23rd September, 2013 : Comments by Amar Ambani, Head of Research, India Infoline
The banking, realty, capital goods power and the oil and gas stocks were among the top laggards. Even the mid-cap and the small-cap stocks witnessed continued selling pressure. Only the consumer durables, IT and the telecom stocks ended with positive gains.
For the past two trading session the Nifty has plunged nearly 270 points while Bank Nifty lost nearly 950 points in the past two trading sessions.
Amar Ambani Head of Research at IIFL said, “Considering deepening slowdown and heightened risks to growth, we do not envisage RBI to further hike repo rate in FY14. If the rupee continues to appreciate and stabilizes below Rs60/US$ than we believe that MSF rate would be reduced further and the overall liquidity window under LAF could be expanded”.
The Indian equity market ended in negative terrain for second consecutive trading session after RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan surprised markets on his policy review by raising interest rates. The RBI on Friday had raised repo rate by 25 basis points to 7.5% and it also revised the Marginal Standing Facility by 75 basis points to 9.5%.
The banking, realty, capital goods power and the oil and gas stocks were among the top laggards. Even the mid-cap and the small-cap stocks witnessed continued selling pressure. Only the consumer durables, IT and the telecom stocks ended with positive gains.
For the past two trading session the Nifty has plunged nearly 270 points while Bank Nifty lost nearly 950 points in the past two trading sessions.
Amar Ambani Head of Research at IIFL said, “Considering deepening slowdown and heightened risks to growth, we do not envisage RBI to further hike repo rate in FY14. If the rupee continues to appreciate and stabilizes below Rs60/US$ than we believe that MSF rate would be reduced further and the overall liquidity window under LAF could be expanded”.
Finally, BSE Sensex closed at 19,900 down 362 points, while NSE Nifty closed at 5,889 down 122 points over the previous close.
Bank of Baroda, DLF, Axis Bank, IndusInd Bank, JP Associates, PNB, SBI, IDFC and Maruti were among the top losers in the Nifty.
On the other hand, Sesa Goa, HCL Tech, Hindalco, Hero Motocorp, Dr Reddy’s Labs, Coal India and Infosys were among the major gainers.
The advance-decline ratio favoured the bears. On the BSE, 1314 stocks declined against 1000 advancing stocks, while 142 remained unchanged.
The INDIA VIX shot up by 9% at 27.02. It hit a day’s high of 27.24 and low of 24.73