Monday, June 15, 2009

Markets Are Still Trading Lower - June 15, 2009

The markets are witnessing huge selling pressure today and are now trading at the day’s low. The selling pressure continued across the board mainly led by the Oil & Gas, Capital Goods, Metal, Auto and IT stocks. The most selling is seen among the frontline indices that led the BSE Sensex drifted below the 15000 mark. The BSE Mid Cap and the BSE Small Cap index are now trading with a loss of more than 1.5% each.

The overall market breadth is negative as 714 stocks are advancing while 1824 stocks are declining in BSE.

Reliance Infra reported the top gainer from the BSE Sensex pack, as it is trading up by (3.05%) at Rs. 1,215 while Sterlite Industries reported the top loser trading down by (7.28%) at Rs. 665.80.

The BSE Sensex is trading down by 326.56 points at 14,911.38 and the NSE Nifty is trading lower by 74.50 points or (1.63%) at 4,508.90.

The BSE Mid Cap decreased by 83.89 points or (1.60%) to 5,151.14 and the BSE Small Cap fell by 90.47 points or (1.50%) to 5,924.19.

The Oil and Gas index is trading with deep cut of 406.43 points or 3.87% at 10,103.29. Losers from this pack are Reliance industries trading down by 7.10% at Rs2,189.50 along with RPL by 6.94% at Rs136.75, Essar Oil by 3.12% at Rs163.20, Aban Offshore by 2.80% at Rs979.85, Gail India by 1.74% at Rs282 and Cairn India by 1.25% at Rs241.10.

The Capital Goods index is trading down by 435.36 points or 3.35% at 12,557.30. Leading from the losers pack are Alstom Projects trading lower by 4.95% at Rs442 followed by L&T by 4.52% at Rs1511, Gammon India by 4.41% at Rs148.35, Elecon Eng by 4.31% at Rs76.60, Areva by 3.78% at Rs346.05, Everest Kant by 3.36% at Rs217.45, Praj industries by 3.95% at Rs102, Punj Lloyd by 3.20% at Rs205.70.

The most active shares on NSE are RNRL trading at Rs 110.85 with a total traded quantity of 209781890 shares followed by Unitech trading at Rs.88.70 with a total traded quantity of 57652206 shares.

Gail India Limited is trading lower by 1.39% at Rs283. The company has announced the following Audited results for the quarter & year ended March 31, 2009. The Company has posted a net profit of Rs 6300.20 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2009 as compared to Rs 7223.80 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2008.

Total Income has increased from Rs 50349.50 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2008 to Rs 63220.80 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2009.

On the global markets front, the European markets are trading lower as the FTSE 100, DAX and CAC 40 index are trading down by (1.73%), (1.84%) and (1.87%) respectively.

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