Jubilation continues on Dalal Street in late morning deals

03 Jun 2024 Evaluate

Local bourses continue to trade jubilant in late morning session as sentiments remained up-beat on the back of most Lok Sabha election exit polls showing the Prime Minister Narendra Modi returning for a third term. Better-than-expected macro-economic data too aided sentiments. India's Q4 GDP grew 7.8 per cent, beating estimates. Meanwhile, eight key infrastructure sectors’ growth rose to 6.2 per cent in April on healthy expansion in the production of natural gas, refinery products and electricity. The production of eight sectors grew by 6 per cent in March. Traders continued to take support with Moody’s Ratings’ projection that India to grow 6.8 per cent in the current year (2024), followed by 6.5 per cent in 2025. India’s real GDP grew 7.7 per cent in 2023, up from 6.5 per cent in 2022, driven by robust capital spending by the government and strong manufacturing activity.

The BSE Sensex is currently trading at 75997.31, up by 2036.00 points or 2.75% after trading in a range of 75678.43 and 76738.89. All the 30 stocks were advancing on the index.

The broader indices were trading in green; the BSE Mid cap index surged 2.99%, while Small cap index was up by 1.63%.

The top gaining sectoral indices on the BSE were Utilities up by 7.09%, Power up by 6.86%, PSU up by 6.40%, Oil & Gas up by 5.54% and Energy up by 4.79%, while there were no losers on the BSE sectoral front.

The top gainers on the Sensex were Power Grid up by 10.29%, NTPC up by 8.53%, SBI up by 6.45%, Larsen & Toubro up by 6.02% and Axis Bank up by 5.24%, while there were no losers on the Sensex.

Meanwhile, The Ministry of Commerce & Industry in its latest data has showed that eight key infrastructure sectors’ growth rose to 6.2 per cent in April on healthy expansion in the production of natural gas, refinery products and electricity. The production of eight sectors grew by 6 per cent in March. The growth of these core sectors - coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, fertiliser, steel, cement and electricity - was 4.6 per cent in April 2023. As per the data, fertiliser output recorded negative growth in April. The eight core sectors contribute 40.27 per cent to the country’s Index of Industrial Production (IIP).

Cement production having 5.37 per cent weight increased by 0.6 per cent in April, 2024 over April, 2023, and its cumulative index increased by 9.0 per cent during 2023-24 over corresponding period of the previous year. Coal production having 10.33 per cent weight increased by 7.5 per cent in April, 2024 over April, 2023, and its cumulative index increased by 11.8 per cent during 2023-24 over corresponding period of the previous year. Crude Oil production having 8.98 per cent weight increased by 1.6 per cent in April, 2024 over April, 2023, and its cumulative index increased by 0.6 per cent during 2023-24 over corresponding period of the previous year.

Electricity generation having 19.85 per cent weight increased by 9.4 per cent in April, 2024 over April, 2023, and its cumulative index increased by 7.1 per cent during 2023-24 over corresponding period of the previous year. Natural Gas production having 6.88 per cent weight increased by 8.6 per cent in April, 2024 over April, 2023, and its cumulative index increased by 6.1 per cent during 2023-24 over corresponding period of the previous year. Petroleum Refinery production having 28.04 per cent weight increased by 3.9 per cent in April, 2024 over April, 2023, and its cumulative index increased by 3.6 per cent during 2023-24 over corresponding period of the previous year.

Steel production having 17.92 per cent weight increased by 7.1 per cent in April, 2024 over April, 2023, and its cumulative index increased by 12.4 per cent during 2023-24 over corresponding period of the previous year. However, fertilizer production having 2.63 per cent weight declined by 0.8 per cent in April 2024 over April, 2023, and its cumulative index increased by 3.7 per cent during 2023-24 over corresponding period of the previous year.

The CNX Nifty is currently trading at 23161.40, up by 630.70 points or 2.80% after trading in a range of 23062.30 and 23338.70. There were 44 stocks advancing against 5 stocks declining on the index.

The top gainers on Nifty were Power Grid up by 10.48%, Adani Ports up by 9.80%, NTPC up by 8.61%, BPCL up by 7.08% and Shriram Finance up by 6.72%. On the flip side, Eicher Motors down by 1.33%, LTIMindtree down by 0.66%, HDFC Life Insurance down by 0.32%, Dr. Reddy's Lab down by 0.07% and Asian Paints down by 0.02% were the top losers.

Asian markets are trading mostly in green; Nikkei 225 surged 459.17 points or 1.18% to 38,947.07, Hang Seng jumped 419.53 points or 2.27% to 18,499.14, Taiwan Weighted soared 386.60 points or 1.79% to 21,560.82, Jakarta Composite rose 101.35 points or 1.43% to 7,072.09, KOSPI increased 49.42 points or 1.84% to 2,685.94 and Straits Times was up by 12.00 points or 0.36% to 3,348.59.

On the other hand, Shanghai Composite was down by 12.59 points or 0.41% to 3,074.22.

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