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Sensex nosedives over 700 points, Nifty ends below 10,500 mark (Third Lead)
Mumbai, Dec 10 (IANS) The Indian equity market slumped around two per cent on Monday, with the S&P BSE Sensex shedding over 700 points, tracking a similar sell-off globally along with uncertainties over the upcoming results of the recently held state elections.
The Nifty50 on the National Stock Exchange fell below the 10,500 mark and the Sensex ended below the psychologically significant level of 35,000 points.
On the domestic front, the results for the recently held assembly elections of five states would be out on Tuesday. Exits polls last week showed that the party in power — the Bharatiya Janata Party — is seen facing a tough challenge which has raised concerns among the investors.
The elections are considered a crucial indicator of public mood before the Lok Sabha elections in 2019.
In the global markets, crude oil prices rose on Monday after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and Russia on Friday agreed to reduce supplies from January 2019.
Further, there was a spike in trade war concerns after China on Sunday summoned US Ambassador Terry Branstad over the US arrest warrant for Huawei’s global CFO Meng Wanzhou who was taken into custody in Canada last week.
Index-wise, wider Nifty50 of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) closed lower by 205.25 points or 1.92 per cent to 10,488.45 points.
The barometer 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex), which opened at 35,204.66 points, closed at 34,959.72 points — lower by 713.53 points or two per cent — from its previous session’s close of 35,673.25 points.
It touched an intra-day high of 35,246.97 and a low of 34,915.77 points.
“Our markets have fallen in line with other global markets which were down due to resurgence of US-China friction and rise in crude prices,” HDFC Securities’ Retail Research Head Deepak Jasani told IANS.
On the currency front, the Indian rupee weakened to 71.38 against the US dollar from its previous close of 70.81.
“Dollar-rupee opened higher, around 71.35 on spot, after exit polls suggested that BJP may lose three major states,” said Anindya Banerjee, Deputy Vice President for Currency and Interest Rates with Kotak Securities.
“If exit polls are true, then it can increase the political risk premium on the rupee.”
Last Friday — the previous trade session — bargain hunting and lower crude oil prices lifted the key Indian equity market indices by around one per cent.
Consequently, the NSE Nifty50 had ended higher by 93 points or 0.87 per cent at 10,693.70 points, whereas the Sensex closed at 35,673.25 points, up 361.12 points or 1.02 per cent.
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International online casino Casino Days has published a report sharing their internal data on what types and brands of devices are used to play on the platform by users from the South Asian region.
Such aggregate data analyses allow the operator to optimise their website for the brands and models of devices people are actually using.
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Desktops and Tablets Lose the Battle vs Mobile
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Xiaomi and Vivo Outperform Samsung, Apple Way Down in Rankings
Chinese brands Xiaomi and Vivo were used by 21.9% and 20.79% of Casino Days players from South Asia respectively, and together with the positioned in third place with a 18.1% share South Korean brand Samsung dominate the market among real money gamers in the region.
Cupertino, California-based Apple is way down in seventh with a user share of just 2.29%, overshadowed by Chinese brands Realme (11.43%), OPPO (11.23%), and OnePlus (4.07%).
Huawei is at the very bottom of the chart with a tiny share just below the single percent mark, trailing behind mobile devices by Motorola, Google, and Infinix.
The data on actual phone usage provided by Casino Days, even though limited to the gaming parts of the population of South Asia, paints a different picture from global statistics on smartphone shipments by vendors.
Apple and Samsung have been sharing the worldwide lead for over a decade, while current regional leader Xiaomi secured their third position globally just a couple of years ago.
Striking Android Dominance among South Asian Real Money Gaming Communities
The shifted market share patterns of the world’s top smartphone brands in South Asia observed by the Casino Days research paper reveal a striking dominance of Android devices at the expense of iOS-powered phones.
On the global level, Android enjoys a comfortable lead with a sizable 68.79% share which grows to nearly 79% when we look at the whole continent of Asia. The data on South Asian real money gaming communities suggests that Android’s dominance grows even higher and is north of the 90% mark.
Among the major factors behind these figures, the authors of the study point to the relative affordability of and greater availability of Android devices in the region, especially when manufactured locally in countries like India and Vietnam.
“And, with influencers and tech reviews putting emphasis on Android devices, the choice of mobile phone brand and OS becomes easy; Android has a much wider range of products and caters to the Asian online casino market in ways that Apple can’t due to technical limitations,” the researchers add.
The far better integration achieved by Google Pay compared to its counterpart Apple Pay has also played a crucial role in shaping the existing smartphone market trends.
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