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Post-market: Markets break 4-day rally, end below key levels
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Friday, December 3, 2010 |
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| December 03, 2010 | 5:30 PM | Markets break 4-day rally, end below key levels After rising for four straight sessions, the markets took a breather in today?s trade and closed below crucial levels; realty companies? shares were worst hit | | | | | | Major headlines | - Godrej Consumer Products buys Genteel, Swastik Shikakai
- Tobacco majors halt production
- SEBI's ban drags four listed companies
| Indian indices Today?s marginal fall in the Indian markets was a result of sharp upmove seen in the last four sessions. Profit booking was seen in broader markets as the sentiments turned sour after the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) barred promoter groups of Murli Industries, Ackruti City, Welspun Corporation and Brushman India from dealing in their shares till further notice. The regulator found out that these mid-cap companies with the help of operators rigged their share prices ahead of convertible bond issues and private placements. Realty companies' shares also took a huge beating today. Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, select financial and metal companies' shares along with heavyweight Reliance Industries dragged the Nifty tad below 6000 level. However, indices got support from NTPC, Oil & Natural Gas Corporation, Hero Honda Motors, Jindal Steel, Mahindra & Mahindra, Cipla, Larsen & Toubro along with fast moving consumer goods and technology companies' shares, which limited losses to major extent. The Sensex started the session 15 points higher at 20007 and extended gains, hitting the day?s high of 20068. | | INDEX PERFORMANCE |  | | | | | MARKET INDICATORS |  | | | | | | | | | | Welspun Corp | 160.30 | -26.84 | | Videocon Industries | 204.00 | -12.35 | | Indiabulls Real Estate | 148.65 | -6.86 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The index hovered around its crucial levels of 20000 for the rest of the morning session. The index turned volatile in afternoon session and slipped into the negative zone, hitting the day?s low of 19877 as selling intensified in realty stocks. From the day?s low, the Sensex gradually recovered all its losses and turned positive. Finally, the index fell again and ended the session with marginal losses. The markets witnessed a listless session, with the Sensex and the Nifty closing below their crucial levels of 20000 and 6000 respectively. The Sensex ended at 19967, lower by 26 points. The Nifty closed at 5993, down by 19 points. | Market Outlook: Tonight in the US, data released will be non-farm payrolls data and ISM non-manufacturing data. | Bond and Rupee Update: The Indian rupee opened at 45.15 per dollar versus 45.28. India?s 10-year bonds headed for the biggest weekly loss in more than three months as a shortage of cash in the banking system reduced demand for debt. The securities halted a two-week gain as the overnight call money-market rate, at which banks lend to each other, climbed 33 basis points in the five days to 6.63%. Banks borrowed an average Rs972 billion ($21.5 billion) this quarter from the central banks repurchase auction window, compared with Rs239 billion in the previous three months. Market sentiment The market breadth was extremely weak as losing stocks outnumbered the gaining ones over three times. Of the 3,039 stocks on the BSE, 2,206 fell while 703 rose. Hundred and thirty-one stocks remained unchanged. Viewing volumes Government's power utility - Power Grid Corporation of India was traded the most, with over 0.98 crore shares changing hands on the BSE, Welspun Group flagship company ? Welspun Corp (0.85 crore shares), construction firm ? Hindustan Construction Company (0.76 crore shares), industrial finance company - IFCI (0.58 crore shares) and sugar major ? Shree Renuka Sugars (0.40 crore shares). | Sectoral & stock screening Out of 13 sectoral indices on the BSE, nine declined while the rest four rose. Among gainers, BSE Information Technology (IT) surged the most by 0.66%, followed by BSE Auto that advanced by 0.30% and BSE TECk gained by 0.29%. Among laggards, BSE Realty was the worst performer, down by 4.29%, followed by BSE Consumer Durables (CD) that fell by 3.63% and BSE Metal declined by 1.25%. Among 'A' group stocks, top three gainers ? DB Realty gained the most by 4.80%, NMDC surged by 3.03% and Shree Renuka Sugars rose by 2.42%. |  | | | | Top three losers ? Welspun Corp tumbled the most by 26.84% after the SEBI barred founder and promoters of the company from dealing in securities, Videocon Industries slipped by 12.32% after launching $200 million convertible bonds and Indiabulls Real Estate fell by 6.86%. | | | | Global signals The European shares traded marginally higher as investors awaited non-farm data in the US. The Asian indices closed mixed. Indices like Hang Seng, Shanghai Composite and Straits Times ended in the red, while Nikkei Jakarta Composite and Kospi closed in the green. 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