Sharp volatility was witnessed as key benchmark indices wiped off almost entire day's gains in late trade. The barometer index, the S&P BSE Sensex, rose 33.50 points or 0.13% at 25,875.42, as per the provisional closing data. The Nifty 50 index rose 13.80 points, or 0.18% to 7,856.55, as per the provisional closing data. The Sensex fell below the psychological 26,000 mark after breaching that level in mid-morning trade.
The BSE Sensex rose 216.84 points, or 0.84% at the day's high of 26,058.76 in early afternoon trade, its highest level since 10 November 2015. The Nifty 50 index rose 64.20 points, or 0.82% at the day's high of 7,906.95 in mid-afternoon trade, its highest level since 9 November 2015. Earlier, the BSE Sensex fell 72.11 points, or 0.28% at the day's low of 25,769.81 in morning trade. The Nifty 50 index fell 24.95 points, or 0.32% at the day's low of 7,817.80 in morning trade.
In overseas stock markets, European shares declined after hitting three-month highs in early trade. Asian markets were mostly trading higher. The main US stock indexes finished barely changed yesterday, 19 November 2015, after weakness in the health-care and energy sectors stunted gains.
Closer home, the market breadth indicating the overall health of the market was positive. On BSE, 1,449 shares rose and 1,202 shares fell. A total of 233 shares were unchanged. The BSE Mid-Cap index rose 0.86%. The BSE Small-Cap index rose 0.61%. Both these indices outperformed the Sensex.
The total turnover on BSE amounted to Rs 2926 crore, higher than turnover of Rs 2553.70 crore registered during the previous trading session.
Most auto shares edged higher. Maruti Suzuki (India) (up 1.87%), Bajaj Auto (up 1.75%), Mahindra & Mahindra (up 1.73%), Eicher Motors (up 1.58%), Escorts (up 0.74%) and Ashok Leyland (up 0.64%), edged higher. TVS Motor Company (down 0.15%), Tata Motors (down 0.8%) and Hero MotoCorp (down 1.01%), edged lower.
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Power generation stocks were mixed. Adani Power (up 2.47%), Reliance Infrastructure (up 1.84%), JSW Energy (up 1.23%), NHPC (up 0.53%), Jaiprakash Power Ventures (up 0.43%) and CESC (up 0.36%), edged higher. Tata Power (down 0.15%), Torrent Power (down 0.19%), Reliance Power (down 0.41%) and GMR Infrastructure (down 2.5%), edged lower.
NTPC rose 0.45% to Rs 134.35. The company said after market hours yesterday, 19 November 2015, that the company has mandated Barclays, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank AG, HSBC and SBI Capital Markets to arrange a series of fixed income investors meetings in London, Singapore and Hongkong commencing 23 November 2015. An offshore rupee denominated senior notes offering under 'Regulation S' may follow, subject to market conditions.
PTC India Financial Services (PFS) rose 1.82% to Rs 41.90. The company after market hours yesterday, 19 November 2015, announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India Infrastructure Finance Company (IIFCL) to provide financing for infrastructure projects in India. As per the agreement, PFS and IIFCL will come together to provide one single window to promoters of infrastructure projects particularly in energy value chain and facilitate their financing in India. Both companies will collaborate to provide credit enhancement facility to various projects to enable their financing at competitive rates, apart from collaborating in areas of mutual interest towards service to infrastructure sector, PFS said in a statement.
On the economic front, the Seventh Central Pay Commission has proposed a hefty 23.55% hike in salary, allowances and pension for 4.8 million government employees and 5.5 million pensioners. If accepted, the recommendations of the commission, headed by retired judge A K Mathur, would be effective from 1 January 2016, the Ministry of Finance said in a statement yesterday, 19 November 2015. The total financial impact would be Rs 1.02 lakh crore during FY 2016-17. Of the total financial impact of Rs 1.02 lakh crore, Rs 73650 crore will be borne by the General Budget and Rs 28450 crore by the Railway Budget, the statement said.
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