Friday, November 21, 2008

Market Inched Up Further On Strong Buying - Nov 21, 2008

The market inched up further on strong buying across the counters led by the recovery in the Asian markets after an initial fall. Also the fall in domestic inflation figures to 8.90% led to the hopes of further interest rate cut by the RBI to defend the economy from the global economy slowdown. The Asian markets get a boost on the back of better than expected results by Dell Inc, World’s No.2 PC maker along with two hoe loan finance companies- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac said that they would suspend foreclosures of occupied homes until early 2009, which is one of the biggest moves by the government to date to staunch the wave of evictions and home losses.

All these led to push up the sentiments among the investors to book their positions in the stock market. From the sectoral front, IT, Power and CG stocks are attracting the investors confidence as these indices trading with handsome gains of more than 4% each. While, the realty index take a strong beat as it is down by more than 5%.

The market breath is favoring as 975 stocks are trading in green and about 960 stocks in red on the broader BSE.

At 11.32 AM, the BSE Sensex gained 325.12 points at 8,776.13 whereas NSE Nifty up by 96.55 points at 2,649.70. The BSE Mid Cap and BSE Small Cap are higher by 21.70 points and 14.24 points at 2,917.49 and 3,399.58 respectively.

Gainers from the NSE Nifty Pack are Bhel up by (6.84%) at Rs.1273 along with TCS by (6.34%) at Rs.499, Suzlon energy ltd by (6.22%) at Rs.48.7, Hindalco Inds by (5.79%) at Rs.52.95 and Bharti Airtel by (5.56%) at Rs.624.9 and Wipro by (5.49%) at Rs. 230.7.

BSE Capital Goods is gaining by 269.18 points at 6,478.56. The major gainers are Bhel trading up by (6.84%) at Rs.1273 followed by Suzlon Energy by 6.22% at Rs 48.75, Alstom Projects by 4.74% at Rs228.60, L&T by 4.47% at Rs 744.15, AIA Engineer by 4.38% at Rs134.50 and Punj Lloyd by 3.91% at Rs149.

BSE Metal index is trading higher by 137.59 points (3.24%) at 4,388.08. Pushing it are Hindalco Inds trading up by 6.40% at Rs53.20 in line with Nalco by 5.80% at Rs166, Sterlite Inds by 5.19% at Rs210.90, SAIL by 4.60% at Rs61.35, Jindal Steel by 4.30% at Rs689.80, Welspun Gujarat by 3.62% at Rs97.20, Tata Steel by 3.29% at Rs163.25 and Jai Corp by 3.34% at Rs94.50.

Suzlon Energy is trading with gains of 6.22% at Rs48.7 as the company announced its plans to venture into solar energy sector. The company has already identified sites in Rajasthan and Gujarat for setting up solar energy power plants.

BHEL is trading up by 6.84% at Rs1273. The company has won an order worth Rs1,325 crore for supplying and installing main plant package at a power project in Andhra Pradesh. The order has been placed by Andhra Pradesh Power generation corporation for setting up a 600 MW thermal power generating unit in Warangal district.

TCS is trading higher by 6.34% at Rs499. The company has emerged the lowest bidder for the country’s largest e-governance contract to computerize Employee State Insurance Corporation and provide smart cards to around 1.5 crore industrial workers across the country.

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