Trump-Putin meeting, Aug. 16 -- The most-awaited three-on-three Trump-Putin meeting ended in Alaska on Friday with a hope that the next round of meetings will be held in Moscow soon. However, the US President Donald Trump didn't walk out of the meeting as he had vowed ahead of the meeting, which signals development in the bid for a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war. Apart from this, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement of GST reforms from the Red Fort in his Independence Day speech may also work as a positive domestic trigger for the Indian stock market.

According to stock market experts, ice has been broken in the US-Russia bilateral relations as both global leaders (Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump) vowed to sit for anot...