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Pre-market: Market heads for flat opening

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

March 18, 2010 | 8.30 AM

Market heads for flat opening
The Indian indices are expected to open flat on back of the mixed signals from the Asian markets.
Headlines for the day
  • Quippo buys TTML's towers, now largest independent firm?Business Standard
  • HDIL qualified institutional placement fails as realty turns pariah?DNA Money
Events for the day
  • Weekly inflation to be announced today
  • United Bank of India to be listed today
  • Ex-date for bonus issue: Indo Asian Finance (2:1), IVRCL Infrastructures & Projects and Suprajit Engineering (1:1)
  • Ex-date for stock split: Murli Industries (from Rs10 to Re1) and Suprajit Engineering (from Rs5 to Re1)
  • For more events, log on to Sharekhan.com

 

 STOCK TO WATCH
n INFOSYS n RIL
n WIPRO n L&T
n ICICIBANK
 
 FOREX
Currency Level
USD to INR

45.30

GBP to INR

69.43

Euro to INR

62.28

JYP to INR

0.50

INDIAN INDICES

Indices

Support Resistance
Sensex

17000

17775

Nifty

5092

5300

The market may open flat as Asian indices are exhibiting mixed trends in the morning trades. Although the bias remains positive, investors should maintain cautious as profit taking at higher levels may pull down the market. Among the local indices the Nifty could test 5092 on the downside while on the upper side it may move up to 5300. The Sensex has a likely support at 17000 and may face resistance at 17775.

FII/MF ACTIVITIES

As on 17-03-2010

FII
(Rs cr)
MF*
(Rs cr)
Gross purchase

4401.60

682.90

Gross sale

3048.90

799.50

Net investment

1352.80

(116.60)

*As on 12-03-2010

Daily trend of FII/MF investment in equities
On March 17, 2010, the foreign institutional investors (FIIs) were the net buyers of the Indian stocks to the tune of Rs1352.80 crore, whereas the domestic mutual funds, on March 12, 2010, were the net sellers of the stocks to the tune of Rs116.60 crore.

GLOBAL INDICES

The European shares hit a 17-month closing high on Wednesday, March 17, 2010, with banking, miners and energy stocks gaining from the US Federal Reserve's (Fed) pledge to keep interest rates near zero for an extended period.

The US stocks gained on Wednesday, after a benign February inflation reading supported the Fed's renewed pledge of low interest rates.

In today's trade, all the Asian indices are trading in the mix trend. At the time of writing this report, SGX Nifty was trading 6.50 point flat.

Commodity cues
In the commodity space, the Crude oil prices extended gains for the second consecutive session, with the Nymex light crude oil for the April series rose by $1.23 per barrel, whereas in the metals space, the Comex Gold for the April series rose by $1.80 and the Comex Silver for the May series was up by $0.17 to a troy ounce respectively.

 COMMODITIES

Commodity

Level ($) Chg ($)
Gold

1124.00

1.80

Silver

17.50

0.17

Crude

82.93

1.23

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