Post Session Market Commentary

The Indian market closed with modest gains after facing the volatility throughout the trading session. The market opened with handsome gains but was unable to sustain the momentum at higher levels and fell to compensate all its initial gains on the back of heavy selling pressure across the sectoral indices. But the market came off sharply towards the end of the session to close with marginal gains. Metal index remained out of favor as most selling is seen from this basket. The Small Caps and Mid Caps was the worst hit as they faced heavy selling across the counters and they closed lower by 459.06 points and 285.16 points at 13,516.13 and 9,817.07 respectively. The BSE Sensex closed higher by 60.68 points at 20,873.33 and NSE Nifty closed up by 8.75 points at 6,287.85.

BSE Metal index declined by 603.62 points to close at 19,538.34. Scrips that dropped are Ispat industries (6.59%), Nalco (4.74%), Tata Steel (3.66%), Bhushan Steel (3.73%) and Sail (2.93%).

BSE Realty index closed lower by 130.27 points at 13,483.90. Scrips that fell are Penland (5.51%), Indbul Real (4.97%), Parsvnath (4.18%), Mahindra Life (3.67%)

BSE Bankex index slipped by 105.42 points to close at 12,086.57 as Andhra bank (4.93%), CentBOP (4.29%), Allahabad bank (4.31%), Oriental bank (3.33%), BOB (3.24%) and ICICI bank (2.23%).

BSE Oil & Gas index closed higher by 76.97 points at 14,051.27. Scrips that grew are RNRL (7.15%), ONGC (1.69%), Reliance industries (1.16%) and Gail India (0.35%).

BSE Capital Goods index grew by 64.36 points to close at 20,214.92. Scrips that jumped are Suzlon energy (4.77%) and L&T (1.29%).

BSE Health Care fell by 55.77 points to close at 4,297.11 as Fortis Health Care (6.73%), Bilcare (4.62%), Dishman pharma (4.41%), Wockhardt (3.70%), Biocon (3.10%) and Cipla (1.30%).

BSE IT index rose by 49.32 points to close at 4,244.75. Scrips that advanced are Karut Net (4.39%), Satyam (2.67%), Mphasis (2.54%), Tech Mahindra (1.65%), TCS (1.48%) and Infosys (1.47%).