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Post-market: Markets rebound in late trade; Nifty regains 5500

Monday, February 21, 2011

February 21, 2011 | 5:30 PM

Markets rebound in late trade; Nifty regains 5500
Domestic indices bounced back from the previous session sell-off as robust GDP projection of 9% for the coming fiscal lifted market sentiment. 
Major headlines
  • Economy to grow at 9% in 2011-12: C Rangarajan
  • Punj Lloyd gets Rs735 cr contract; stock down 2%
  • Auto stocks dip on likely levy on diesel vehicles
Indian indices
An impressive late hour recovery of the markets saw the key indices close near their intraday highs. The recovery was led by IT stocks, consumer durables, telecom, oil&gas, metal, FMCG, banking and pharma stocks. All BSE sectoral indices ended in green barring auto. 

A consensus on the 2G scam JPC, along with a robust GDP projection of nearly 9% for the coming fiscal by C Rangarajan, Chairman of the PM?s Economic Advisory Council too lifted investor sentiment. 

The key benchmark index for NSE ? Nifty regained its 5500 level. The broader markets underperformed the Sensex as Mid-cap (declined 0.04%) and Small-cap (dropped 0.09%). 

Among Midcap stocks, Gujarat Pipavav, A2Z Maintenance, Petronet LNG and National Fertilizers ended the session with gains of 5-7%. On the other hand, Nava Bharat Ventures, EIH, Onmobile Global fell by 5-8%

In Smallcap index, Page Industries surged 7.25%, while Aksh Optifibre declined 9.27%.

 INDEX PERFORMANCE
Index Close % chg
Sensex 18,438.31 1.25
Nifty

5,518.60

1.09

 
 MARKET INDICATORS 
Top Movers (Group A)
Company Price (Rs) % chg
Gainers
Petronet LNG

118.60

5.24

National Fertilizer

114.10

5.21

Titan Industries

3,374.30

4.64

Losers
EIH

87.25

-5.66

Coromandel International

275.00

-4.94

Jet Air

472.50

-4.64

Market Statistics
s

BSE

NSE

Advances

1,395

761

Declines

1,465

1,102

Volumes (Rs crore)
Cash (BSE+NSE)

13,556

F&O (NSE)

159,875

The opening session saw the markets make a firm start, in line with positive U.S. markets. The Sensex started the first session of the week 27 points higher at 18238 while Nifty continued to hover between the negative and positive territory. However, the advent of a sudden bout of volatility pushed the markets into the negative terrain. Since then, volatile trade continued throughout the morning session. The early part of the afternoon session saw the markets trade in a rangebound manner, though with a negative bias. A weak opening of the European markets further jolted market sentiment, pushing the key indices to their intraday lows ? Sensex at 18,082.66 and Nifty at 5,413.10. In last hour of the trade the Index started to erase its losses and turned positive. The index hit the day?s high of 18457 in late trade as strong buying was seen in IT and consumer durable stocks. 

At closing bell, Sensex settled at 18438 higher by 227 points and the Nifty stood at 5519, higher by 60 points.

Bond & Rupee update: The yield on India?s 11-year bonds dropped to a one-month low on speculation of an increase in deposits that will spur banks to add to their debt holdings. 

India?s rupee strengthened for the third day on speculation that the government will announce state-asset sales and a reduction in its borrowing in the Union Budget, boosting investor confidence in the nation?s economy. The rupee climbed to its highest level in almost two weeks as Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee prepares to present the budget to parliament on February 28.

Market sentiment
Despite of strong closing, the market breadth was weak as declined shares outpaced the advancing ones. Of the 2,972 stocks on the BSE, 1,465 declined while 1,395 rose. However, 112 stocks closed unchanged.

Viewing volumes
India's second largest developer - Unitech was the most traded stock, with over 0.74 crore shares changing hands on the BSE. Following it were India's Number 2 mobile carrier - Reliance Communications (0.42 crore shares), leading housing finance firm - LIC Housing Finance (0.26 crore shares), industrial finance company - IFCI (0.25 crore shares) and wind turbine major - Suzlon Energy (0.25 crore shares).

Sectoral & stock screening
All the 13 sectoral indices closed the session in the positive territory except BSE Auto that ended the day 1.18% lower. BSE Information Technology (IT) jumped the most by 2.76%, followed by BSE TECk rose by 2.11% and BSE Consumer Durables (CD) advanced by 1.97%. Other sectors gains in the range of 0.30-1.81%.

In 'A' group stocks, top three gainers ? Petronet LNG rose by 5.24%, National Fertilizers surged by 5.21% and Titan Industries gained by 4.64%. Top three losers - EIH slid by 5.66%, Coromandel International dropped by 4.94%, and Jet Airways dipped by 4.64%.



Global signals
European shares slipped in early trade on Monday on growing uncertainty over the impact of political tension in oil producing regions after escalating social unrest in Libya.

All the major Asian indices ended the session on a negative note except China?s Shanghai Composite and Nikkei Index.

The US stocks markets were closed today on account of the President Day

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