Markets to make a green start on sanguine global cues

07 Aug 2017 Evaluate
The Indian markets after two days of losses, made a strong comeback in the final hours and recovered all their initial losses to post gains of about a quarter percent in the last session. Today the start of the new week is likely to be in green tailing positive global cues. Traders will first be reacting to the outcome of the GST Council meeting, which during weekend approved implementation the electronic way bill system across the country, created necessary structural framework for anti-profiteering mechanism and provided relief to the agitating textiles sector by slashing rate of job work to 5% from a high of 18%. Meanwhile, the government has said that rollout of GST by and large has been smooth and it has deployed a large number of senior officials to regularly review the working of the new indirect tax regime. Traders will also react positively to the appointment of noted economist Rajiv Kumar as the new vice-chairman of the government think-tank Niti Aayog. There will be buzz in the gold and jewellary sector stocks, as the Finance Ministry has turned down the Commerce Ministry’s pitch for a reduction in import duty on gold, citing improved data in respect of the current account deficit (CAD). There will be lots of important earnings announcements too, to keep the markets in action.

The US markets made a modestly positive close in last session supported by a strong U.S. jobs report. Employment in the US jumped by 209,000 jobs, much more than anticipated in the month of July. The Asian markets have made mostly a positive start led by the Japanese market on strong US hiring data which bolstered optimism about economic growth in the world’s largest economy, though the Chinese market was marginally in red.

Back home, bulls which woke up in last leg of trade mainly helped the benchmarks to end near intraday high levels on Friday, as investors took to hefty across the board buying. Markets started the day on pessimistic note and extended their downside, as the Street remained disappointed with Reserve Bank of India’s 25 bps rate cut. Traders also remained concerned with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s statement that lending rate of 14-15 percent will make India uncompetitive in the global market and industry cannot invest at such higher interest rates. He said at a time when inflation was running high at 10 percent bank deposit rates were high at 9 percent. But loans were extended by banks at 14-15 percent interest rate and with such high interest rates global industrial investments will not come in. However, 32,100 (Sensex) and 10,000 (Sensex) proved to be the strong support levels, as markets started recovering from thereon and entered into green terrain in last leg of trade. Traders took some solace with the private report expecting a pick-up in the note ban affected rural demand from October this year. The report further said that the second consecutive bumper crop on good monsoons, farm loan waivers, and lower agriculture input costs will help revive the rural demand. Meanwhile, the government may impose anti- dumping duty on castings for wind operated power generators from China to guard domestic players from below-cost imports. Finally, the BSE Sensex gained 87.53 points or 0.27% to 32,325.41, while the CNX Nifty was up by 52.75 points or 0.53% to 10,066.40.

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