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Weekly-market: Bulls mad as a March hare
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Saturday, March 20, 2010 |
| | Market Commentary | | Bulls mad as a March hare | | A raft of positives?S&P sovereign outlook upgrade, good advance tax payouts by India Inc. and inflation reading at four-month low?pushes the market higher for the sixth week straight. Leveraging on encouraging Q42010 advanced tax numbers of top Indian corporates, food inflation at its four-month low (16.3% year on year) and Standard & Poor?s upgrade of India?s outlook from ?negative? to ?stable? helped bulls to post gains for the sixth week in a row. Buying by foreign institutional investors (FIIs) and in information technology (IT), metal and oil & gas stocks pushed the market to its two-month high. In the week, the market not only broke free from the tight band of the last few months, but also breached crucial levels? the Sensex broke past 17500 and the Nifty crossed 5250. In the week, the Sensex added 412 points (2.40% up) and the Nifty 126 points (2.45% higher). All the 13 sector indices except BSE Realty posted gains. BSE Realty was down for the second consecutive week and ended the present week 1.39% lower. The top gaining sector indices were?BSE Metal, BSE IT, BSE Oil & Gas and BSE TECk?each up by over 3%. | The top 3 gaining stocks for the week were?Jai Corp (up 15.64%), Idea Cellular (higher 14.39%) and Indian Hotels Company (10.3% up). The top losing stocks were ? Indiabulls Real Estate (down 8.14%) and Mahindra and Mahindra (5.59% lower). FIIs were net buyers all through the week. The domestic institutional investors (DIIs) though indulged in selling for some sessions, were the net buyers for the week. FIIs bought stocks worth Rs3,623.80 crore, whereas DII purchase stood at Rs368.50 crore for the week. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI)?s hiking the repo and reverse repo rate by 0.25 basis points, which took market by surprise, may weigh on the market in the coming week, as it was not expecting any change till the quarterly monetary policy review (due on April 20). The move may offset the S&P?s sovereign outlook and hit interest rate sensitive sectors like banking and realty. However, the effect would be largely limited if FII inflow continues. | TOP MOVERS (GROUP A) |  | | | | FII/MF ACTIVITIES |  | | | | Gross purchase | 12,405 | 6,433 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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