BSE Sensex gains 377 points, Nifty 144 points This Week

BSE Sensex benchmark overcame the two week losing streak by regaining the key psychological level of 29,000 points and Nifty reaching the crucial 8,800 level to the end the week on a high. The week saw the market overcoming the volatility that emanated due to the BJP defeat in key Delhi assembly election, sustained foreign capital outflows, dismal corporate earnings results besides global uncertainty over Greek, debt crisis as well as Russia-Ukraine skirmishes.

Discontinuing the AAP-win the coveted Delhi election result, investors centered on the forthcoming Budget session which is the ruling BJP’s first full-year financial plan amid expectations of further acceleration in economic reforms lifting up the market sentiment. The slowdown in December industrial output ((IIP) growth by 1.7 per cent and surge in January Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation though well within RBI’s range led to prospects of interest rate cut by the apex bank. Banking sector regained confidence as the country’s largest public sector lender SBI reported over 30 percent jump in its third quarter results.

The Sensex opened lower at 28,566.50 points and hovered around a high of 29,154.67 points and low of 28,044.49 points before settling at 29,094.93 during the week. The Sensex gained 377.02 points or 1.31 per cent and Nifty surged 144.45 points of 1.67 per cent to end at 8,805.50 points this week. The week saw buying in sectors led by Healthcare, power, banking, auto, FMCG, Metal, IT and capital goods.

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Sensex gains 365 points, Nifty up 132 points

After snapping around 800 points on Tuesday and 78 points on Wednesday, today Sensex gained 365 points, also breached the psychological mark of 27,000 points.

Similarly, Nifty rose 132 points today gaining from the three year low. Both the stock markets were seen in green due to the strong global cues.

The uncertainty in Greece and fall in the global oil price have tumbled the stock markets on Tuesday. The fall in the stock markets accounted loss of around 3 lakh crore of investors.

The BSE Bankex were the major shares reported major fall on Tuesday. However, today the markets were seen in green giving a bit of relief for rattled investors.

Today, Sensex ended at 27,274.71 points, gaining 365.89 points (+1.36%). BSE 100 gained 1.61 per cent, MidCap gained 1.82 per cent, SmallCap gained 1.79 per cent and BSE 200 up by 1.59 per cent.

Among sectoral indices, S&P BSE BANKEX gained 2.07 per cent,  S&P BSE FMCG up by 1.95 per cent,  S&P BSE REALTY up by 2.63 per cent,  S&P BSE HEALTHCARE gained 1.19 per cent. And, power and IT stocks gained around 1 per cent today.

Gainers at BSE were: PIPAVAV DEFENCE AND OFFSHORE ENG LTD (PIPAVAVDOC) gained 18.18 percent, BERGER PAINTS INDIA LTD (BERGEPAINT) gained 10.30 per cent, DELTA CORP LTD (DELTACORP) up by 6.99 per cent,TVS MOTOR COMPANY LTD (TVSMOTOR) gained by 6.19 per cent, and ASIAN PAINTS LTD.(ASIANPAINT) gained 6.11 per cent.

Losers were: PMC Fincorp Limited (PMCFIN) lost 4.97 per cent, Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd (HATHWAY) by 2.77 per cent, BHARAT ELECTRONICS LTD (BEL) by 2.48 per cent, KAILASH AUTO FINANCE LTD (KAILASH) by 1.99 per cent JUBILANT LIFE SCIENCES and LIMITED(JUBILANT) by 1.97 per cent.

CNX NIFTY ended at 8,234.60 points today gaining 132.50 points (+ 1.64%) following strong global cues. 48 shares advanced and two declined out of 50 shares index at Nifty today.

Gainers at Nifty were ASIAN PAINTS LTD (ASIANPAINT) by 6.45 per cent, DLF Limited (DLF) by 5.68 per cent, Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited (KOTAKBANK) by 5.62 pe cent - the customers approved the merger with ING Vysya Bank, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) by 5.50 per cent, Jindal Steel & Power Limited (JINDALSTEL) by 5.09 per cent.

