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Post-market: Sensex reclaims 17000
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010 |
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| Sensex reclaims 17000 Continuous buying in the Sensex heavyweight Reliance Industries and Greece bail-out helped the Sensex to touch the 17000 mark. | | | | | Major headlines | - Esab India's Q4CY2009 net up by 8.2%; the stock rises by 0.78%
- BHEL bags Rs5,778-crore contract; the stock rises by 1.02%
- TCS wins a 10-year UK pension project; the stock is up by 0.49%
- LyondellBasell rejects RIL takeover bid; the RIL stock rises 3.90%
- Maytas Infra, HDFC Bank fix repayment plan; the Maytas Infra stock closed 3.05% higher
| Indian indices Taking a lead from the positive global cues, the Indian markets opened higher with a gap of six points at 16778 and gradually rose higher throughout the session. However, continuous buying in the heavyweight RIL and the Greece bail-out lifted the Sensex, which touched the day?s high of 17012. The benchmark Sensex ended the day at 17000, 227 points higher. The Nifty sustained at the 5000 mark and closed 71 points higher at 5088. Market sentiment The advance/decline ratio, the number of advancing shares to declining shares, was positive. Of the 2,941 stocks traded on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) 1,965 stocks advanced, 891 stocks declined and 85 stocks remained unchanged. | | INDEX PERFORMANCE |  | | | | | MARKET INDICATORS |  | | | | | | Indiabulls Financial | 114.95 | 11.60 | | | Jaiprakash Associates | 145.20 | 6.14 | | | Shriram Transport | 463.30 | -2.22 | | Chambal Fertiliser | 60.10 | -1.80 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Viewing volumes The stocks that drew investors? interest are India?s second largest realty company, Unitech, which was the most actively traded company with over 75.66 lakh shares changing hands on the BSE. It was followed by wind power major Suzlon Energy (54.78 lakh shares), IFCI (52.41 lakh shares), Jaiprakash Associates (33.86 lakh shares) and Indiabulls Financial Services (33.45 lakh shares). | Sectoral and stock screening All the 13 sectoral indices closed in green for the second consecutive day. Investors? buying interest extended gains to all the sectors trading on the BSE. The oil & gas stocks rose 2.28% followed by the realty stocks that closed 2.16% higher. On the other hand, all the indices closed with a gain of 0.36-1.93%. On the stocks' front, Indiabulls Financial Services surged the most?by 11.60%?followed by Jet Air India, which rose by 7.09%, and Jaiprakash Associates that jumped 6.14%. |  | | | | On the losers? list, Shriram Transport slid the most?by 2.22%?followed by Chambal Fertilisers, which declined by 1.80%, and Bank of Baroda that dropped by 1.41%. | | | | Global cues European shares fell in the early trades on Wednesday, with the banking and energy stocks slipping ahead. At the time of writing this report, FTSE 100 was down 0.10%. All the major Asian indices closed higher on Wednesday, except Hang Seng and Jakarta Composite. SGX Nifty closed 42.50 points higher. US stock futures opened mixed on Wednesday, as US employment data is awaited. | | | | Manage your newsletter subscriptions |
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