Skip to main content

Day End Report

Aggressive selling in index heavyweights saw the index tumble to a low of 10,018 - down 791 points - a level last seen on 21 July 2006. Renewed buying at lower levels helped the index cut losses and touch a high of 10,787 - a recovery of 769 points.

The Sensex, however, witnessed some selling pressure towards the end of the day and finally settled with a loss of 228 points at 10,581.

While the BSE Mid-cap index slipped 63 points to 3,657, the Small-cap index declined 107 points to 4,286.

The BSE Oil & Gas  and Capital Goods indices plunged over 5% each to 6,828 and 7,665, respectively. The IT index shed 4% at 2,669, and the Auto index dropped 3.5% to 3,196. On the other hand, the BSE Realty index surged over 5% to 2,813, and the FMCG index added 1.7% to 1,903.

The market breadth was fairly negative - out of 2,623 stocks traded, 1,733 declined, 833 advanced and the rest were unchanged today.

Hindalco tumbled over 12% to Rs 70. Tata Motors slumped over 11% to Rs 251.

TCS tanked over 8.5% to Rs 495. Grasim and Reliance shed 8% each at Rs 1,371 and Rs 1,397, respectively.

Larsen & Toubro dropped 7.5% to Rs 826. Mahindra & Mahindra plunged 6.7% to Rs 452.

BHEL slipped nearly 6% to Rs 1,313, and Infosys declined nearly 5% to Rs 1,267.

ONGC, HDFC Bank and ACC were down over 4% each at Rs 803, Rs 1,087 and Rs 523, respectively.

Reliance Communications (RCom) zoomed nearly 10% to Rs 259. DFL soared over 8% to Rs 325.

Hindustan Unilever surged over 7% to Rs 248. HDFC rallied over 5% to Rs 1,801.

SBI advanced over 3% to Rs 1,544, and Jaiprakash Associates added 2.8% to Rs 75.

Sterlite moved up of 2% to Rs 299. Bharti Airtel was up 1.8% at Rs 731.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

RBS picks up 0.60% stake in Gateway Distriparks

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has picked up 0.60% stake in logistic services provider -- Gateway Distriparks. The bank has bought 6.40 lakh shares in the company for a total consideration of Rs 8.32 crore. Gateway Distriparks, incorporated in 1994, is engaged in the business of warehousing, container freight stations, providing handling and clearance of sea borne export-import trade in containerized form.

Day End Report

The Sensex opened with a huge downward gap of 250 points at 13,856, and soon touched a low of 13,731. Another rise in repo rate and Cash Reserve Ratio by the RBI sparked off heavy sell-off in opening trades. However, fresh buying at lower levels helped the index recover all its losses by mid noon trades. A fresh round of buying in late trades saw the index surge to a high of 14,249 - up 518 points from the days low. The Sensex finally settled with a gain of 113 points at 14,220. The NSE Nifty ended with a gain of 60 points at 4,251. The market breadth was marginally positive- out of 2707 stocks traded, 1,370 advanced, 1,264 declined and 73 were unchanged today. Reliance Communications (RCom) zoomed 7.2% at Rs 509. Tata Steel surged 4.5% at Rs 743. DLF and Reliance Infra gained 4.2% each at Rs 458 and Rs 945, respectively. TCS and Bharti Airtel advanced 4% each at Rs 877 and Rs 780, respectively. Ranbaxy was up 3.8% at Rs 545. BHEL gained 3.7% at Rs 1,442. Reliance advanced 3.4% to Rs 2...

Auto industry records highest-ever sales in Jan

Riding on the back of economic growth, easy availability of finance and the continuing fiscal stimulus, the domestic auto industry has posted the highest ever monthly sales in January. The strong growth is both in terms of passenger car volumes and the total vehicle sales. According to Society of Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) data, the passenger car segment has posted a 32 per cent growth in domestic sales at 145,905 units in January, over the same month last year. The last highest-ever monthly sales in the segment were in March 2009, when it sold 129,358 units. Meanwhile, overall sales across the industry grew 45 per cent at 1,114,157 units. The earlier record of highest ever monthly sales was in October 2006, when the industry had sold 1,017,198 units. Individually, the umbrella passenger vehicle segment posted a 37 per cent growth, while the commercial vehicle (CV) segment grew 131 per cent. Also, the two-wheeler and three-wheeler segments rose 43 and 47 per cent, respectively.