Among the sectoral indices, the BSE consumer durables index was the top gainer, up 4.9%, followed by the Bankex and healthcare indices which were up 0.7% and 0.6%, respectively. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint
Mumbai: After opening higher, India’s equity markets slipped slightly on Monday as investors booked profits ahead of Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) bi-monthly monetary policy due on Tuesday.
At 9.43am, the benchmark 30-share BSE Sensex was trading lower by 0.02%, or 5.7 points, at 28,688.29 points, while the National Stock Exchange’s broader barometer 50-share Nifty was trading down 0.09%, or 8.05 points, at 8,596.30 points.
Among the sectoral indices, the BSE consumer durables index was the top gainer, up 4.9%, followed by the Bankex and healthcare indices which were up 0.7% and 0.6%, respectively. The auto and FMCG indices were up 0.5% and 0.4%, respectively. The BSE IT and Teck indices were up 0.2% each. The oil and gas and realty indices were the top sectoral losers, down 0.4% each, followed by metal and power indices, which were down 0.3% each.
Since the beginning of this year, the Sensex has gained 35.78%, while foreign institutional investors have bought $15.88 billion from local equity markets.
Asian markets were trading mixed after China’s manufacturing sector stagnated in November, with an HSBC index falling from 50.4 in October to a six-month low of 50.0 in November. Japan’s Nikkei Stock Average up 0.8%, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was down 1.8% and China’s Shanghai Composite was trading up 0.8%.
US markets ended mixed in a holiday-shortened session on Friday as energy shares got slammed a day after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) did nothing to alleviate a global supply glut, reports MarketWatch. The Nasdaq Composite closed up 0.1%, S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average closed flat. Opec decided to maintain its current production ceiling of 30 million barrels a day.
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