Benchmarks continue firm trade; Bankex, Oil & Gas lead

21 Nov 2014 Evaluate
Indian equity markets continued its firm trade in the late afternoon session on account of buying in frontline blue chip counters. Investors however adopted cautious approach ahead of the winter session of parliament, which begins next week and the RBI’s policy review scheduled on December 2, 2014. Traders were seen piling positions in Bankex, Oil & Gas and Consumer Durables sector while selling was witnessed in IT, TECK and Metal sector stocks. Hectic buying activity was seen in banking stock after Kotak Mahindra Bank announced that it was acquiring ING Vysya Bank in an all-stock deal. In scrip specific development, Future Consumer Enterprises was trading firm after acquiring the south India based convenience store chain Nilgiri. Buying activity was witnessed in selected railway stocks after the Narendra Modi Government released its first order for railway wagons. Sugar stocks continued its selling spree after yesterday Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan stated that there are no plans as of now to extend sugar export subsidy in 2014-15 season.

On the global front, the Asian markets were trading mostly in green while the European markets were trading on optimistic note. Back home, the NSE Nifty and BSE Sensex were trading above the psychological 8,450 and 28,200 levels respectively. The market breadth on BSE was neutral in the ratio of 1429:1434 while 108 scrips remained unchanged.

The BSE Sensex is currently trading at 28293.07, up by 225.51 points or 0.80% after trading in a range of 28038.40 and 28320.99. There were 20 stocks advancing against 10 stocks declining on the index.

The broader indices were trading in green; the BSE Mid cap index was up by 0.32%, while Small cap index up by 0.28%.

The gaining sectoral indices on the BSE were Bankex up by 2.41%, Oil & Gas up by 1.18%, Consumer Durables up by 1.05%, Capital Goods up by 1.01%, PSU up by 0.80% while, IT down by 0.67%, TECK down by 0.46%, Metal down by 0.29% were the losing indices on BSE.

The top gainers on the Sensex were SBI up by 2.93%, Axis Bank up by 2.69%, ICICI Bank up by 2.45%, Cipla up by 2.00% and Hindalco up by 1.86%. On the flip side, Infosys down by 1.89%, Tata Steel down by 1.03%, Sun Pharma down by 0.72%, Hindustan Unilever down by 0.67% and Tata Power down by 0.34% were the top losers.

Meanwhile, the government has approved rural electrification scheme Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana, which would replace the existing Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) and would entail an investment of Rs 43,033 crore. The balance work relating of the ongoing scheme of RGGVY till 2022 will get subsumed in this scheme as a distinct component for rural electrification and the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), for this purpose, has already approved the scheme cost of Rs 39,275 crore including budgetary support of Rs 35,447 crore. This outlay will be carried forward to the new scheme of DDUGJY in addition to the outlay of Rs 43,033 crore.

The scheme is aimed at strengthening and augmentation of sub transmission and distribution infrastructure in rural areas, including metering of distribution transformers and feeders.  It would have components to separate agriculture and non-agriculture feeders facilitating judicious rostering of supply to agricultural and non-agricultural consumers in rural areas.

The estimated cost of the scheme for two components of Rs 43,033 crore, includes the requirement of budgetary support of Rs 33,453 crore from the government over the entire implementation period.

Further, the scheme is likely to work towards improvement in hours of power supply in rural areas, reduction in peak load and improvement in billed energy based on metered consumption and providing access to electricity to rural households.

The CNX Nifty is currently trading at 8470.00, up by 68.10 points or 0.81% after trading in a range of 8398.60 and 8482.00. There were 36 stocks advancing against 14 stocks declining on the index.

The top gainers on Nifty were Kotak Mahindra Bank up by 5.36%, SBI up by 2.95%, PNB up by 2.75%, Axis Bank up by 2.73% and ICICI Bank up by 2.49%. On the flip side, Jindal Steel & Power down by 2.36%, Infosys down by 1.95%, Tata Steel down by 1.09%, Tech Mahindra down by 1.05% and Hindustan Unilever down by 0.79% were the top losers.

The Asian markets were trading mostly in green; KOSPI Index increased 6.8 points or 0.35% to 1,964.84, Taiwan Weighted increased 12.66 points or 0.14% to 9,091.53, Jakarta Composite increased 14.1 points or 0.28% to 5,107.67, Straits Times increased 26.4 points or 0.8% to 3,342.00, Shanghai Composite increased 34.13 points or 1.39% to 2,486.79, Nikkei 225 increased 56.65 points or 0.33% to 17,357.51 and Hang Seng increased 87.48 points or 0.37% to 23,437.12.

On the other hand, FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI decreased 12.65 points or 0.69% to 1,809.64.

The European markets were trading in green; France’s CAC increased 10.82 points or 0.26% to 4,245.03, UK’s FTSE 100 increased 19.87 points or 0.3% to 6,698.77 and Germany’s DAX increased 29.35 points or 0.31% to 9,513.32.

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