Losers were Reliance Industries Limited (RELIANCE) and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) by 1.32, and 0.10 per cent respectively.

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Stock Markets This Week: Sensex gains 2.37%

Stock Markets This Week: Sensex gains 2.37%

Stock markets this week  (Dec 26 - January 2, 2015) gained 2.37 per cent on hopes of much-awaited sectoral reforms and encouraging manufacturing output data for December by HSBC Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI).

The benchmark BSE Sensex settled at a four week high while NSE Nifty surged to near 8,400 points this week.

The political uncertainty in Greece and New Year eve holidays in Asian stock markets moderated the equity market in India two days in this week.


The sentiment of investors was high as speculations were buzzing around for the much awaited banking reforms by the government. As expected, the government came out with some major decisions over the banking.

This week, the government has also announced to replace the 65 year old Planning Commission with NITI Aayog. This said to be major reform indication from the government of India. 

This week, the government appointed CEO & MD for four nationalized banks snapping the tradition as followed earlier. Under this the government has separated the role of Chairman for the banks. And moreover, the government may give autonomous to banks.

The HSBC Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for December provided a major push to stock markets on the last trading day of the week.

The BSE Sensex resumed the week higher at 27,247.78 points on December 26. It moved to 27,395.73 points on December 29, 2014 - 27,403.54 points on December 30 – 27,499.42 points on December 31 – 27,507.54 on January 1, 2015 and on January 2, it surged to 27,887.90 points.

The Sensex gained 646.12 points or 2.37 per cent in the week.

The wide-based 50-issue CNX Nifty of the NSE traded between 8,410and 8,214before ending the week at 8,395.45 points, at net gain of 194.75 points or 2.37 per cent in the week.

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Stock Market Business Good for You?

Stock market business has been luring new and old investors toward the share and scrips for many decades.

Stock market in India, has been consider as equal to betting, where people do fear about losing more than the quantity of gain.

In reality, stock market is same as we have negative impression about it.

Stock market is the one kind of business, that everybody should love to do.

The first logic is that, companies are the main aspect in stock market, where they sell their stock or scrip (may not necessarily directly).

The term company is closely associated with profit or profit making in general or business sense.

If a start up company could become one successful company after listing at stock market, then the stock or scrips of the same company would be gaining much.

Ultimately, the stock holder or investors would be getting high price for the exchange of stock and dividend as decided by the board of directors of the company.

In stock market, how a lay-man would gain money?

Well, for that they need to purchase stock and do need to monitor the price of the share or stock they have purchased.

Simply, if the share is traded on higher price simply sell it, else hold it to see if it would be traded more than the value, you fixed to sell.

And if the share is losing is value in the stock market, then sell it, get your money back.

Interesting thing about stock market is that, you can suffer loss, but you are going to get back the money, and that would be the same as if you lent money to any person.

Why not invest in banks rather putting into risky stock market?

Right, this assumption is right, seldom anybody would agree to take the risk in stock market. But the fact is that, those are ready to take the risk, they win and lose in stock market.

Another factor is that, one can get more interest return for their investment in stock market, but not always.

There share in stock market are just like products, you need to keep those and trade for a profit, and loss is inevitable in business.

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BSE Sensex and Nifty in Green till Noon

Business News: Day after the Dussera, a major festival, on Thursday both BSE Sensex and Nifty were trading in green till noon. The Sensex was at 18761.05 point with up by 51.03 (0.27%) while Nifty was at 5704.95 points with up by 13.55 (0.24%) till 1pm.

The last Thursday is the expiry day for the futures, so there was seen more trading of futures and options in the stock market. Oil, Gas, and Metal stocks pushed the Sensex and helped to maintain the gain. However, the BSE IT was bit in red during the noon, it lost by 0.01 % to 0.8 point at 5696.79 points on Thursday noon.

