HPCL trades higher as crude oil prices declines

22 Sep 2011 Evaluate

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) is currently trading at Rs 373.55, up by 3.10 points or 0.84% from its previous closing of Rs 370.45 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs 370.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs 375.45 and Rs 370.00 respectively. So far 19532 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs 550.00 on 11-Oct-2010 and a 52 week low of Rs 307.00 on 24-Feb-2011.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs 390.00 and Rs 367.00 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs 12544.45 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 51.11% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 38.37% and 10.52% respectively.

Crude prices resumed their declining trend on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve announced plans to boost the US economy by purchasing longer-dated government debt by selling $400 billion worth of short-term securities. The dollar strengthened on the news and the stock markets plunged, suffering their worst one-day drop in a month, along with Warning of “significant” downside economic risks weighed on the crude prices.

Meanwhile, the Energy Information Administration's (EIA) in its oil inventory report for the week ended September 16 showed that crude stocks declined 7.3 million barrels while, gasoline stocks rose 3.3 million barrels, and distillate stocks declined 0.9 million barrels.

Benchmark crude for November delivery settled down $1, or 1.15%, at $85.92 after trading in a range between $85.05 and $87.99 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. In London, Brent crude for November delivery settled down 18 cents, or 0.16%, at $110.36 a barrel on the ICE.

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