Indian stocks to watch-April 17

April 17 (Reuters) - * Nifty futures traded on the Singapore

Exchange are up 0.25 percent, while the MSCI (NYSE: MSCI - news) -Asia

Pacific excluding Japan index is up 0.27

percent.

* Asian share markets eked out gains on Thursday as dovish

comments from the head of the U.S. Federal Reserve combined with

an upbeat economic assessment from the central bank to lift Wall

Street for a third straight session.

* U.S. stocks rose 1 percent on Wednesday, advancing for a third

straight session as Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen

reaffirmed the central bank's commitment to keeping interest

rates low and Yahoo (TLO: YA-U.TI - news) rallied.

KEY EVENTS/FACTORS TO WATCH

* India's third-ranked IT services exporter Wipro (BSE: WIPRO.BO - news) and

its smaller rival HCL Technologies (BSE: HCLTECH.BO - news) will post Q4

results.

* S&P webinar on creditworthiness of India's sovereign,

corporates

INDIAN STOCKS TO WATCH

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NOTE (Stockholm: NOTE.ST - news) : Reuters has not verified third-party stories and does

not vouch for their accuracy.

India's Tata Consultancy sees stronger sales growth this

year

KKR (Frankfurt: A1C10P - news) , Blackstone (NYSE: BX - news) eye stake in Idea - Business Standard

(http://link.reuters.com/muz58v)

Cairn Energy (LSE: CNE.L - news) seeks shareholder nod to sell Cairn India stake

- PTI in Economic Times (http://link.reuters.com/juz58v)

U.S. calls for more investment-friendly Indian government

Oil India said to plan bid for $2 billion Murphy Malaysia

assets - Bloomberg in Mint (http://link.reuters.com/kuz58v)

India's Modi says committed to no first use of nuclear

weapons

Mindtree says March-quarter net profit up 24 pct

HSBC Bank Oman says agrees Indian business sale to Qatar's

Doha Bank

JSW Steel (BSE: JSWSL.BO - news) says raises stake in Vallabh Tinplate to 50 pct

Piramal set to pick up 20 pct stake in Shriram Capital -

Economic Times (http://link.reuters.com/puz58v)

IDFC, two other funds in race to buy NCC (Other OTC: NCCBF - news) 's highway assets -

Economic Times (http://link.reuters.com/nuz58v)

(Compiled by Manoj Rawal)