Market Pulse - 22 Oct, 2013

Market Pulse - 22 Oct, 2013

Markets closed marginally weak as it saw consolidation for straight second day amid volatile trading session. The S&P BSE Sensex ended marginally down by 28.92 points or 0.14% at 20,864.97. It touched a high of 20,948.91 and a low of 20,810.25 in the intra-day. The CNX Nifty closed almost flat negative down by 2.15 points or 0.03% at 6,202.80. It touched a high of 6220.10 and a low of 6181.80 in the today's trading session.

Among the sectoral indices, Power and Capital Goods indices closed up gaining by 1.74% and 1.10%. Other notable sectoral gainers indices were, PSU, IT, Bankex, Healthcare and Metal. Whereas Consumer Durables, Auto, Oil & Gas, Realty and FMCG were the sectoral indices on the declinig side. However broader markets out-smart the benchmark index and closed positively. Mid-cap index closed up by 0.70% and Small-cap index gained up by 1.04% respectively.

Among the index gainers Tata Power and Sun Pharma rose up by 2.63% and 2.10% followed by shares like Coal India, Gail (India), Wipro, Tata Steel and L&T gaining betweeen 2-1%. TCS, NTPC, ONGC and SBI were some of the other notable gainers.

Among the index loosers were Hindalco Inds, Hero MotoCorp, HDFC, Mahindra & Mahindra and Reliance Industries declining between 2-1% each. Other notable loosers were Cipla, ITC, Bajaj Auto, Dr Reddys Lab, Sesa Sterlite, Maruti, HDFC Bank, BHEL, Bharti Airtel and Infosys.

However, overall market breadth ended firm positive with 1,492 shares declining as compared to 1,042 shares declining while 139 shares remained unchanged.

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