Indian equities flat with negative bias on Thursday erasing earlier gains. At 10.11 a.m, the Sensex was trading down 16.59 points or 0.09% at 19,236.02 with 18 components falling. Meanwhile, the Nifty was trading lower by 9.45 points or 0.16% at 5,809.15 with 32 components falling.
The 30-share benchmark index, BSE Sensex opened with a decline of 30.56 points or 0.16% at 19,222.05, while the broad based NSE Nifty started with a fall of 17.30 points or 0.30%, at 5,801.30.
Sensex Movers
Reliance Industries contributed fall of
18.17 points in the Sensex. It was followed by Tata Motors (11.42
points), Hindustan Unilever (8.69 points), Housing Development
Finance Corporation (8.6 points) and H D F C Bank (6.6 points).
However, Infosys contributed rise of 18.44 points in the Sensex. It was followed by Tata Consultancy Services (13.57 points), Larsen & Toubro (12.35 points), Wipro (6.78 points) and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (5.74 points).
Major gainers in the 30-share index were Hero Motocorp (2.82%), Wipro (2.19%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (1.45%), Larsen & Toubro (1.33%), Tata Consultancy Services (1.29%), and Bharat Heavy Electricals (1.26%).
On the other hand, Jindal Steel & Power (1.84%), Tata Motors (1.75%), Hindustan Unilever (1.49%), Hindalco Industries (1.43%), Reliance Industries (1.05%), and Bajaj Auto (0.74%) were the major losers in the Sensex.
Mid & Small-cap Space
The BSE Mid and small caps outperformed their larger counterparts gaining 0.08% and 0.22% respectively. The major gainers in the BSE Midcap were Anant Raj (5.18%), Astrazeneca Pharma India (1.89%), Amara Raja Batteries (1.11%), Hexaware Technologies (0.92%) and Andhra Bank (0.05%).The major gainers in the BSE Smallcap were A2Z Maintenance & Engineering Services (3.41%), Advanta India (1.2%), Reliance MediaWorks (0.34%), Genesys International Corporation (0.25%) and Trident (0.12%).
Sectors in Limelight
The IT index was at 7,028.06, up by 83.47 points or by 1.20%. The major gainers were Oracle Financial Services Software (2.63%), Tech Mahindra (1.9%), Infosys (1.09%), H C L Technologies (0.99%) and Hexaware Technologies (0.92%).
The Capital Goods index was at 9,614.40, up by 88.99 points or by 0.93%. The major gainers were Larsen & Toubro (1.33%), Bharat Heavy Electricals (1.26%), Havell'S India (0.89%), A B B (0.38%) and Crompton Greaves (0.37%).
The Metal index was at 9,239.48, down by 89.6 points or by 0.96%. The major losers were Jindal Steel & Power (1.84%), Hindalco Industries (1.43%), Coal India (0.69%), Hindustan Zinc (0.58%) and Bhushan Steel (0.03%).The Oil & Gas index was at 8,760.88, down by 72.21 points or by 0.82%. The major losers were Cairn India (1.02%), Castrol India (0.81%), Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (0.64%), G A I L (India) (0.55%) and Oil India (0.41%).
Market Breadth
Market breadth was positive with 1,001 advances against 895 declines.
Value and Volume Toppers
Adani Power topped the value chart on the BSE with a turnover of Rs. 250.77 million. It was followed by D L F (Rs. 154.09 million), Multi Commodity Exchange of India (Rs. 113.63 million) and State Bank Of India (Rs. 110.64 million).
The volume chart was led by Sybly Industries with trades of over 10.05 million shares. It was followed by Adani Power (5.19 million), NHPC (1.59 million) and Housing Development and Infrastructure (1.45 million).
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