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Prices of Barley closed low by 1.08 per-cent yesterday at the National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Limited (NCDEX) as the investors booked profits at the higher on account of the weak physical markets and also due to the fell down in the requirement from beer and cattle-feed makers.

The edible oil industry has endorsed the govt to increase the import duty on both crude & refined oil, along with setting aside a portion of the revenue earned to set up an Oilseeds Development Fund to increase native production.

Today, the 30-share index was trading at 25,965,went up 5 points or 0.02 per-cent. It reached a high of 26000.24 & a low of 25,953.25 in early morning trade.

Nifty futures updates : Today, Sensex was trading near 25,713, went up by 90 points or 0.35 per-cent. It attained a high of 25,766.76 & a low of 25,697.22 in early morning trade.

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Share tips - The broader market traded in line with the benchmark indices with the BSE midcap and smallcap indices trading lower by 0.61 and 0.32 per cent, respectively. Today, the rupee dropped 18 paise to hit its lowest level to 68.56 against the USDr since Sep 4, 2014, in early trade amid weak cues from Asian currency markets.

Japan's core machinery orders rose at a slower-than-assumed pace in December but companies hopes orders to accelerate in January-March, an encouraging sign that industry is ready to increase spending. Click for Commodity tips

Air India announced two special schemes for passengers, which could enable them to ring in 2016 year in style. The promotional offers are New Year Special & Lucky 1st.Click For Commodity tips

Previous Year 2015 saw Indian investors & traders move away from the trend of investing in physical assets such as real estate & gold said by Nilesh Shah, MD(managing director) of Kotak Mahindra Asset Management. Instead the focus was more on equities current year. He estimates this will continue in 2016 year as well.

Share tips & currency updates : Cracking a 2-day losing streak, the INR(rupee) went high by 18 paise to 66.75 in early trade on yesterday, as Asian currencies recovered amid reports that the Chinese central bank, PBoC, was intervening to support the tumbling yuan.

RCom - "Reliance Communications" is going to talk with shareholders of telecom operator Aircel for a potential merger of the wireless or mobile businesses for both of the companies. The idea is to mutually derive estimated substantial benefits of in-country consolidation, including operating expenditure (opex) & capital expenditure synergies & revenue enhancement, RCom told in a statement.

Today's news : Asian equities delivered some last-minute Christmas cheer, continuing to rally on the last full trading day of the week before the holiday. Oil prices recovery boosted energy stocks in the areas, with US crude nearly 1 per-cent high in Asia trading following a 4 per-cent rally overnight.