Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Markets And Keeps On Trading Sign Of Recovery - Nov 18, 2008

The market is trading with deep cut and the investors are taking cautious approach for booking further positions. The market opened on the back foot tracking weak cues from the global markets and keeps on trading on the negative territory without showing any sign of recovery.

Though encouraging statement from the finance minister failed to give a boost to the market. The finance Minister said that the government will take steps to stimulate the domestic economy to compensate for the downside caused by the downturn in the world economy. He said the government may consider cutting excise duty on some items as a part of efforts to boost factory output.

The Reserve Bank Of India governor Duvvuri Subbarao said, "We are constantly monitoring the situation. We will take appropriate action at the appropriate time”.

From the sectoral front, Bankex, IT, Power and PSU indices are facing the heavy selling pressures as they are down by more than 4.5% each.

On the global market front, the European Markets are trading in negative as Dax Index is trading down by 0.05% while FTSE 100 down by 0.45%.

The broader markets are also negative as the BSE Mid Cap and Small Cap are trading with losses of 2.02% and 2.38% at 3,070.09 and 3,574.29 respectively.

The overall market breadth is weak as 1779 stocks are declining while 598 stocks are advancing in BSE.

Wipro reported the top loser from the BSE Sensex pack. It is trading down by (8.49%) at Rs.230.55.

At 2.36PM BSE Sensex is at 8,894.89 lower by 396.12 points and Nifty is at 2,668.65 down by 130.87 points.

The BSE Bankex index is trading with losses of 238.86 points or (4.82%) at 4,717.18. Pushing it are Kotak bank trading down by 10.83% at Rs 305 along with ICICI Bank by 7.23% at Rs359.05, Indus Ind bank by 6.98% at Rs38, IOB by 6.88% at Rs70.35, Karnataka bank by 6.21% at Rs81.50, Canara bank by 5.03% at Rs169, Yes bank by 4.22% at Rs68.10.

The IT index index is down by 126.99 points or 4.94% at 2,441.50. Losers are HCL Tach down by 8.87% at Rs134.55 in line with Wipro by 8.49% at Rs230.55, Mosear Baer by 7.94% at Rs57.95, NIIT Ltd by 6.72% at Rs22.20, Finance Tech by 6.58% at Rs644.

The most active shares on NSE are Reliance Industries trading at Rs.1132.50 with a total traded quantity of 5512586 shares followed by State Bank Of India trading at Rs.1104.30 with a total traded quantity of 3070302 shares.

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