Market Pre-Opening Podcast on April 24, 2018

The Nifty50 is expected to open flat on Tuesday tracking muted trend seen in other Asian markets. The index closed 20 point higher at 10,584 on Monday.

Trends on SGX Nifty indicate a negative opening for the broader index in India, a fall of 47 points or 0.44 percent. Nifty futures were trading around 10,575-level on the Singapore Stock Exchange.

Wall Street ended mixed on Monday as concerns about soft smartphone demand weighed on tech stocks and pulled the Nasdaq lower while earnings optimism protected against deeper losses, said a Reuters report.

Asian stocks slipped and the US dollar advanced on Tuesday, as a deluge of US government debt this week and the specter of inflation and a higher fiscal deficit drove US borrowing costs near four-year highs, it said.