BSEFC has been gaining the market,  as the it already gained 0.16% since the morning trading stated. The index was at 5831.64 point with up by 9.06 points by noon on Thursday.

BSEPSU scrips were seen in red which were down by 2.32 points to 7357.25 points (-0.03%) on Thursday.

Oil Gas scrips were in green at 8500.53 point with up by 44.09 points (0.52%); Metal stocks were up by 33.08 per cent to 10288.81 points(0.32%) till this report is being published.

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Sensex plunges below 17,000 points

Business News: The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Sensex on Friday plunged below the 17,000 points at 16,831.08 points. The BSE Sensex fell by 320.11 points on the last day of the week. It was the third consecutive loss that pushed the Sensex to the four months lowest figures.

The NSE - Nifty too shed 101 points and closed at 5,086.85 on the last day of the week. Experts believe that due to the selling pressure from the foreign institutional investors and weak rupees the Sensex and Nifty plunged.

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Sensex up 358 points; Nifty by 113 points

Business News: Friday trading was proved very successful for the investors those traded with BSE and NSE after a day of holiday. The BSE Sensex touched 17,503.24 points at the end of Friday gaining around 358 points. While Nifty also gained around 113 points at 5,333.55.

The major factors that made both the stock markets in green were - the easing Grees debt crisis and low inflation in China. The FIIS booked the blue chip scrips from the market making the market with strong that snapped the last three red sessions.

The gaining of the BSE Sensex and Nifty indicate that the strong fundamentals and global cues restored the confidence of the investors in the stock market.

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BSE Sensex touches 18k Points

Business News: On Wednesday the BSE Sensex touched the 18,000 points level after six months. It indicates that investors gained confidence in the Indian stock market and Indian economy. Due to the global cues the stock market has been training. But the gaining of around 353.84 points this week helped the stock market to touch the confidential mark of 18,000 points.

Hike in the BSE Sensex benchmark points will help to understand the economy and the confidence of investors and FIIs in Indian economy. It not only achieved the psychological mark but also gave strong indication of improving economy.

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Sensex shed 309.77points due to weak IIP and Infosys Q1 Result

The second day of the week was not proved good for investors as well as the BSE Sensex, which shed 309.77points and closed at 18411.62 points. Nifty was closed at 5526.15 points with down 89.95 points.

The markets were volatile on the day, but the results of the quarter one of Infosys disappointed the investors. The trading of the shares of Infosys, the major software company of India, weighs around 20 per cent on the BSE Sensex.

Another major drawback for the stock market was the IIP data - industrial output has decreased to 5.6 per cent in May. The major sector - mining also reported a growth rate of 5.6 percent. The sector covers around 70 per cent of industrial output in India.

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Sensex closes above 19,000

A good time for the investors, as the BSE Sensex touched 19k psychological mark and also crossed it on Thursday.

Today Sensex was closed at 19,078 points with 351 point up following the global cues and investors good trading practice favored the market.

The Nifty was also ended in green note with around 100 points up and closed at 5,728.95 points on Thursday.

Stocks of Reliance Industries surged around 2 per cent following the RIL-BP deal over the purchase of stake, which the Cabinet will vet in the next week. The deal also got approval from the home ministry.

FIIs purchased worth Rs 868.71 crore on Thursday which helped the stock market to regain its glory mark of 19,000 points.

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Sensex Ends at 16,286.32 with 64 points up

Business News This Week : The BSE Sensex was tough seen green today but not big difference was there during the closing hours. The Sensex was ended at 16,286.32 with just 64 points up. There market was full of volatile on Tuesday, and the investors were in mood for safe investments. The market was opened at 16,213.14 points and ended at 16,286.32 points. During the trade, the Sensex was seen at highest of 16,324.93 and lowest of 16,178.91.

During the complete trading session, around 1.34 crores shares were traded with the turn over of Rs 685.32 crores. On Tuesday, the full market capitalization and free float capitalization were recorded at Rs 2,455,390.35 crores and Rs 1,225,367.06 crores respectively.

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