The market extend its rally for sixth straight session today led by real estate, cement and capital goods stocks. However, IT shares faltered after TCS earnings disappointed. The market breadth was positive. Cement and realty shares gained on fresh buying. Recovery in some Asian markets triggered a sharp pull-back from days lows in afternoon trade.
Asian markets, which opened before Indian market, were in the red at the onset of the trading session after disappointing results posted by Bank of America Corp, the largest US retail bank, kept concerns about the fallout of the global credit crisis alive. However, markets in Hong Kong, China and Singapore recovered later. European markets, which opened after Indian markets, were in green.
The 30-share BSE Sensex was up 44.54 points or 0.27% at 16,783.87. Sensex gained 114.63 points at days high of 16,853.96 hit in early-afternoon trade. It opened with 52.78 points lower at 16,686.55 and slipped further to touch a low of 16,597.53 in early trade. At the days low, the Sensex lost 141.80 points.
The broader based S&P CNX Nifty was up 12.30 points or 0.24% at 5,049.30. Nifty April 2008 futures were at 5048, a slight discount of 1.30 points as compared to spot closing.
Market may turn volatile in coming days ahead of the expiry of April 2008 derivative series on Thursday, 24 April 2008. As per reports, Nifty rollover from April 2008 series to May 2008 series stood at 34% while marketwide rollover was 15%, as on Monday, 21 April 2008.
Indian stock market posted gains for the sixth straight session today, 22 April 2008, primarily due to healthy earnings and firm global markets. The 30-share BSE Sensex gained 1088.77 points or 6.94% from 15,695.10 on 10 March 2008.
The BSE Mid-Cap index was up 0.78% to 7,037.62 and the BSE Small-Cap index advanced 0.52% to 8,798.08. Both these indices outperformed the Sensex.
The market breadth was positive on BSE with 1563 shares advancing as compared to 1127 that declined. 57 remained unchanged.
The total turnover on BSE amounted to Rs 6,125 crore as compared to Rs 5,883.10 crore yesterday, 21 April 2008
Turnover in NSEs futures & options segment amounted to Rs 51643.74 crore as compared to Rs 40635.23 crore yesterday, 21 April 2008
Sectoral indices on BSE displayed mixed trend. The BSE Bankex (up 1.59% at 8,716.83), the BSE Health Care index (up 0.74% at 4,192.26), the BSE Metal index (up 2.07% to 15,529.38), the BSE Capital Goods index (up 1.90% at 13,928.71), the BSE FMCG index (up 0.63% at 2,380.94), the BSE Realty index (up 3% at 7,906.14), the BSE Power (up 1.12% to 3,318.13), the BSE Consumer Durables index (up 1.75% to 4,432.75), and the BSE PSU index (up 0.87% to 7,967.56), outperformed the Sensex
The BSE IT index (down 4.32% to 3,930.47), the BSE Auto (down 0.04% at 4,546.21), the BSE TecK index (down 2.40% to 3,263.43), and the BSE Oil & Gas index (down 0.34% to 11,477.39), underperformed the Sensex.
Among the Sensex pack, 18 advanced while the rest declined.
IT pivotals tumbled after Indias largest software services exporter TCS was downgraded by foreign brokerages after its earnings disappointed. TCS slumped 10.94% to Rs 884 on 8 lakh shares after the company reported 5.95% fall in net profit to Rs 1108.81 crore on 2.23% rise in net sales to Rs 4942.49 crore in Q4 March 2008 over Q3 December 2007. The results were announced after trading hours on Monday, 21 April 2008. It was the top loser from Sensex pack.
Other IT pivotals were not spared either. Infosys (down 2.42% to Rs 1605.30), Wipro (down 4.11% to Rs 435), and Satyam Computer Services (down 5.44% to Rs 434), slipped
Indias largest private sector company in terms of market capitalisation and oil refiner Reliance Industries was down 1.55% of Rs 2601.30 despite posting 24% rise in net profit to Rs 3912 crore on 36.27growth in total income to Rs 37575 crore in Q4 March 2008 over Q4 March 2007. Reliance Industries (RIL)s gross refining margin (GRM) increased to $15.5 per barrel in Q4 March 2008 as compared to $13 a barrel in Q4 March 2007. The company announced the results after trading hours on Monday, 21 April 2008.
