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Post-market: More cloud than silver lining

Monday, January 25, 2010

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January 25, 2010
Index Performance
Index

Sensex

Nifty
Open 16,847.70 5,034.55
High 16,877.77 5,035.70
Low 16,705.56 4,983.05
Today's Cls 16,780.46 5,007.90
Prev Cls 16,859.68 5,036.00
Change -79.22 -28.10
% Change -0.47 -0.56
 

Market Indicators
Top Movers (Group A)
Company Price 
(Rs)
%
chg

Gainers

Jai Corp 301.30 11.57
Jet Air India 539.20 3.78
Hindustan Zinc 1,228.75 3.71
Bharti Airtel 330.50 2.86
Koutons Retail 372.10 2.82

Losers

Tech Mahindra 1,051.60 -7.38
HCL Tech 361.15 -5.68
Century Textile 512.35 -5.24
M&M 1,072.35 -5.24
Madras Cements 113.70 -5.17
Market Statistics
- BSE NSE
Advances 1,105 539
Declines 1,747 1,190
Unchanged 61 28
Volume(Nos) 38.25cr

66.20cr

 Market Commentary 
More cloud than silver lining
A raft of global cues, Q3 monetary policy review by the RBI due on Friday and weak Q3 earnings see the market slide for fourth day on a trot.
Global signals
European indices were trading weak in morning trades, as energy stocks fell the most. At the time of writing this report, FTSE 100 was trading down marginal 0.24%.  
 
All Asian indices closed lower. Nikkei hits four week closing low. SGX Nifty closed 9 points lower.

US stock futures opened higher on Friday after sharp sell-off in the last week.

Indian indices
The bears continue to hit back the market on fourth straight session. The Sensex opened 12 points lower at 16847 and continued its southward journey to touch the day?s low of 16705. However it recovered the losses in afternoon and touched the day?s high of 16877. Towards the close, lower than expected results of Mahindra & Mahindra drag the Sensex back to red zone. The Sensex ended the session 79 points lower at 16780 whereas Nifty shed 28 points to close at 5008.

Market sentiment
The market breadth was negative, with the losers outnumbering the gainers. Of the 2,913 stocks traded on the BSE, 1,747 stocks declined, 1,105 stocks advanced and 61 stocks ended unchanged.

Sectoral & stock screening
Overall, bears were in firm control. Only fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) and capital goods drew investor interest with the BSE FMCG up by 1.14% and BSE CG 0.425 higher. Realty and automobile industry were hit the most with the BSE Realty and BSE Auto down by 2.88% and 2.14% respectively. The remaining indices were down by less than 2%. 

Leveraging investor interest in FMCG stocks, Hindustan Unilever moved up 2.35% and ITC advanced 2.21%, occupying No2 and No 3 slot among the 30 Sensex stocks. The top slot went to Bharti Airtel that gained 2.86% for the day. Among laggards, Mahindra & Mahindra declined 5.24%, Jaiprakash Associates tumbled 3.27%, DLF lost 2.77%, and Tata Steel plunged 2.24%.

Viewing volumes
With investors seeing probability of government selling its stake in the public sector unit Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilisers, over 1.06 crore shares changed hands on the BSE?the highest for any stock. This was followed by Ispat Industries (0.86 crore shares) wind turbine major Suzlon Energy (0.74 crore shares), Jai Corp (0.70 crore shares), India?s second biggest realty company Unitech (0.51 crore shares). 

Today's major news

  • Gujarat NRE Coke?s Q3 net profit doubles; the stock jumps 2.60%

  • HCL Technologies? Q2 net profit down at Rs296.8 crore; the stock tumbles 5.68%

  • LIC Housing?s bottom line grew by 14%; the stock ends the day 0.40% lower

  • Shree Renuka Sugars approves bonus issue; the stock surges 2.22%

  • J. Kumar Infraprojects bags orders; the stock shots up 4.76%

European Indices at 16:00 IST on 22-01-2010
Index Level Change (pts) Change (%)
FTSE 100 Index 5323.97 -11.13 -0.21
CAC 40 Index 3830.04 9.26 0.24
DAX INDEX 5684.83 -10.49 -0.18
Asian Indices at close on 22-01-2010
Index Level Change (pts) Change (%)
Nikkei 225 10512.69 -77.86 -0.74
Hang Seng Index 20598.55 -127.63 -0.62
Kospi Index 1670.20 -14.15 -0.84
Straits Times Index 2811.71 -8.00 -0.28
Jakarta Composite Index 2597.86 -12.48 -0.48
Shanghai Composite 3094.41 -34.18 -1.09

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