Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Mid Session Market

The market has shed some of its opening gains as profit booking emerged at the higher level. The Metal, Capital Goods, Oil & Gas and Bank stocks are in demand today. All the BSE indices are trading in green from the opening bell. However the BSE Mid Cap and BSE Small Cap have out performed the benchmark index today. As a result the overall market breadth remains positive, as 2210 stocks are advancing while 532 stocks are declining on BSE.

The BSE Mid cap is higher by 135.07 points at 9,228.91 and the BSE small Cap advanced by 246.74 points to trade at 12,064.86.

At 12.31 pm, BSE Sensex was at 19,131.51 up by 51.87 points whereas Nifty was at 5,765.10 up by 22.80 points.

BSE Metal index surged 466.97 points to trade at 18,544.60. The major gainers are Tata Steel (2.20%), NALCO (1.93%), Sterlite Industries (1.26%) and Hindalco Industries (1.01%).

BSE Capital goods index advanced 224.43 points to 19,127.14. The main gainers are Punl Lloyd (2.08%), Praj Industries (1.91%), BHEL (1.55%) and L&T (1.34%).

BSE Banks index improved by 154.93 points to trade at 10,919.15. The major gainers are Canara Bank (3.83%), ICICI Bank (1.52%), Allahabad Bank (1.35%) and Federal Bank (1.02%).

BSE Oil & Gas index was trading 165.44 points higher at 12,475.12 as ONGC (2.63%), Essar Oil (2.36%), HPCL (2.04%) and Indian Oil (1.08%) are trading in green.

BSE Power index inclined by 45.32 points to trade at 4,260.62 as Reliance Energy (3.10%), Power Grid (1.79%), Suzlon Energy (1.90%) and Areva (1.50%) are trading higher.

BSE Auto index increased by 66.73 points to trade at 5,631.60. Leading to its gain are Mahindra & Mahindra (4.92%), TVS Motors (3.83%), MRF (2.12%) and Tata Motors (1.57%).

BSE IT index up by 33.14 points to trade at 4,195.90 as Infosys (1.55%), TCS (0.99%) and HCL Tech (0.67%) are trading in positive territory.

BSE Health Care index grew by 53.66 points to trade at 4,314.98. Leading the gain are Ranbaxy (1.46%), Cipla (1.39%) and GSK Pharma (0.47%).

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