Indias top pharma company in terms of sales, Ranbaxy Laboratories slipped 2.80% to Rs 485 after the company entered into strategic business alliance with Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals involving multiple geographies and therapies for both finished dosage formulations and active pharmaceutical ingredients. Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals shares slipped 1.44% to Rs 245.80
Grasim (down 1.85% to Rs 2595), and Mahindra & Mahindra (down 1.59% to Rs 629.05), edged lower from Sensex pack.
Indias biggest dam builder Jaiprakash Associates surged 6% to Rs 247 on 51.36 lakh shares. It was the top gainer from Sensex pack
Bharat Heavy Electricals, the countrys largest state run engineering company in terms of outstanding order book position gained 5.84% to Rs 1877 on reports the company has won orders worth around Rs 2030 crore for supply and installation of the main plan package at Nabinagar thermal power plant project in Bihar.
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, the country's largest oil exploration company in terms of market capitalisation, rose 2.06% to Rs 1051 despite the Income Tax department slapping a Rs 1,768.49 crore claim on the company for giving discounts on crude to public sector oilmarketing companies under orders from the government.
Shares from real estate sector advanced on fresh buying. DLF (up 3.49% to Rs 674), Indiabulls Real Estate (up 1.67% to Rs 503.90), Unitech (up 4.91% to Rs 280.90), Purvankara Projects (up 6.05% to Rs 277), and Ansal Infrastructures (up 10.56% to Rs 165.60), also surged.
Cement shares gained on fresh buying. ACC (up 2.46% to Rs 820), Binani Cement (up 5.58% to Rs 86.05), UltraTech Cement Company (up 6.20% to Rs 820), India Cements (up 3.35% to Rs 193), advanced
As per reports, cement demand outlook this fiscal remains healthy, driven by rising investment in construction and real estate sectors. Cement prices are expected to stay firm in 2008-09 as growth in production will be marginally outstripped by demand growth. Cement production may grow by 11.5% and cement consumption by 12% during 2008-09.
HDFC (up 3.86% to Rs 2580), HDFC Bank (up 3.10% to Rs 1490), and Larsen & Toubro (up 2.69% to Rs 2922) edged higher from Sensex pack.
Kiri Dyes and Chemicals settled with 5.7% premium on debut at Rs 158.55 on BSE compared to IPO price of Rs 150. The stock debuted at Rs 151 a premium of 0.06% over initial price offer (IPO) of Rs 150. On BSE, 35.10 lakh shares were traded in the counter.
Among the stocks with high volumes, IFCI surged 17.70% to Rs 59.85 on 3.45 crore shares. Reliance Natural Resources gained 7.02% to Rs 118.20 on 2.71 crore shares. Ispat Industries advanced 8.10% to Rs 36.70 on 3.27 crore shares. Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) gained 6.91% to Rs 36.35 on 1.43 crore shares. Nagarjuna Fertilisers & Chemicals rose 2.55% to Rs 50.25 on 93 lakh shares.
Orchid Chemicals topped the turnover charts clocking turnover of Rs 355.30 crore followed by Reliance Natural Resources (Rs 314 crore), Reliance Industries (Rs 220.70 crore), Kiri Dyes (Rs 212.70 crore) and IFCI (Rs 193.50 crore) in that order.
PSL gained 3.12% to Rs 316 after the company said it has secured two orders worth Rs 1,225 crore from Larsen & Toubro and HPCL-Mittal for laying pipelines.
Everest Kanto Cylinder gained 1.87% to Rs 307.70 after the company said it has successfully completed the acquisition of all the assets of CP Industries, Inc. United States for $66.3 million.
Shyam Telecom jumped 10% to Rs 109.45 on reports it is in advanced talks with Reliance Telecom Infrastructure, for first active infrastructure sharing arrangement in the country.
United Spirits declined 5.18% to Rs 1,665 even as the company reported 21.7% rise in net profit to Rs 65.11 crore in on 16.5% rise in net sales to Rs 758.98 crore.
From: CapitalMarket
