Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Mid Session Market

The market is trading lower as selling pressure witnessed in the large cap stocks. However, the broader market is trading with significant gain as smart buying witnessed in the Mid Cap and Small Cap stocks. The Realty and Metal stocks are the hot pursuits today where e the Auto, Health Care and IT stocks are out of favor today. . The overall market breadth remains extremely positive, as 1728 stocks are advancing while 816 stocks are declining and the 52 stocks remained unchanged on BSE.

The BSE Mid cap is higher by 75.35 points at 6,249.84 and the BSE small Cap advanced by 129.46 points to trade at 7,414.10.

At 12.50 pm, BSE Sensex was at 16,164.91 down by 52.58 points and Nifty was at 4,860.70 down by 16.80 points.

BSE Metal index surged by 235.41 points to trade at 13,843.05. The major gainers are Gujarat NRE (11.34%), Jindal Stainless (4.70%), Ispat Industries (3.70%) and Sterlite Industries (3.11%).

BSE Capital goods index advanced by 16.45 points to 13,884.05. The main gainers are Praj Industries (6.44%), Bharat Electrical (2.45%), SKF India (2.93%) and Havells India (1.22%).

BSE Banks index advanced by 47.27 points to trade at 8,418.61. The top gainers are Yes Bank (6.07%), AXIX Bank (4.90%), Centurion Bank of Punjab (3.61%) and Kotak Bank (2.26%).

BSE Health Care index declined by 18.45 points to trade at 3,747.31 as Sun Pharma (4.24%), Lupin (2.14%), Ranbaxy Lab. (0.99%) and Nicholas Piramal (0.40%) are trading in negative.

BSE Oil & Gas index was trading 36.32 points higher at 10,345.12 as ABN Offshore (3.46%), ONGC (1.82%), GAIL India (1.45%) and Essar Oil (0.90%) are trading in green.

BSE Power index increased by 12.99 points to trade at 3,166.86 as GVK Power (5.81%), Torent Power (2.76%), Tata Power (2.30%) and Reliance Power (1.55%) are trading in green.

BSE IT index fell by 21.56 points to trade at 3,664.79 as Patni Computer (0.98%), HCL Technologies (0.68%), Infosys Technologies (0.83%) and TCS (0.47%) are trading in red.

BSE Auto index slipped by 32.58 points to trade at 4,549.47. Leading to its fall are Tata Motors (3.37%), Apollo Tyre (0.70%), Mahindra & Mahindra (0.56%) and Maruti Suzuki (0.45%).

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