Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Sharekhan Post-Market Report dated October 03, 2007


 

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October 03, 2007

 

Index Performance

Index

Sensex

Nifty

Open

17,467.41

5,069.00

High

17,953.07

5,261.35

Low

17,288.41

5,034.15

Today's Cls

17,847.04

5,210.80

Prev Cls

17,328.62

5,068.95

Change

518.42

141.85

% Change

2.99

2.80

 

Market Indicators

Top Movers (Group A)

Company

Price 
(Rs)

%
chg

Gainers

DLF

892.75

16.41

Tata Power

1,031.25

13.22

Aditya Birla Nuvo

1,746.30

10.94

GE Shipping

378.90

9.76

Lanco Infra

393.00

9.43

Losers

MIRC

23.00

-7.26

Fertiliser Chemicals

27.40

-5.03

TVS Motors

67.55

-4.52

Jindal Saw

620.00

-4.35

RCF

59.50

-4.03

Market Statistics

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BSE

NSE

Advances

1,111

412

Declines

1,695

738

Unchanged

43

15

Volume(Nos)

64.11cr

98.42cr

 Market Commentary 

Roller coaster ride

The market recovered after tumbling over 665 points from the day's high and posted solid gains on the back of buying in several heavyweight stocks.

Today, the market witnessed a pre-result rally fueled by global money. After registering the all-time high of 17,953 in early trades, the Sensex slipped over 665

 

points to touch the intra-day low of 17,288 on the back of a frenzied selling pressure. But, by the afternoon the market went into a major recovery mode and surged by 559 points during intra-day trades. While the mood remained upbeat on strong buying in technology, oil, realty and capital goods stocks, the rally gathered more steam towards the closing hours and the Sensex ended the session with a gain of 2.99% or 518 points at 17,847, and the Nifty rose by 2.80% or 142 points to close at 5,211.

However, the market breadth was negative. Of the 2,849 stocks traded on the BSE 1,695 stocks declined, 1,111 stocks advanced and 43 stocks ended unchanged. Among the sectoral indices the BSE Realty index flared up by 6.46% and the BSE IT index gained 4.02%. While the other sectoral indices were up around 1-3% each, the BSE CD index and the BSE HC index ended in negative territory.

Movers & Shakers

  • GTL gained on winning a network service contract from a leading telecom operator with an initial order of Rs100 crore.
  • Kalptaru Papers tumbled despite entering into an agreement to run Satpuda Papers' 100 TDP bagasse based integrated pulp and paper plant on lease basis.
  • Allsec Technologies slipped despite acquiring Kingdom Builders Inc of Philippines engaged in the BPO operations for $1.5 million.
  • Thermax closed in the red despite the company and Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC have signed a technology and manufacturing license agreement applicable for the paper industry.
  • Suzlon Energy jumped on receiving a major order from DLF Ltd for setting up of a wind farm in Gujarat.
  • Patel Engineering surged on bagging an order worth Rs428 crore from National Power Corporation.


Recovery in the market was led by Reliance Energy, which shot up by 7.48% at Rs1,450. Among the major gainers, Infosys advanced by 5.72% at Rs2,001, NTPC moved up by 5.34% at Rs217, Reliance Communication added 5.03% at Rs643. Reliance Industries scaled up by 4.55% at Rs2,394 and BHEL jumped 4.23% at Rs2,074. Select index stocks witnessed selling pressure. Cipla was the major loser and dropped by 1.93% at Rs185, Ambuja Cement fell by 1.63% at Rs145. HLL, Ranbaxy, Dr Reddy's Laboratories and Tata Steel also ended in the red.

Over 3.65 crore Reliance Natural Resources shares changed hands on the BSE followed by Ispat Industries (3.07 crore shares), Tata Teleservices ( 2.51 crore shares), IKF Technologies (2.43 crore shares) and Centurion Bank of Punjab (2.27 crore shares).

Reliance Energy was the most actively traded counter on the BSE. Reliance Energy registered a turnover of Rs736 crore followed by DLF (Rs617 crore), Reliance Industries (Rs567 crore), Reliance Capital (Rs443 crore) and Reliance Natural Resources (Rs348 crore).

European Indices at 17:00 IST on 03-10-2007

Index

Level

Change (pts)

Change (%)

FTSE 100

6522.50

22.10

0.34

CAC 40 Index

5789.86

-9.41

-0.16

DAX Index

7956.06

9.27

0.12

Asian Indices at close on 03-10-2007

Index

Level

Change (pts)

Change (%)

Nikkei 225

17199.89

153.11

0.90

Hang Seng

27479.94

-719.81

-2.55

Straits Times

3754.62

-39.21

-1.03

Jakarta Composite Index

2451.59

-13.36

-0.54

 

 

 

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