fresh all-time high but closing marginally short of the 8,500 mark it has
never scaled.
The Sensex rose 0.95 percent, or 267 points to end at
record closing high of 28,334 while the Nifty jumped 0.9 percent, or 75 points
to 8,477.
Banks led the charge all day with Kotak Mahindra Bank
rising 3.67 percent to hit a record high after it announced a USD 2.5 billion
worth all-share merger deal with ING Vysya that would make it India’s fourth
largest private bank behind ICICI, HDFC and Axis. ICICI (up 2.53 percent) too
hit fresh lifetime highs.
Brokerages were largely positive on the
Kotak-ING deal with many saying that while it may immediately pressure some of
Kotak’s metrics such as return on equity, it would help it in the long term by
boosting its presence in the South where ING is focused, as well as by
incorporating its SME lending book.
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