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Post-market: Market for breather; measly up
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Thursday, March 18, 2010 |
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| March 18, 2010 | 5:30 PM | Market for breather; measly up After rallying for two days, the benchmark indices take a breather and end the lacklustre session with marginal gains on weak global leads. | | | | | | Major headlines | - TTML spurts on telecom tower sell news; the stock surges 4.67%
- McNally Bharat gets Rs173 crore order; the stock is up by 0.13%
- GAIL signs pact with MoP&NG; the stock is down by 0.29%
| Indian indices Indian markets witnessed a listless session after the two day's of smart rally. Owing to the lack of positive Asian cues, the Sensex opened flat at 17492, merely two points up. The 30-share index was trading marginally down in the early trades as it lacked the support from its global peers and hit the day's low of 17417. It again remained range-bound and traded in a tight band of around 130 points (17417-17548). However, buying in the Sensex heavyweights like Infosys, that hit its 52-week high today, Reliance Industries and ICICI Bank helped the market to erase losses and make a smart recovery and swing in to the positive territory, though marginally. It provided much-needed support to the Sensex to touch the day's high of 17548 towards the fag end. At the closing line, the Sensex closed 29 points higher at 17, 490, while Nifty ended at 5245, 14 points up. Market sentiment Indian equities traded range-bound today. Of the 2,930 shares traded on the BSE, 1,260 shares (43%) advanced whereas 1,566 shares (53%) declined. One hundred and four shares remained unchanged. | | INDEX PERFORMANCE |  | | | | | MARKET INDICATORS |  | | | | | | Indian Hotels | 104.05 | 5.63 | | | Ideal Cellular | 67.35 | 4.66 | | | | Hindustan Copper | 516.25 | -2.80 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Viewing volumes On the news that Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd. (TTML) has sold telecom towers to Tata Quippo for Rs1,318 crore, TTML was the second most traded share with over 0.34 crore shares changing hands. However, the top position went to India's second largest realty company, Unitech, which saw trading to the tune of 0.66 crores shares. | Sectoral and stock screening The thirteen sector indices had almost perfect split ? six were higher, seven ended lower. Bankex topped the gainers? list posting gains of 0.61% (on account of gains in Union bank [2.40% higher], Canara bank [1.86% up] and Axis Bank [1.68% higher]) followed by BSE TECk that was up by 0.57%. The top-3 gainers were Indian Hotels that rose by 5.63%, Tata Teleservices that surged by 4.67% and Idea Cellular that was up by 4.66%. The top-3 losers included Mahindra & Mahindra that slid by 3.32%, Hindustan Copper that was down by 2.80% and HPL that declined by 2.50%. |  | | | | | | | | Global cues On Thursday, March 18, 2010, the European shares fell from the previous session's 17-month closing highs in early trade, with banks and commodity stocks offsetting gains. At the time of writing this report, FTSE 100 was trading 0.04% lower. On Thursday, the Asian indices closed in the red due to lack of global support. SGX Nifty closed 11 points lower. 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