Special Report
18-MAR-2019
Global markets at a glance US stocks rose on Friday, led by technology companies, as a report on progress in US-China trade talks lifted sentiment, pushing the S&P 500 to its best week since November. China’s state-run Xinhua news agency said Washington and Beijing were making substantive progress on trade talks, providing relief after news that a summit to seal a deal between the two sides would not happen at Marchend.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 138.93 points, or 0.54 percent, to 25,848.87, the S&P 500 gained 14 points, or 0.50 percent, to 2,822.48 and the Nasdaq Composite added 57.62 points, or 0.76 percent, to 7,688.53. Asian share markets crept ahead on Monday while bonds were in demand globally on speculation the US Federal Reserve will sound decidedly dovish at its policy meeting this week.Japan’s Nikkei led the way with a rise of 0.7 percent, and MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan edged up 0.1 percent. E-Mini futures for the S&P 500 were just a fraction lower. The S&P 500 boasted its best weekly gain since the end of November last week, while the Nasdaq had its best week so far this year. PREVIOUS DAY ROUNDOFF Benchmark indices ended higher but off day's high on the back of last hour selling pressure.The Sensex was up 269.43 points at 38024.32, while Nifty was up 83.60 points at 11,426.90. About 1172 shares have advanced, 1452 shares declined, and 162 shares are unchanged. Among the gainers, Kotak Mahindra Bank rose 4%, followed by Power Grid Corp, TCS, ICICI Bank and SBI, while on the other hand HUL shed 2 percent, followed by Yes Bank, RIL, Bharti Airtel and ITC on the Sensex.On the sectoral front, IT index has outperformed the other indices with nearly 2 percent gain followed by auto, infra, metal and pharma, while selling was seen in the FMCG space.Nifty Bank continued its upward momentum as it ended 1.6 percent higher at 29381.50. Index stats The Market was very volatile in last session. The sartorial in dices performed as follow; Commodities[+26.75pts], Consumption[-29.60pts],PSE[+78.15pts],CPSE [+56.55pts],Energy[+21.25pts],FMCG[-513.9pts],Auto [+22.55pts],Pharma[+36.85pts],IT[+286.15pts],Metal [+6.20pts],Realty[-0.20pts], Fin Serv sector[+179.10pts].
World Indices Index
Value
% Change
DJI
25848
+0.54
S&P500
2822
+0.50
NASDAQ
7688
+0.76
FTSE100
7228
+0.60
21593 29255
+0.66 +0.84
NIKKEI HANG SENG
Top Gainers Company
CMP
Change
% Chg
1,325.15
56.2
4.43
IOC
157.35
6.25
4.14
HPCL
276.95
9.8
3.67
156
4.95
3.28
193.25
5.65
3.01
CMP
Change
% Chg
1,698.40 245.05 290.8 1,321.65 337.7
-38.9 -4.8 -4.7 -19.9 -4.7
-2.24 -1.92 -1.59 -1.48 -1.37
Kotak Mahindra
ONGC Power Grid Corp
Top Losers Company
HUL Yes Bank ITC Reliance Bharti Airtel
Stocks at 52 Week’s HIGH Symbol
Prev. Close
Change
%Chg
AGROPHOS
74.8
1.5
2.31
ALOKTEXT
5.55
0.25
4.72
ANUP
683.8
-11.8
-1.78
ARVINDFASN
791.8
37.7
5
3,002.30
60.75
2.07
Prev. Close
Change
%Chg
4.85
0.05
0.98
1.7
-0.05
-2.86
0.55 554.2 1.5
0.05 -44.5 -0.05
8.33 -7.3 -3.23
BANKBEES
Stocks at 52 Week’s LOW Symbol
CYBERMEDIA DNAMEDIA EUROMULTI FSC HOTELRUGBY
Indian Indices Company
NIFTY SENSEX
CMP
Change
% Chg
11426.9
+83.6
+0.74
38024
+269.43
+0.71
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