- Investors are placing bets ahead of next week's election results which are expected to show a win for the opposition party's Narendra Modi and the worst-ever defeat for the ruling Congress Party amid a wave of graft scandals, rising inflation, and slowing growth.
- The Sensex - up 2.9% last night - is ahead by 17% since the opposition BJP party named Modi as its PM candidate last September.
- Leading last night's advance was ICICI Bank (IBN +5.2% premarket). HDFC Bank (HDB +2.9% premarket)
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