Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Mid Session Market

The market has lost further grounds as strong selling emerged in the frontline indices. The BSE Sensex has has gone below the 15400 mark and the NSE Nifty is hovering around the 4650 mark. The broader market is also trading with a deep cut. The strong selling witnessed in the selective scrips mainly led by the Capital Goods, Power, Bank and Metal stocks.

The inflation figure is a major cause of concern for the economy. So the government has taken certain steps in order to control inflation:
· Banned rice exports.
· Scrap import duty on crude edible oil;
· Cut duty on refined edible oils to 7.5%, etc.

The overall market breadth is negative, as 1169 stocks are advancing while 1234 stocks are declining and the 43 stocks remained unchanged on BSE.

The BSE Mid cap is lower by 105 points at 6,323 and the BSE small Cap slipped by 81 points to trade at 7,761.

At 12.50 pm, BSE Sensex was at 15,335 down by 309 points and Nifty was at 4,643.90 down by 90.60 points.

BSE Oil & Gas index was trading 42.04 points higher at 10,058.86 as BPCL (1.65%), Cairn India (1.34%), HPCL (0.31%) and Essar Oil (0.29%) are trading in green.

BPCL’s joint venture with Oman oil company has filed Draft Red Hearing prospectus for an initial public offering with Sebi. The company has filed papers for IPO of the joint venture company that is setting up a Rs10,400 crore refinery at Bina in Madhya Pradesh. BORL intends to raise Rs 3,850 crore equity for the refinery project having capacity of six-million-ton a year at Bina. This equity includes contribution by BPCL, government of Madhya Pradesh and the public.

BSE Health Care index declined by 25.62 points to trade at 3,822.49 as Sun Pharma (2.39%), Divi’s Lab (2.29%), Glenmark Pharma (1.16%) and Pfizer (1.09%) are trading in negative.

BSE Metal index dropped by 157.59 points to trade at 13,864.97. The major losers are SAIL (6.49%), Tata Steel (3.89%), NALCO (1.55%) and Sterlite Industries (0.56%).

BSE Capital goods index slipped by 469.39 points to 13,539.63. The main losers are BHEL (7.91%), L&T (6.13%), Siemens (1.95%) and ABB (1.27%).

BSE Banks index slipped by 159.01 points to trade at 7,558.60. The top losers are ICICI Bank (4.42%), HDFC Bank (3.46%), PNB (2.94%) and SBI (0.44%).

BSE Power index decreased by 69.36 points to trade at 3,120.45 as NTPC (3.30%), Tata Power (2.59%), Reliance Energy (1.83%) and Reliance Power (1.28%) are trading in negative.

BSE IT index fell by 9.29 points to trade at 3,538.32 as Wipro (4.54%), Mphasis (4.05%), Hcl Technologies (3.95%) and Infosys Technologies (0.92%) are trading in red.

Tata Consultancy Services advanced by (0.02%) to Rs..824. The company has signed a five-year, multi-million dollar contract to be the global engineering partner of ArvinMeritor. TCS will support the localization and globalization efforts of ArvinMeritor''''s engineering capabilities including product development and support for specific product lines in the Asia Pacific region.
Satyam announced establishment of Pega Business Process management centre of excellence at Cyberjaya, Malaysia. The company teamed up with US based company “Pegasystems” and the company will leverage the capabilities of Pegasystems SmartBPM Suite.

BSE Auto index declined by 49.43 points to trade at 4,475.34. Leading to its fall are Mahindra & Mahindra (4.58%), Maruti Suzuki (2.12%) and Ashok Leyland (1.42%).

Hero Honda is trading higher by (0.99%). The company will open its third manufacturing plant in Haridwar on April 8. This plant will have an initial installed capacity of half a million bike per year and will be manufacturing seven lakh bikes in the first one year of operation.

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