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Monday, September 22, 2008

Post Session Commentary - Sep 22 2008


The Indian markets closed the choppy session on a negative note after a firm starts to the session. The profit booking took a lead during the session that led the investors to take calculative approach to book their positions. The domestic market opened with a bang tracking the US government’s $700bn proposed plan to deal with the World’s financial crisis, which would rescue banks from billions of dollars debts. As per this proposal, the federal government would buy up as much as $700bn of mortgage assets. The US Federal Reserve on Sunday announced that US investment banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley will become bank holding companies and will receive new US government credit. From the sectoral front, Capital Goods index faced heavy selling pressures across the counters to close with losses of more than 2%. On the other hand most buying was witnessed from the Metal and FMCG baskets. The market breadth was negative as 1354 stocks closed in red while 1234 stocks closed in green and 78 stocks remained unchanged.

The BSE Sensex closed lower by 47.36 points at 13,994.96 and NSE Nifty fell by 10.9 points to close at 4,234.35. The BSE Mid Caps and Small Caps closed lower by 7.82 points and 21.88 points at 5,220.96 and 6,194.44. The BSE Sensex touched intraday high of 14,221.04 and intraday low of 13,917.48.

Losers from the BSE are Suzlon Energy 6.78%, Punj Lloyd 5.62%, Bombay Dying 5.55%, BOB 5.20%, Lano Infra 4.94%, India Infoline 4.76%, Satyam Computers 4.69%, Oracle Fin 4.24%.

Gainers from the BSE are GMDC 14.08%, Sesa Goa 13.11%, Sintex Inds 10.62%, Gujarat NRE Coke 7.23%, Phoenix Mill 6.53%, Gujarat Petronet 5.47%, NMDC 5% and Colgate Palmolive 4.67%.

The BSE Oil & Gas index ended lower by 69.77 points at 9,398.65 as Indian Oil (3.65%), BPCL (2.59%), ABN Offshore (2.34%), HPCL (1.83%), ONGC (1.35%) and Gail India (0.18%) ended in negative territory.

The BSE Capital Goods index closed down by 262.98 points at 11,477.09 Losers are Punj Lloyd (5.62%), Gammon India (3.72%), AIA Engineering (3.52%), Siemens (3.37%), L&T (2.60%) and Elecon Engineering (2.08%).

The BSE Metal index advanced 99.35 points to close at 10,132.94. Major gainers are Sesa Goa (13.11%), Gujarat NRE (7.23%), NMDC (5%), Tata Steel (2.95%), Jindal Steel (1.84%),and JSEW Steel (0.19%).

The BSE Bank index closed lower by 7.59 points at 7,102.29. Losers are Bank of Baroda (5.20%), Indus Ind Bank (3.91%), Yes Bank (3.06%), Indian Overseas Bank (2.81%), Canara Bank (2.69%) and Kotak Bank (1.73%).

The BSE Reality index slipped by 7.14 points to close at 4,095.50. As Sobha Developres (6.17%), Ansal Infra (5.73%), Mahindralife 4.94%, Omaxe 3.21%, Orbitco 1.72%, Parsvnath 1.30%.