Mkt ends in green amid volatility: Midcap down; IT up

Sensex closed up 202.19 points or 1.24% at 16542.08, and the Nifty up 57.15 points or 1.17% at 4921.40.

The BSE Midcap Index ended at 7,114.18 down 1%.

The BSE Smallcap Index ended at 8,809.79 down 1.6%.

The BSE Bankex was down 1.5% at 8,916.03. Bank of India, Union Bank, IOB, Bank of Baroda and Oriental Bank closed in red.

The BSE Capital Goods Index closed at 14,688.40 down 0.9%. Gammon India, Punj Lloyd, Triveni Engg, Carborundum and Reliance Infra closed lower.

The BSE Auto Index closed at 4,849.86 down 0.2%. Punj Tractors, Tube Investment, Bajaj Auto and Hind Motors closed lower.

The BSE Metal Index closed at 16,016.46 up 1.2%. JSW Steel, Jindal Steel, Jindal Stainless, Hind Zinc closed higher.

The BSE FMCG Index closed up 3% at 2,232.05. Colgate, ITC, Nestle, Dabur ended higher

BSE Oil and Gas Index closed at 10,330.75 up 1.6%. BPCL, HPCL, IOC, Reliance Natura, GAIL ended higher.

The BSE IT Index was at 3,752.47 down 4%. Satyam, Wipro, HCL, Infosys, Tech mahindra, TCS, Tech Mahindra closed lower.

The NSE cash turnover was at Rs 12075.76 crore and the NSE F&O turnover was at Rs 70004.57 crore. The BSE cash turnover was Rs 10673.85 crore. Total market wide turnover was at Rs 103955.62 crore.

Mkt trades in green amid volatility: Satyam, Infy,ITC up

The frontline indices are trading in green with moderate gains amid volatility. However, the broader markets are more or less flat giving markets negative breadth. Buying is seen in IT stocks followed by metal, oil & gas and power tsocks. Trading weak are banking pivotals. Auto index which was holding out its gains in the falling markets is trading flat today.

Mkts witness volatility:  IT up; midcap, bank down

The market has re opened after the sun outage and continues to trade flat. However, the broader markets are more or less flat giving markets negative breadth. Buying is seen in IT stocks followed by metal, oil & gas and power stocks. Trading weak are banking pivotals. Auto index which was holding out its gains in the falling markets is trading flat today.

The cues from Asia are not very encouraging with most of the Asia trading lower.

Mkts witness volatility:  IT up; midcap, bank down

The frontline indices are off the highs and are trading flat amid volatility. However, the broader markets are more or less flat giving markets negative breadth. Buying is seen in IT stocks followed by metal, oil & gas and power tsocks. Trading weak are banking pivotals. Auto index which was holding out its gains in the falling markets is trading flat today.

Mkt trades in green amid volatility: IT up; bank down

The frontline indices are trading in green with moderate gains amid volatility. However, the broader markets are more or less flat giving markets negative breadth. Buying is seen in IT stocks followed by metal, oil & gas and power tsocks. Trading weak are banking pivotals. Auto index which was holding out its gains in the falling markets is trading flat today.

The cues from Asia are not very encouraging with most of the Asia trading lower.

IT index is up over 2.5% followed by BSE metal index up over 1.7%. The other indices in green are power, oil & gas, realty. Bankex is down over 1.5% and is the top laggard. 

Satyam, Infosys, HCL Tech, Tata Steel, BPCL, ONGC, TCS, Wipro are among some of the frontline gainers.

Bharti Airtel, ACC, HDFC Bank, Bajaj Auto, HUL, ICICI Bank, ITC,  Ranbaxy,, Suzlon Energy, SBI were among the losers.

Mkts flat in opening trade; banks down, Oil up

The markets have opened lower in early trade on the back of weak cues across the globe and selling pressure in banking and telecom stocks but turned into volatile trade. Oil stocks are trading marginally higher. Market breadth is negative, about 717 shares have advanced, 2245 shares declined, and 83 shares are unchanged.

At 9:56 am, the Sensex was down 34 points at 16,305 while the Nifty up 7.3 points at 4,871. NSE advance:decline ratio stood at 247:621.

IDEA, Bharti Airtel, ACC, HDFC Bank, Bajaj Auto, HUL, ICICI Bank, ITC, Suzlon Energy, SBI were losers while ONGC, Reliance Energy, Ranbaxy, Cipla, Satyam and Infosys were gainers in morning trade.

Asian markets trading lower. Hong Kong's Hang Seng plunged 0.50% or 116.74 points at 23,003.13. Japan's Nikkei fell 0.21% or 27.87 points at 12,964.41. Taiwan's Taiwan Weighted was flat at 8,462.57. Singapore's Straits Times was down 0.42% or 12.38 points at 2,907.30. South Korea's Seoul Composite declined 0.25% or 4.18 points at 1,672.

Market cues:

• FIIs net sell USD 169.4 million in equity
• MFs net sell Rs 453 crore in equity
• NSE F&O Open Interest up by Rs 52 crore at Rs 64,036 crore

F&O cues:

• Futures Open Int down by Rs 1,058 crore and Options Open Int up by Rs 1,110 crore
• Nifty Futures shed 4 lakh shares in Open Int; discount at 30-point
• Nifty Open Int Put-Call ratio at 1.17 Vs 1.18
• Nifty Puts add 9.5 lakh, Calls add 9.4 lakh shares in Open Int
• Nifty 4600 Put adds 4 lakh shares in Open Int
• Nifty 4800 Put adds 3 lakh shares in Open Int
• Nifty 5000 Call adds 2 lakh shares in Open Int
• Nifty 5100 Call adds 2 lakh shares in Open Int
• Nifty 5500 Call adds 1.4 lakh shares in Open Int
• Stock Futures shed 1.1 cr shares in Open Int