Thursday, May 21, 2009

Markets Slipped On Or After Existence Towering - May 21, 2009

The markets slipped off from the day’s high and are now trading around the day’s lows as selling pressure emerged across the frontline as well as among the second line stocks. The Mid Cap and the Small Cap stocks also given up their early gains as the BSE Mid Cap is now trading marginally lower while the BSE Small Cap is now trading with a gain of more than 2%. The significant selling pressure witnessed among the Capital Goods, Auto, Banking and IT stocks.

The BSE Sensex is now trading below the 13,800 mark and the NSE Nifty below the 4,250 mark.

The overall market breadth is positive as 2122 stocks are advancing while 552 stocks are declining in BSE.

ONGC reported the top gainer from the BSE Sensex pack, as it is trading up by (8.15%) at Rs. 1,072.10 while L&T reported the top loser trading down by (8.49%) at Rs. 1,244.

BSE Sensex is at 13,788.95 down by 271.71 points and Nifty is at 4,225.55 down by 44.75 points.

The BSE Mid Cap is marginally lower by 6.09 points at 4,667.68 and the BSE Small Cap decreased by 131.71 points to 5,339.89.

The Capital Goods index is trading with deep cut of 524.83 points or 4.60% at 10,887. Pulling it are Larsen and Toubro trading down by 8.71% at Rs1241 along with Jyoti Structures by 7.55% at Rs128, Areva by 5.70% at Rs311, Alstom Projects by 4.38% at Rs432.05, Praj Inds by 4.34% at Rs95.90, ABB by 4.11% at Rs634.40, Bhel by 3.54% at Rs1968.25 and AIA Engineering by 2.03% at Rs203.

The Auto index is trading down by 100.36 points or 2.22% at 4,416.27. Losers from this pack are Maruti Suzuki trading lower by 7.32% at Rs967.05 followed by Mahindra and Mahindra by 3.03% at Rs658.10, Hero Honda Motors by 3.02% at Rs1260, Bharat Forge by 2.34% at Rs156.45, Ashok Leyland by 2.07% at Rs30.75, Tata Motors by 1.77% at Rs357.45 and Exide Inds by 1.10% at Rs63.10.

The most active shares on NSE are Ispat Inds trading at Rs 19.60 with a total traded quantity of 51122204 shares followed by Unitech trading at Rs.71.95 with a total traded quantity of 50602789 shares.

Tata Motor is trading down by 2.45% at Rs355. The company raised Rs. 4200 crores ($ 840 million) through issue of Secured Non-Convertible Rupee Debentures. The issue opened for bids today at 10 am and dosed at 5 pm.

The funds raised will be used for part repayment of the $3 billion bridge facility taken for acquiring Jaguar Land Rover. Tata Motors had earlier prepaid $1.11 billion.

Aurobindo Pharma is trading up by 6.11% at Rs346.25. The company announced that it has further expanded its partnership with Pfizer Inc, a global leader in Pharmaceuticals by executing licensing and supply agreements for several Solid Dosage and Sterile products for a number of emerging market countries.

Under the terms of the agreement, Pfizer has acquired rights to 55 solid oral dose products and 5 sterile injectable products for several countries throughout Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. These products fall under a broad range of some important therapeutic segments such as antiinfectives, cardiovascular (CVS) and central nervous system disorders (CNS).

On the global markets front, the European markets are trading lower as the FTSE 100 and DAX index are trading down by (2.32%) and (1.74%) respectively.

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