The Bombay Stock Exchange's 30-share Sensex closed at 19,504 up 117 points. The National Stock Exchange's 50-share S&P CNX Nifty closed up 26 points at 5,930.
Benchmark share indices ended nearly 2% down on Monday, amid weak cues from Asia and Europe, with index heavyweight Infosys leading the decline
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Markets continued to trade on a volatile note in afternoon deals, ahead of the futures and options expiry on Thursday. The Sensex is up32 points at 16,999. Nifty is up five points at 5,146.
Investors have turned cautious and parked their funds in less risky and fundamentally strong stocks ahead of the second-quarter earnings season.
Diversified equity funds put in a smart performance despite a downward trend in equity markets over the week.
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The overall market breadth was negative as 1,844 stocks declined against 986 advancing ones, on the BSE.
Second-best performer after Brazil so far this year.
The BSE Small-Cap Index (up 34 per cent) and the BSE Mid-Cap Index (up 28 per cent) have outperformed the Sensex (up 16 per cent) in the last two-and-a-half months, while the NSE Junior Nifty (up 25.4 per cent) and the NSE Mid-Cap Index (up 30.2 per cent) have beaten the S&P CNX Nifty (up 20.4 per cent) during the same period.
Asian markets also ended in the red.
On the last day of Satyam's stint in India's benchmark indices - the Bombay Stock Exchange Sensex and the National Stock Exchange S&P CNX Nifty - its shares turned out to be a punter's delight.
The performance has been a clear contrast to the movement in the first two months of 2014, when the S&P BSE PSU index massively underperformed the S&P BSE Sensex (down 0.2 per cent) by slipping nearly seven per cent.
A preview of the December quarter's company results by three foreign and three Indian broking houses hints at relatively moderate performance. Of the 47 companies that are part of the BSE Sensex & S&P-CNX Nifty, the benchmark indices, the expected net profit growth is 22 per cent.
Videocon Industries surged 6.3%, Blue Star rose 6% and Titan Industries rallied 3.5% by close of trade on Friday.
The BSE mid-cap and small-cap indices were down 1% and 1.7% each. Market breadth was negative 2037 stocks which declined for 881 stocks which advanced.
Key share indices ended over 1 per cent higher on Tuesday led by rate sensitive shares as the sluggish April IIP data re-inforced market expectations that the central bank could cut key policy rates and also lower the cash reserve ratio to boost growth.
Tata Motors, Maruti Suzuki and Hero MotoCorp among the top Sensex gainers
The managers see Sensex trading at a P/E of 16.
India's premium benchmark equity index, the S&P CNX Nifty, also the fastest growing index on SGX, will be traded for 16 hours on that exchange, compared to the six-and-a-half hours that it traded on the National Stock Exchange in India. The SGX will be traded from 6.30 am to 10.30 pm IST.
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The overall market breadth was negative as 1,989 stocks declined against 882 advancing ones, on the BSE.
On the contrary, the fall in the US markets was lower with the S&P 500 and Dow Jones both declining by around 9 per cent and 6 per cent respectively, while emerging markets lost around 18 per cent during the month. Pessimism in the financial markets following the filing for bankruptcy by Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch's sell-off, the AIG bailout and perceived uncertainty around the US bailout package added to investor fears.
Analysts said that there is some amount of decoupling between India and the rest of world backed by strong growth momentum.
Curiously, it will not be far-fetched to state the contrary, that the global stock exchanges follow the Indian markets' cue
Markets remained muted throughout the day on back of selling pressure in IT and PSU stocks.
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The 30-share BSE Sensitive index or Sensex slipped below 13,000-mark. At 1450 hrs, Sensex was down 526 points at 12,936. a loss of almost 4 per cent compared to Thutsday's close.
Bank Nifty has recovered nearly 300 points at 10,968 from intra-day low of 10,669 touched in early morning deals.
This bloodbath, however, provides investors with yet another opportunity to buy quality stocks at cheap valuations. And many experts buy this argument.
If you invested simply to make a quick buck, this would be a good time to book profits.
The good times continued for fund investors as equity markets closed in positive terrain for the third week in a row.
Volatility in April continued from where it signed off in March. The specter of rising interest rates and climbing oil prices dealt a double whammy to the stock markets.
The markets after seeing some volatility in the past few weeks, took a definite direction this weekÂ…downwards!
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