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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Market jumps on Fed move


The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 685 points at 17,415 after the 75 basis points rate cut by the US Federal Reserve yesterday.

After extending gains in the initial trades, the index pared gains and dropped to a low of 16,951 in late morning deals.

The index then rallied to a high of 17,997 - up 1,267 points from its previous close - in early noon trades.

Some profit-taking towards the end saw the Sensex pare gains and finally settle at 17,594 - up 864 points (5.2% ) - the third best single-day gain.

The index thus broke its seven-day losing streak of 19% (4,097 points).

The BSE Midcap Index zoomed over 8% (587 points) to 7,789, and the Smallcap Index surged 4% (397 points) to 10,425.

The NSE Nifty ended with a gain of 304 points (6.2% ) at 5203.

The BSE market breadth was marginally negative - out of 2,722 stocks traded, 1,401 declined, 1,300 advanced and 21 were unchanged today.

INDEX MOVERS

Reliance Energy zoomed 16% (Rs 274) to Rs 1,990. NTPC soared 13.7% (Rs 27) to Rs 224. Satyam surged nearly 11% to Rs 393.

SBI, TCS and Reliance rallied 8.5% each to Rs 2,344, Rs 867 and Rs 2,555, respectively.

BHEL gained 8% at Rs 2,146. Bajaj Auto advanced 7.5% to Rs 2,215.

Hindalco and Reliance Communications moved up 7% each to Rs 161 and Rs 615, respectively.

HDFC Bank and DLF added 6.5% each to Rs 1,535 and Rs 924, respectively. Grasim was up 5.8% at Rs 3,025.

Mahindra & Mahindra and ITC rallied nearly 5% each to Rs 641 and Rs 193, respectively.

Cipla, ACC and Tata Steel were up around 4% each at Rs 182, Rs 750 and Rs 697, respectively.

VALUE & VOLUME TOPPERS

Reliance Natural Resources topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 466 crore followed by Reliance Petroleum (Rs 356.80 crore), Reliance (Rs 332.30 crore), ICICI Bank (Rs 256.80 crore) and Reliance Energy (Rs 231.10 crore).

Ispat Industries led the volume chart with trades of around 3.46 crore shares followed by Reliance Natural Resources (3.44 crore), Reliance Petroleum (2.13 crore), Tata Teleservices (1.53 crore) and IFCI (1.49 crore).