Benchmark Sensex advanced 110 points in a choppy trade on Wednesday, extending its gains to the fourth day in a row helped by buying in HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and fresh foreign fund inflows. The 30-share barometer rose by 110.58 points or 0.14 per cent to settle at 80,956.33 with 14 of its constituents ending with gains and 16 stocks with losses. During the day, it jumped 399.64 points or 0.49 per cent to 81,245.39 and dipped to a low of 80,630.53.
Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty slumped over 1 per cent on Friday, tracking a weak trend in global markets and fresh foreign fund outflows. Falling for the third day running, the 30-share BSE Sensex tumbled 1,017.23 points or 1.24 per cent to settle at 81,183.93.
The derivatives trading volume has seen a 37 per cent month-on-month decline in December following a slew of measures undertaken by the market regulator Securities Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to curb the frenzy in the derivatives segment. The average daily turnover (ADTV) for the derivatives segment (notional turnover for options segment) so far this month is at Rs 280 trillion - the lowest since June 2023-compared to Rs 442 trillion in November.
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Despite a largely stable December quarter, investors booked profit in shares of IndusInd Bank (IIB) as an increase in slippages took them by surprise. Analysts, on their part, believe investors may, now, wait for actual delivery on slippage decline, potentially limiting near-term upside. "The management has indicated that corporate slippages (from legacy stressed book) have ended and inch up in consumer finance slippages was more one-off, and should meaningfully improve Q4FY24 onwards.
Central Bank of India faces both the opportunities and challenges of any typical government owned bank but the issue price is reasonable.
The sharp rally in the markets thus far in fiscal 2023-24 (FY24) has left analysts struggling to find investment-worthy themes. The S&P BSE Sensex has surged nearly 7 per cent thus far in FY24 and hit a fresh 52-week high of 63,601.71 levels on June 22, mostly led by foreign institutional (FII) flows. "The Indian market has seen a broad rally in the past few months but headline indices have seen more modest performance. "We are not very clear about the reasons for the rally and the divergent performance and struggle to find ideas in the consumption, investment and outsourcing sectors after the sharp run-up in several of our favored sectors and stocks in the past two months," wrote Sanjeev Prasad, co-head, Kotak Institutional Equities, in a recent co-authored note with Anindya Bhowmik and Sunita Baldawa.
Shares of ICICI Bank, Axis Bank and HDFC Bank on Friday tumbled as much as 4.5 per cent in morning trade following accusations that the lenders have indulged in money laundering.
Investors saw their wealth rise by more than Rs 3.96 lakh crore on Wednesday as stocks continued their rally for the second straight session amid the Reserve Bank reiterating its accommodative stance and easing concerns over the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. The 30-share Sensex soared 1,016.03 points or 1.76 per cent to close at 58,649.68 and all the constituent stocks, except for two, closed in the green. Most of the rate-sensitive auto, banking and realty stocks registered gains during the day's trade. While the BSE Auto index rose 2.24 per cent, BSE Bankex went up 1.61 per cent and BSE Realty spurted 1.72 per cent.
The markets continue to consolidate at the higher levels and ended the day on a flat note with selective buying seen in index pivotals.
The Sensex closed at 11,893.79 up 233 points. The Nifty gained 66 points to close at 3,455.
Sensex ended up 110.10 points at 11,660.79, while Nifty closed up 24 points at 3390.
The Sensex opened with a huge positive gap of 92 points at 20,393, and dropped to a low of 20,077 in early deals.
The NSE Nifty closed at 3,638, down 133 points.
The markets opened on a strong note due to continued optimism on the back of expected robust third quarter corporate performances
Yet another weak start for the market, which opened in red, continuing the ongoing carnage in the Dalal Street but became volatile
Tagged as a sleepy, regional lender till a few years earlier, the bank's stock was not much talked about in the investors' community.
The markets have opened in the positive terrain in line with global peers on account of buying interest seen in construction, pharma, banking and capital goods
The markets have opened in the green in line with global peers and buying was seen in oil, pharma, capital goods and technology stocks.
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At 11.58 am IST, the Sensex is up 59.24 points or 0.47% at 12682.52, and the Nifty up 8.10 points or 0.22% at 3665.4.
The Sensex dropped 207 points to end at 17,362. The Nifty ended down 68 points to 5,221.
Growing concerns over slower-than-expected margin recovery, amid weak deposit growth have caught HDFC Bank's investors off guard. HDFC Bank's stock on Wednesday plunged nearly 9 per cent to hit an intraday low of Rs 1,527 on the BSE after reporting weaker-than-expected earnings in the third quarter (October - December) of the current financial year (Q3FY24). The shares of India's biggest private lender closed at Rs 1,536.9, down 8.46 per cent.
The NSE Nifty was down 23 points at 4,529. The market breadth was marginally negative - out of 2,749 stocks traded, 1,420 declined, 1,238 advanced and 91 were unchanged on Wednesday. The BSE Bankex dropped 2.2% to 7,271, and the Reatly index slipped 1.3% to 5,611. On the other hand, the BSE IT and Healthcare indices moved up over 1% each to 3,814 and 4,280, respectively.
The Sensex opened with a negative gap of 50 points at 20,637, and dropped to a low of 20,438 points in early trades.
All the sectoral indices, too, rallied sharply today. The BSE IT index zoomed over 6% (261 points) to 4582. The BSE Bankex, Power, PSU and TECk indices moved up 3-5% each today.
Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty settled higher on Thursday, powered by a rally in banking and power stocks amid a largely firm trend in global markets. The stock markets mostly traded range-bound in the absence of any major trigger and persistent foreign capital outflows, traders said. The 30-share BSE Sensex rose 144.31 points, or 0.18 per cent, to settle at 81,611.41.
The markets opened the last week of 2006 in green
The markets have opened the week in the positive terrain, traders are bullish on auto, power, bank up. In the morning session, selling pressure was witnessed in IT.
The markets have opened in the positive terrain on the first day of december, traders have shown their faith in construction, IT, steel, capital goods. The selling pressure was witnessed in oil, auto, telecom stocks.
The markets have opened the week with positive note as Asian markets
The markets opened strong on account of buying seen in select index pivotals
The Sensex closed at 12,365.83 down 7 points. The Nifty was down 3 points to close at 3,567.
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