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Key barometers extended gains and hit fresh intraday high in mid-afternoon trade. At 14:21 IST, the barometer index, the S&P BSE Sensex, was up 255.63 points or 0.68% at 37,900.53. The Nifty 50 index was up 83.25 points or 0.73% at 11,439. Buying support emerged on bargain hunting after two sessions of losses.

Indices opened higher and firmed up as the session progressed. The Sensex rose 287.50 points, or 0.76% at the day's high of 37,932.40 in mid-afternoon trade. The index rose 44.81 points, or 0.12% at the day's low of 37,689.71 at the onset of trading session. The Nifty rose 96.70 points, or 0.85% at the day's high of 11,452.45 in mid-afternoon trade. The index rose 15.05 points, or 0.13% at the day's low of 11,370.80 at the onset of trading session.

 

Among secondary barometers, the BSE Mid-Cap index was up 0.42%. The BSE Small-Cap index was up 0.27%. Both these indices underperformed the Sensex.

The market breadth, indicating the overall health of the market, was negative. On BSE, 1217 shares rose and 1369 shares fell. A total of 141 shares were unchanged.

Capital goods shares were mixed. Reliance Defence and Engineering (down 5%), Thermax (down 1.98%), Crompton Greaves (down 1.23%), Praj Industries (down 1.17%), Bharat Electronics (down 1.11%), SKF India (down 1.05%), Punj Lloyd (down 0.67%), Jindal Saw (down 0.51%), Bharat Heavy Electricals (down 0.48%), Suzlon Energy (down 0.42%), ABB India (down 0.4%), Siemens (down 0.3%) and BEML (down 0.22%), edged lower. Lakshmi Machine Works (up 0.59%), GE T&D India (up 1.37%), Havells India (up 1.49%), GE Power India (up 3.01%) and AIA Engineering (up 3.45%), edged higher.

Engineering and construction major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) was down 0.52%.

Auto shares were mixed. Eicher Motors (up 2.26%), Escorts (up 2.02%), Maruti Suzuki India (up 0.64%), Mahindra & Mahindra (up 0.28%) and Bajaj Auto (up 0.18%), edged higher. Ashok Leyland (down 0.04%), Tata Motors (down 0.14%), TVS Motor Company (down 0.38%) and Hero MotoCorp (down 0.88%), edged lower.

On the macro front, the annual rate of inflation, based on monthly Wholesale Price Index (WPI), stood at 5.09% (provisional) for the month of July 2018 (over July 2017) as compared to 5.77% (provisional) for the previous month and 1.88% during the corresponding month of the previous year. The Ministry of Commerce & Industry unveiled the data during trading hours today, 14 August 2018.

The all-India general Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation dipped to nine-month low of 4.17% in July 2018 (new base 2012=100), compared with 4.92% in June 2018. The CPI inflation figure for June 2018 is revised downwards to 4.9% from 5.0% reported earlier. The corresponding provisional inflation rate for rural area was 4.11% and urban area 4.32% in July 2018 as against 4.93% and 4.85% in June 2018. The data was announced after market hours yesterday, 13 August 2018.

Overseas, European stocks nudged higher on the strength of banking and basic resource sector stocks as investors appeared more sanguine over the nature of their exposure to the Turkish economy. A stronger-than-expected reading of 0.5% for second quarter GDP in Germany, the region's biggest economy, along with an upwardly revised reading of 0.4% for the first three months of the year from the Federal Statistics Office, added to the bullish sentiment.

France's unemployment rate resumed its decline in the second quarter, after rising in first three months of the year. The unemployment rate in France--the eurozone's second-largest economy--fell to 9.1% in the quarter ended June 30 from 9.2% for the quarter ending March, national statistics agency Insee said Tuesday.

Asian shares were mixed as tremors from the collapse of the Turkish lira ebbed a little. Business activities in China cooled further in July, with investment slowing to a near two-decade low, official data showed. Fixed-asset investment in China's non-rural areas climbed 5.5% in the January-July period from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said Tuesday. Retail sales in China climbed 8.8% in July from a year earlier, slowing from a 9.0% on-year increase in June. Retail sales increased 0.67% in July from June. In June, retail sales rose a revised 0.74% from the previous month.

Value-added industrial output in China rose 6.0% in July from a year earlier, unchanged from the 6.0% increase in June. Industrial production rose 0.48% in July from June. In June, it rose 0.36% from May. A national urban survey unemployment rate stood at 5.1% last month, slightly higher than the 4.8% in June, the statistics bureau said.

US stocks settled with small losses Monday, with the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average down for a fourth straight session as the ongoing turmoil in Turkey dampened investors' appetite for riskier assets.

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First Published: Aug 14 2018 | 2:19 PM IST

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