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Post-market: Market slips as Crude oil spurts
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Monday, March 7, 2011 |
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| March 07, 2011 | 5:30 PM | Market slips as Crude oil spurts Domestic market ended the first session of the week with huge losses owing to rising Crude oil prices and political uncertainties. | | | | | | Major headlines | - JSW Steel crude steel production surges 8% in February
- BGR Energy unit bags order from Power Grid Corporation
- United Phosphorus to acquire a 50% stake in Sipcam Isagro Brazil (SIB)
| Indian indices The domestic indices ended the session with significant losses on the back of rising crude prices and political worries. The domestic indices fell sharply with rising crude oil price and political uncertainty at the center weighing on the market. The market?s concerns over political instability after Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam (DMK), a key ally of the Congress-led UPA government at the center, withdrew its support to the ruling government. Interest rate sensitive stocks like auto, banking and realty stocks took a heavy beating in today?s trade owing to rising crude oil prices. Rising crude oil prices may lead to higher inflation and for taming it there is a possibility that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its forthcoming mid-quarter policy review scheduled on March 17, 2011 might hike the key interest rate. Selling was broad based as mid-cap and small-cap indices also plunged over 1% each. Among mid-cap stocks, Trent, Info Edge India, Jyothi Lab and Onmobile Global were the major gainers, while India Infoline, Spicejet and Tecpro Systems were the major losers. | | INDEX PERFORMANCE |  | | | | | MARKET INDICATORS |  | | | | | | | Engineers India | 305.25 | 3.99 | | Aban Offshore | 606.70 | 3.66 | | | Ashok Leyland | 50.90 | -5.48 | | Bajaj Finserv | 515.40 | -5.38 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Among small-cap stocks, Walchand Nagar, Nocil and Kirloskar Oil rose over 14% each. On the other side, Parrys Sugar, Rei Six Ten Retail and Supreme Infrastructure India fell over 7% each. The Sensex began the session 124 points lower at 18362, with the level being the day?s high. The index soon started extending its initial losses. It continued to trade lower throughout the morning session. It fell further in the afternoon session to hit the day?s low of 18059. However, from that level the bellwether Sensex was able to trim its losses to some extent as the European indices pared their losses and turned positive. | Finally at the closing bell the Sensex settled at 18223, 264 points lower over its previous close, while the Nifty closed at 5463, lower by76 points. Bond and rupee updates: India?s 11-year bonds dropped for a second day on concern the government?s fuel subsidy bill will increase due to surging oil prices. The rupee depreciated by 0.17% to 45.0650 against the US dollar at 3.54 p.m. Market sentiment The market breadth was negative as declining shares outnumbered the advancing ones by over two times. Of the 2,994 stocks on the BSE, 1,972 fell while 908 advanced while 114 stocks closed unchanged. Viewing volumes India's second largest real estate developer - Unitech was traded the most, with over 0.46 crore shares changing hands on the BSE. It was followed by ADAG group power firm ? Reliance Power (0.31 crore shares), Jaypee group firm ? Jaiprakash Associates (0.29 crore shares), wind turbine major ? Suzlon Energy (0.29 crore shares) and India's number 2 mobile carrier - Reliance Communications (0.27 crore shares). | Sectoral & stock screening On the sectoral front, all the 132 sectoral indices ended the session with significant losses. The BSE Auto was the top loser down by 2.55%, followed by the BSE Capital Goods (CG) index which slid by 2.36%. While the BSE Realty and the BSE Bankex declined by 1.66% and 1.60% respectively, the rest of the sectors ended lower in the range of 0.19-1.43%. Among 'A' group stocks, Marico was the top performer surging 4.62%, followed by Engineers India which rose 3.99% and Aban Offshore which advanced 3.66%. |  | | | | Among the laggards, Ashok Leyland slid the most with a loss of 5.48%, followed by Bajaj Finserv which slipped 5.38% and GVK Power dropped by 5.05%. | | | | Global signals European shares traded higher in morning trade erasing its initial losses as crude oil prices pared gains. Major Asian indices ended mixed on Monday - indices like Shanghai Composite, Jakarta Composite and Straits Times ended in the green while Nikkei, Hang Seng and Kospi ended in the negative. The US stock index futures point to a higher opening on Wall Street today (Monday). | | | | Manage your newsletter subscriptions | | | | To know more about our products and services, click here. | | | | | | | Sharekhan Ltd. Regd Add: 10th Floor, Beta Building, Lodha iThink Techno Campus, Off. 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