Nifty Ends Above 8,900 First Time In Over Six Months; Axis Bank Jumps 5.3%
Asian stocks climbed, as investors backed away from haven assets and dollar strengthened.
Closing Bell
Indian shares extend gains, with key benchmarks advancing to over six-month high led by a reversal in bank stocks and metal makers extending their rally for a second day.
A recovery in European shares, led by mining stocks on surging commodities prices helped equities break out of their tight intraday range.
Brokers said that a pick-up in buying activity coupled with covering-up of short position by speculators in the face of February month's expiry in the derivatives segment on Thursday had a positive impact too.
The S&P BSE Sensex climbed 0.3 percent to 28,761 while the NSE Nifty rose 0.3 percent as well to close above the 8,900-mark for the first time since September 08, 2016. The market breadth was skewed in favour of the bulls. About 980 stocks advanced, 699 declined and 305 remained unchanged on the NSE.
Barring the S&P BSE Telecom, S&P BSE Information Technology and S&P BSE TECK indexes, all other 16 sectoral gauges on the exchange advanced.
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Shares fall as much as 5.8 percent, most since November 15 on volume around 64 times its three-month full-day average. It was also the most traded Indian stock by value and volume.
- Worst performer on S&P BSE 200, BSE 500 Indexes
- About 1.51 crore shares changed hands on NSE, according to Bloomberg data
- Buyers, sellers not immediately known
Opening Bell
Indian shares climbed marginally higher, with key benchmarks extending their advance for a fourth session, as metal makers continued to rally on higher prices and extension in an anti-dumping duty.
The S&P BSE Sensex gained 0.2 percent to 28,726 while the NSE Nifty 50 rose as much as 0.2 percent to 8,897. The market breadth was also encouraging with more number of buyers than sellers. About 1,009 stocks advances, 448 declined and 439 remained unchanged.
Brokers said that a pick-up in buying activity coupled with covering-up of short position by speculators in the face of February month's expiry in the derivatives segment on Thursday had a positive impact too.
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Talking Points
- India may carry forward part of bank capital infusion to next fiscal year
- India loosens derivatives limits, widening market for foreigners
- Megacity Mumbai votes as India’s sales tax threatens its revenue
- India considering Apple’s demands ‘more favorably’ this time
- India seeks bankers to manage IRCON International, IRCTC listing
- JPMorgan cuts Indian sugar-output forecast by 6 percent to 19.8 million tonne
- Reliance Jio & Uber announces strategic partnership
- IDBI Bank to consider funds raising plans
- Global funds sell Rs 433 crore of local stocks; domestic funds buy Rs 828 crore yesterday: provisional data
- Petronet said to seek 4 LNG cargoes for 2017 in tender (Reuters)
Earnings To Watch
- Castrol India Q4 (estimate Rs 124 crore)
- ITD Cementation India Q4 (estimate Rs 31.3 crore)
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The Singapore traded SGX Nifty, an early indicator of Nifty’s performance in India, edged 0.1 percent higher to 8,887.
Asian stocks climbed in early trade, as investors backed away from haven assets and dollar strengthened after a Federal Reserve official said a March interest rate hike is not off the table.
The pound was the strongest among G-10 currencies as a debate among British lawmakers headed into a second day. Traders are awaiting earnings from HSBC Holdings Plc and BHP Billiton Ltd. after a U.S. holiday damped activity on Monday.
Polls from Germany and France rattled investors. Social Democrats' candidate would beat German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a direct leadership vote scheduled for September, according to a survey by broadcaster ZDF. In France, far-right candidate Marine Le Pen gained ground on her rivals, according to the latest collated polls from OpinionLab.
Oil rose above $53 a barrel on optimism over the effectiveness of production cuts by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and other producer nations against increasing U.S. supply.
The OPEC and other producers, including Russia, agreed last year to cut output by almost 1.8 million barrels per day in the first half of 2017. Meanwhile, hedge funds raised net-long positions on West Texas Intermediate and Brent to a record, taking a bet that crude oil prices will rally.