Markets start the Samavat year 2069 on a muted note

13 Nov 2012 Evaluate
Muhurat trading to start the Samavat year 2069 remained a lackluster one, though the domestic markets made a positive start but soon they slipped into red and remained in the same territory for remaining one and half hour of special trading on Tuesday. The sluggishness in the global markets weighed on the sentiments, though scrip specific enthusiasm was seen and broader markets performed much better than the benchmarks. There has been a trend that markets have moved higher on the Muhurat trading but this time the major indices were stuck up in tight range and as the markets neared closing, the slide aggravated and markets snapped the trade with cut of over a quarter percent. The volumes were thin in the special trading session; transactions done during the Muhurat Trading Session will be settled as a separate settlement.

On the sectoral front in the sedate session of trade, Information Technology, Bankex and Auto Counters suffered significant losses. On the other hand, Realty, Oil & Gas and Metal counters, managed to a positive ending in a rather subdued short session of trade. Some resilience was seen in  Realty counter, despite the plunge of realty major, DLF, which reported a 62.8 per cent drop in its consolidated net profit for the quarter ended September 2012, to Rs 138.5 crore weighed down by decline in sales. On the flip side, telecom stocks hogged significant limelight during the session, even as the government’s much anticipated and hyped 2G spectrum auction turned out to be a damp squib with the bids coming for worth only Rs 9,200 crore at the end of the opening day. Additionally, cement stocks, viz, Madras Cement , Unitech, too witnessed profit-booking after Cement maker Jaiprakash Associates, reported an over 48 per cent decline in its net profit to Rs 128 crore during the quarter ended September 30, 2012, largely due to hefty increases in finance costs and muted sales.

BSE Sensex opened at 18728.95, up by about 58 points from its previous closing of 18670.34, finally the index closed at 18,618.87, down by 51.47 points or 0.28%. Intraday range remained 18732.71 and 18592.21. The breadth on the index ended in favour of decliners with 17 declines outpacing 13 advances.

The overall market breadth remained strongly in favour of advances and 1830 shares ended in green against 802 declines, while 166 remained unchanged. The broader markets outperformed the benchmarks, the BSE Midcap index gained 0.70% and the BSE Smallcap index was up by 1.24%.

The top gaining sectoral indices on the BSE were, Oil & Gas up by 0.36%, FMCG up by 0.26%, Metal was up by 0.22%, CG was up by 0.12% and HC was up by 0.10%. On the other hand, IT was down by 0.67%, Bankex was down by 0.42%, CD was down by 0.35%, Auto was down by 0.28% and Realty was down by 0.25%.

Top gainers on the Sensex were, Bharti Airtel up by 1.02%, ONGC up by 0.57%, Tata Steel was up by 0.56%, Cipla was up by 0.52% and Maruti Suzuki was up by 0.51%.

On the flip side, HDFC was down by 1.33%, Dr Reddy’s down by 1.18%, Tata Motors was down by 1.18%, Infosys was down by 0.91% and SBI was down by 0.85%.

S&P CNX Nifty opened at 5,689.70 and touched a high and low of 5,698.25 and 5,660.35 respectively before closing at 5,666.95, down by 16.75 points or 0.29%. There were 14 advances against 36 declines on the index.

The top gainers were, Bharti Airtel up by 1.07%, Maruti Suzuki up by 0.78%, Siemens up by 0.75%, Cipla up by 0.56% and Reliance Industries up by 0.53%.

On the other hand JP Associates declined by 2.63%, Ultratech down by 1.68%, Dr Reddy’s down by 1.51%, DLF down by 1.41% and SBI  down by 1.30 % were the main losers.

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