Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Markets Are At A Standstill Trading Lower - July 08, 2009

The markets managed to gain some grounds from the sessions lows but are still trading lower. Further the negative opening of the European markets turned down the sentiments. The selling pressure continued among the Realty, Capital Goods, Banking and Metal stocks. The broader market indices still remained under pressure as investors are still remained bearish to enter fully into the market.

The BSE Sensex is now trading below the 13,900 mark and the NSE Nifty around the 4,100 mark.

The overall market breadth is negative as 585 stocks are advancing while 1866 stocks are declining in BSE.

ACC reported the top gainer from the BSE Sensex pack, as it is trading up by (4.92%) at Rs. 800 while Tata Steel reported the top loser trading down by (7.44%) at Rs. 368.50.

The BSE Sensex is trading down by 296.55 points at 13,873.90 and the NSE Nifty is trading lower by 83.30 points at 4,118.85.

The BSE Mid Cap decreased by 121.45 points to 4,842.89 and the BSE Small Cap fell by 133.08 points to 5,411.19.

The Realty index is trading with deep cut of 175.49 points or 5.51% at 3,006.65. Losers from this pack are Unitech trading lower by 9.63% at Rs68.95 along with Indiabull Real by 7.29% at Rs190.90, Omaxe by 6.52% at Rs84.65, Parsvnath by 6.48% at Rs77.20, Ansal Infra by 6.24% at Rs48.80, DLF by 5.29% at Rs291.80, HDIL by 5.27% at Rs204, Orbitco by 4.79% at Rs138.05 and Mahindra Life by 4.62% at Rs258.

The Capital Goods index is trading down by 453.82 points or 3.69% at 11,848.03. Leading from the loser''s pack are Elecon Eng trading lower by 9.42% at Rs61.05 followed by Suzlon Energy by 7.85% at Rs89.80, Siemens by 5.42% at Rs433.50, Praj Industries by 5.29% at Rs83.25, Reliance industrial infra by 4.98% at Rs851.30, ABB by 4.54% at Rs717.90, Lakshmi Machines by 4.39% at Rs840 and Bhel by 3.48% at Rs2,062.

The most active shares on NSE are Unitech trading at Rs 69.50 with a total traded quantity of 85649363 shares followed by Suzlon Energy trading at Rs.89.60 with a total traded quantity of 48329519 shares.

Tata Steel is trading lower by 6.79% at Rs371.05. The company has announced that in the month of June 2009 it has achieved a significant growth in its hot metal as well crude steel and saleable steel production over the same month last year.

The company has reported 19% growth in sales volume to 4.97 lakh tonnes as against 4.19 lakh tonnes in the same month previous year.

In line with this, the sales volume rose 22% to 14.18 lakh tonnes in the first quarter of FY10 as 11.59 lakh tonnes in first quarter of FY09.

The production of hot metal, crude steel and saleable steel in June this year grew by 16%, 21% and 38%, respectively, over June, 2008.

Also, the company has posted 30% growth in long product sales and 12% rise in flat product sales over June 2008.

On the global markets front, the European markets are now trading lower as the FTSE 100, DAX and CAC 40 index are trading down by (0.20%), (0.16%) and (0.91%) respectively.

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