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Post-market: Sensex defends 17000, Nifty 5000
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010 |
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| March 09, 2010 | 5:30 PM | Sensex defends 17000, Nifty 5000 Despite tepid global cues and trailing metal, PSU, oil & gas and realty bourses the Sensex and Nifty holds on 17000 and 5000 respectively. | | | | | | Major headlines | - Larsen & Toubro plans 5,000 megawatt capacity by 2015; the stock ends down 0.92%
- Exide Industries re-charges on fund raising plans; the stock surges 3.90%
- Axis Bank moves to spin off a private equity arm; the stock slides 1.15%
- Ahluwalia Contracts readies Rs100 crore for acquisition; the stock closes 1.88% lower
- Wipro bags turnkey project from the government of India; the stock is up by 0.47%
| Indian indices On not-so-encouraging leads from Dow Jones yesternight and Nikkei, Hang Seng, Straits Times, Kospi and other Asian markets this morning, the Sensex opened barely 13 points up and seesawed in a tight band of about 100 points. The day?s high was measly 28 points above yesterday?s close and the day?s low was 71 points below yesterday?s closing. Despite not-so-positive global cues and continuous selling in metal, PSU, oil & gas and realty counters, the Sensex and Nifty managed to close above 17000 and 5100 mark respectively. The Sensex ended the session at 17052, 50.06 points lower, while Nifty closed 22.50 points lower at 5101. Market sentiment The advance/decline, the ratio of advancing shares to trailing, on BSE stood at 0.59 as 1,050 stocks advanced and 1,774 stocks declined. Sixty three stocks remained unchanged. | | INDEX PERFORMANCE |  | | | | | MARKET INDICATORS |  | | | | | | Shriram Transport | 499.45 | 5.20 | | Sintex Industries | 271.85 | 4.26 | | Exide Industries | 144.45 | 3.90 | | | | Hindustan Copper | 505.85 | -4.42 | | India Cements | 120.75 | -4.39 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Viewing volumes On news of German carmaker Daimler selling its stake in Tata Motors, over 4.38 crore shares of Tata Motors?the most by any scrip--changed hands on BSE. India?s second largest realty company Unitech (0.75 crore shares) was a number 2 followed by wind power major Suzlon Energy (0.56 crore shares), steel maker Ispat Industries (0.39 crore shares) and oil major Essar Oil (0.29 crore shares). | Sectoral and stock screening Information technology (IT), teck and consumer durable scrips drew some interest with their sector indices finishing the day barely positive. Rest of the sectors, from banking to auto to realty to what not posted losses. Metal, public sector unit (PSU), oil & gas and realty were hit the most in that order?BSE Metal down 1.56% and BSE realty down 1.09%. Rest fell less than a percent. Talking of scrips, Shriram Transport surged the most?by 5.20%?followed by Sintex Industries, which rose 4.26%, and Exide Industries that jumped 3.90%. Of the loosing stocks, NMDC slid the most by 6.23% followed by Hindustan Copper, which declined 4.49%, and Gujarat NRE Coke that was down by 4.39%. |  | | | | | | | | Global cues European shares fell in early trades on Tuesday on the back of negative signals from Asian markets. At the time of writing this report, FTSE 100 was trading 0.67% lower. All the major Asian indices posted gains for Tuesday bar Nikkei, which closed 0.17% lower. SGX Nifty closed 43.5 points lower. 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