Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Markets remain marginally weak; broader markets outperform

Business standard has posted by Markets remain marginally weak; broader markets outperform
have turned weak after making a flat opening tracking mixed trend among global peers.

However, as the likelihood of fades and the progress of is witnessed, some fresh buying can be experienced across the board later during the session.

By 9:45 am, the S&P was lower by 50 points at 26,817 and the dipped 18 points at 8,221.  Broader markets are outperforming the benchmark indices- BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices are up 0.25-0.3%.


"The horizontal resistance of 8333 is expected discourage upside attempts. This suggests that, the challenge for the day, atleast in the initial hours would be to play the turn lower from the 8252 region. It would require a direct rise above 8333 to usher in more strength in which case 8440 would be achieved swiftly," says Geojit BNP Paribas in a morning note.

In overseas markets, most Asian shares rose today on growing expectations that British voters will opt to remain in the European Union in this week's referendum. But investors remain wary ahead of Thursday's vote, as well as Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen's two-day testimony before Congress which starts later today in which she might offer clues on the timing of the central bank's next interest rate increase.


US stocks ended higher yesterday but off their session highs, following the lead of European markets as polls showed support swinging back toward the UK remaining a member of the European Union ahead of a referendum.

Closer home, foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) sold shares worth a net Rs 537.46 crore yesterday as per provisional data released by the stock exchanges. Domestic institutional investors (DIIs) bought shares worth a net Rs 724.06 crore yesterday as per provisional data.


Mahanagar Gas (MGL) opens its initial public offer (IPO) of 2.46 crore shares today. The issue will close on Thursday, 23 June 2016. The price band for the issue has been fixed at Rs 380 to Rs 421. The IPO includes offer for sale of upto 1.23 crore shares by (India) and upto 1.23 crore shares by BG Asia Pacific Holdings PTE Ltd (BGAPH).

The company is promoted by GAIL India and BGAPH, each of who holds 45% of the company's equity shares. MGL is one of the largest city gas distribution (CGD) companies in India.

Shares of GAIL have gained by over 1%. Other notable gainers are Adani Ports, M&M, ONGC, Coal India and Bajaj Auto.


Mahindra First Choice Services (MFCS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mahindra and Mahindra, said on Monday it plans to take the numebr of its service outlets to 400 this financial year at an investment of about Rs 350 crore.

On the losing side, Bharti Airtel, Axis Bank, L&T, HDFC Bank and Asian Paints are down 0.7%-1.2%.

Most of the telecom operators have shown improvement in network performance although Airtel, Vodafone, Reliance, Aircel and Idea need to better their call drop rate performance in Delhi-NCR, said on Monday.

Bank stocks are in focus after the finance ministry in its quarterly revision on interest rates on small savings schemes kept the rates unchanged for Q2 September 2016. The government now announces revision in interest rates on small saving schemes on quarterly basis as against the earlier practice of annual revision.

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