Special Report 02 –JAN-2019
Global markets at a glance Asian stocks crept higher on Monday as hints of progress on the Sino-US trade standoff provided a rare glimmer of optimism in what has been a rough year-end for equities globally.Survey data out of China, however, proved unhelpfully mixed with manufacturing activity contracting for the first time in two years even as the service sector improved.Sentiment had brightened just a touch when US President Donald Trump said he held a "very good call" with China's President Xi Jinping on Saturday to discuss trade and claimed "big progress" was being made. The Wall Street Journal reported the White House was pressing China for more details of on how it might boost US exports and loosen regulations that stifle US firms there.MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan added 0.2 percent, but was still down 16 percent for the year. E-Mini future for the S&P 500 firmed 0.68 percent.Japan's Nikkei was closed for a holiday having ended the year with a loss of 12 percent.Across the region, the worst performer of the year was the index of Chinese blue chips which lost a quarter of its value. PREVIOUS DAY ROUNDOFF The Indian benchmark indices witnessed a strong surge in the final hour of trade managing to start 2019 on a positive note.Nifty managed to close 47 points higher at 10,910, while Bank Nifty closed 232 points higher at 27,392, closing at multi-month highs. The recovery in the markets was led by Financial Service and PSU Banking stocks with the likes of Bank of Baroda and Indian Bank closing 3.79% and 3.2% higher respectively. Rest of the major Asian markets were shut on account of New Year celebrations.Nifty & Bank Nifty Futures witnessed an addition in open interest mainly fresh long positions.On the Options front, Bank Nifty witnessed short covering in ATM and ITM call option strikes with 27300CE and 27400CE witnessing a reduction of ~1.78 lakh shares and ~1.16 lakh shares respectively, which fueled the rally in the Index. ( 3rd Dec Expiry). Index stats The Market was very volatile in last session. The sartorial in dices performed as follow; Commodities[-0.23pts], Consumption[-0.45pts],PSE[+0.14pts],CPSE[ 0 .1 8 pt s ], E ne r gy [+ 0 .0 9 ts ] , FM CG [ -0 .3 9 pt s ],A u to [ 0.57pts],Pharma[+0.15pts],IT[+0.07pts],Metal[ 0.61pts],Realty[+2.22pts], Fin Serv sector[+1.00pts].
World Indices Index
Value
% Change
DJI
23696
+0.37
S&P500
2506
-1.54
NASDAQ
6584
+0.08
FTSE100
6733
+2.27
20014 25504
-0.31 +0.10
NIKKEI HANG SENG
Top Gainers Company
CMP
Change
% Chg
JSW Steel
306.75
8.65
2.9
Tata Steel
521.05
8.2
1.6
202.2
2.8
1.4
723.15
9.15
1.28
430.5
5.3
1.25
CMP
Change
% Chg
259 312.5 253.25 137.05 619.9
-4 -4.05 -2.65 -1.15 -5.15
-1.52 -1.28 -1.04 -0.83 -0.82
Vedanta Tech Mahindra Sun Pharma
Top Losers Company
Bharti Infratel Bharti Airtel HPCL IOC Axis Bank
Stocks at 52 Week’s HIGH Symbol
Prev. Close
Change
%Chg
53.8
3.6
6.69
1228.1
25.9
2.11
1860.55
-9.8
-0.53
1000
0
0
425.25
31.75
7.47
Prev. Close
Change
%Chg
2.35
0.05
2.13
3.5
0
0
45.15
1.35
2.99
5.45
0.25
4.59
594.4
3.25
0.55
BANG GMMPFAUDLR HINDUNILVR ICICILIQ IRCON
Stocks at 52 Week’s LOW Symbol
ADHUNIK AMTEKAUTO DAMODARIND EASUNREYRL ENIL Indian Indices Company
CMP
Change
% Chg
NIFTY
10910
47.55
+0.44
SENSEX
36254
186.24
+0.52
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