Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Post Session Market

The Indian market made a smart recovery in the final trading hours of the session to close with good gains on the back of heavy buying across the counters. After facing the volatility throughout the trading session, the market finally managed to close on a good note. Though the opening was weak but buying at the lower levels led the market to closed above the dotted line. From the sectoral front, the capital goods, metal and bankex stocks remained in the light as most buying was seen from these baskets. As per the reports, the Finance minister held talks with the representatives capital goods sector of both the public and private sector regarding the slowdown of the industrial production.

The BSE Sensex closed higher by 202.89 points at 15,790.51 and NSE Nifty grew by 37.4 points to close at 4,747.05. The Sensex touched an intraday high of 15,829.59 and low of 15,464.72. The BSE Mid Caps and Small Caps also closed up by 88.49 points and 126.94 points at 6,471.51 and 7,941.11 respectively.

The market breadth was strong as 1829 stocks closed in green as against 794 stocks that closed in red.

The Capital Goods index surged 333.63 points to close at 12,862.47. Scrips that gained are Suzlon Energy (4.45%), Alstom projects (3.96%), Bhel (3.74%), ABB (3.72%), Kir Oil (3.37%), Praj Inds (3.30%), SKF India (2.55%), AIA Engineering (2.35%) and L&T (2.17%).

The Bankex index closed up by 239.45 points at 8,192.26. Gainers are HDFC bank (5.50%), BOB by (4.98%), Yes bank (4.65%), Kotak bank (4.47%), Federal bank (4.45%), CentBOP (3.61%), BOI (3.57%) and Oriental bank (3.03%).

The Metal index grew by 234.38 points to close at 13,778.96. Major gainers are Bhushan Steel (5.72%), Sesa Goa (4.87%), Jindal Steel (3.86%), Tata Steel (3.44%), Ispat Inds (2.98%), Welspun Guj (1.85%) and Hindalco inds (1.38%).

The Oil and Gas index closed higher by 108.16 points at 10,571.03 as Reliance industries (1.55%), RNRL (1.51%), IOCL (1.08%), RPL (0.80%), Cairn India (0.77%), Aban Offshore (0.50%) and ONGC (0.16%) closed in green.

The IT index fell by 20.02 points to close at 3,705.09 as Niit Tech (12.69%), Karut Net (4.81%), Niit Ltd (4.25%), Aptech (3.58%), Educomp Solutions (3.52%), Finance Technology (2.93%) and Infosys (1.27%) closed in positive.

The BSE Realty index fell by 117.46 points to close at 7,292.76. Losers are Ind Bull Real (3.33%), Unitech (2.23%), HDIL (2.02%), Ansal Infra (1.64%), Purvankara (1.25%), Sobha Dev (0.91%) and Anant raj (0.58%).

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