Stocks This Week: BSE Sensex Zooms 663 points, Nifty 229 points

A surprise rate cut by the apex bank this week provided a big push to the stock markets and sent the key indices soaring to nearly one-and-a-half months high. This week stocks gained were realty, banking, and auto.

The benchmark S&P BSE Sensex gained over 663 points to end at one-and-a-half months high of 28,121.89 points. Similarly, the wide-based CNX Nifty of the NSE crossed 8500-mark for the first time after a month and ended at 8130.80, a gain of 229 points or 2.77 per cent, over the last weekend close.

The RBI on Thursday morning lowered the benchmark repurchase rate (repo) under the liquidity adjustment facility by 25 bps to 7.75 per cent, the first reduction since May 2013, on easing inflation.

On, that day, the BSE Sensex registered its biggest single-day rally in over five years and zoomed a whopping 728.73 points or 2.66 per cent on massive across-the-board buying. Fall in the report rate may provide leeway to banks to cut their lending rates to improve liquidity in hosing and auto-sector, leading to more off-take of money by public and corporate sectors. Soon after the RBI move, clutch of banks lowered their base rates including the biggie SBI, indicated they will follow suit.

Investor wealth reclaimed that Rws100-lakh crore mark for the second time. However, it was for the frist time it remained above that level at close of trading.

During the week, investors got rich by Rs3, 11,737 crore. The BSESensex resumed the week on firm note but fell to a low of 27,203.25 points in the mid-week on drop in the brent crude prices of $45 a barrel, a six year low, amid ebbing hopes of a rate cut after retail inflation slightly rose to 5 per cent in December and Index of Industrial Production (IIP) grew 3.8 per cent in November.

Besides realty, banking and auto shares stocks from capital goods, FMCG, power, consumer durable and IT also attracted good buying interest while metal and refinery counter were at the receiving end. Metal stocks suffered the most following slowdown in Chinese economy. Meanwhile, the trade deficit narrowed to 10 month low in December 2014 on fall in importers while exporter also decline in December 2014 over December 2011.

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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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Stock Markets Update: BSE down by 0.24 percent, Nifty down by 0.17 percent @2:30pm

Today, the stock markets were in sluggish and turned red, BSE Sensex was at
26,343.45 points (-77.22), down by 0.29% at 2:40 pm. And Nifty was at 7881.65 points
(-15.58) down by 0.20 per cent.

The index was closed at 26420.67 points on Tuesday. In the intra-day the markets touched the high of 26504.52 points. and dipped to low at 26302.14 points.

Top gainers in Sensex 30 were Sun Pharmaceutical (844.90, 35.15, 4.34%), Cipla (495.00, 20.45, 4.31%), Tata Power (94.85, 2.25, 2.43%), Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. (2,891.05, 61.30, 2.17%), BHEL (231.05, 3.50, 1.54%),  Wipro Ltd. (553.25, 5.85, 1.07%), NTPC (145.35, 1.45, 1.01%).

Pharmaceuticals sectors scrips were seen in green, most of the scrips gain good return for the investors.

Top gainers in Nifty 50 were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., CIPLA Ltd., Lupin, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Tata Power, Dr Reddy's Lab, Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd, Wipro Ltd, NTPC Ltd., HCL Technologies Ltd., United Spirits at 2:30pm.

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Stock Market: Sensex down 24 pts, Nifty shed 5pts

The stock market in India on Monday witness steep fall, both BSE Sensex and Nifty were ended in red. The BSE Sensex was ended at 19460 by losing around 24 points (0.12%).

At closing, Nifty was at 5,897 points with 5.65 points down (0.10%). Both the markets were seen gaining –turning into green during post lunch session, but could not maintain the momentum, ended in red.

At Sensex, volume toppers were SBI, ICICIBank, TCS, Infosys and Tata Motors and 13 scrips were advanced in the entire day while 17 scrips recorded down.

Major gainers were MMTC, Hindustan Copp, Indian Bank, Cipla and Oberoi Realty. And losers were Cadila Health, Astrazeneca Phar, Financial Tech, United Brew-$ and Jain Irrigation.

At Nifty, major gainers were CIPLA, AXISBANK, HINDALCO, TATAMOTORS and DRREDDY. Losers were ACC, JINDALSTEL, IDFC, MARUTI, and ONGC.

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BSE Sensex ends in Green with 111.13 point up

Business News: The Bombay Stock Exchange's sensational index Sensex ended in green today, on the first day trading of the week.

The BSE Sensex ended at 18793.44 with 113.13 points with up @ 0.59 per cent gain on the day trading.

Major stocks and scrips were in seen green  entire day bringing cheers to the investors there were anticipating a big change in the market on the first day of the week.

The BSE100 (5723.70) was up by 0.52 per cent with 29.5 points, BSE200 index was up by 0.48 per cent with 11.09 point up at 2318.41, BSE500 was seen gaining 0.42 per cent  with 30.31 points making the figure to 7244.33.

The other index were BSE IT was also up by 0.84 per cent at 5748.02 point gaining 47.65 points.

However,the BSEFMC was not good option for the FMCG investors, those lost by 0.51 per cent in the share value, the index lost 30 points and closed at 5871.97.

Similarly, BSE CD was down by 0.46 per cent to 7299.83 points by 33.93 point in red.

And BSE PSU was also seen volatile, which later in the day ended in red with 0.01 per cent, down by 1.1 points to 7373.51 points.

Due to the quarterly results by banks, the Bankex was up by 1.0 per cent with 132.32 point up at 13325.37. Auto and metal stocks were down by 0.18 per cent and 0.08 per cent. While the Oil and Gas stocks gained 0.73 per cent in the market on Monday trading.

Nifty was up by 32.90 pints (0.58 per cent) at 5717.15 points, on Monday, October 22, 2012.

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