Tuesday 7 October 2008

Mkts highly volatile; Europe off highs

Markets are trading with extreme choppiness. Realty, oil & gas and power stocks are witnessing good buying interest while FMCG, capital goods, pharma and metal stocks witnessing selling pressure. The BSE midcap and smallcap indices are down over 1%.

On the global front, Europen markets trading in green but off days high. CAC 40 up 1.31% at 3760, DAX up 0.09% at 5391 and FTSE up 0.53% at 4613.

At 1.27 pm, the Sensex is down 22.99 points or 0.19% at 11778.71, and the Nifty up 33.85 points or 0.94% at 3636.20.

About 986 shares have advanced, 1967 shares declined, and 229 shares are unchanged.

Top gainers on the Sensex are Ranbaxy Labs at Rs 257 up 4.28%, DLF at Rs 311 up 3.10% and NTPC at Rs 173.80 up 3.02%.

However, top losers on the Sensex are L&T at Rs 1,024 down 5.47%, ITC at Rs 171.30 down 4.89% and M&M at Rs 482 down 4.05%.

Source: MoneyControl

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