Key benchmarks were trading in a narrow range in morning trade. At 10:30 IST, the barometer index, the S&P BSE Sensex, was down 125.47 points or 0.34% at 36,343.96. The Nifty 50 index was down 40.55 points or 0.37% at 10,853.10. Mixed cues from other Asian stocks spoiled investors sentiment.
Among secondary barometers, the BSE Mid-Cap index was down 0.44%. The BSE Small-Cap index was down 0.72%.
The market breadth, indicating the overall health of the market, was negative. On BSE, 618 shares rose and 1292 shares fell. A total of 116 shares were unchanged.
Metal shares fell across the board. Tata Steel (down 3.15%), Hindalco Industries (down 2.54%), Hindustan Copper (down 2.39%), Steel Authority of India (down 2.38%), JSW Steel (down 1.44%), NMDC (down 1.15%), Jindal Steel & Power (down 0.89%), Vedanta (down 0.89%), National Aluminium Company (down 0.59%) and Hindustan Zinc (down 0.57%), edged lower.
Most FMCG shares advanced. Colgate Palmolive (India) (up 1.15%), GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (up 0.99%), Hindustan Unilever (up 0.93%), Dabur India (up 0.82%), Britannia Industries (up 0.76%), Procter & Gamble Hygiene & Health Care (up 0.63%), Nestle India (up 0.46%) and Bajaj Corp (up 0.08%), edged higher. Jyothy Laboratories (down 0.22%), Marico (down 0.32%), Tata Global Beverages (down 1.08%) and Godrej Consumer Products (down 1.4%), edged lower.
Titan Company surged 4.51% after consolidated net profit rose 43.49% to Rs 413.19 crore on 35.35% rise in total income to Rs 5934.11 crore in Q3 December 2018 over Q3 December 2017. The result was announced after market hours on Friday, 1 February 2019.
Titan Company said that there was an additional provision of Rs 70 crore in Q3 December 2018 made for investments as part of Treasury operations in inter corporate deposits in the IL&FS group. Titan Company retail chain is 1574 stores, as on 31 December 2018 with the retail area touching 2.02 million sq.ft. nationally for all the brands.
Bhaskar Bhat, Managing Director of Titan Company said that the festive quarter of 2018-19 turned out to be one of the best quarters for jewellery as well as for other businesses - watches and eyewear.
On the economic front, the total gross GST revenue collected in the month of January 2019 stood at Rs 1,02,503 crore, of which CGST is Rs 17,763 crore, SGST is Rs 24,826 crore, IGST is Rs 51,225 crore (including Rs 24,065 crore collected on imports) and Cess is Rs 8,690 crore (including Rs 902 crore collected on imports). In FY 2018-2019, it is for the third time that GST revenue collection has crossed one lakh crore. The total number of GSTR 3B Returns filed for the month of December up to 31 January 2019 is 73.3 lakh.
The government has settled Rs 18,344 crore to CGST and Rs 14,677 crore to SGST from IGST as regular settlement. The total revenue earned by Central Government and the State Governments after regular settlement in the month of December, 2018 is Rs 36,107 crore for CGST and Rs 39,503 crore for the SGST.
The collection in January 2019 is a significant increase from the collection of Rs 94,725 crore in December 2018, which was a decline from Rs 97,637 crore in November and Rs 1,00,710 crore in October. January 2019 collections are 14% above the January 2018 collections of Rs 89,825 crore. This jump has been achieved despite various tax reductions having come into force that provided major relief to the consumers. The gross GST collections over the last three-month period has been 14% higher than the corresponding period last year, Ministry of Finance said in a statement on 2 February 2019.
Overseas, Asian markets were mixed on Monday. China's financial markets are closed all week for the Lunar New Year holiday.
US stocks managed to close mostly higher Friday after an unexpectedly strong January jobs report. The US economy created 304,000 new jobs in January. At the same time, job growth for December was reduce by 90,000, somewhat blunting the impact of the headline number.
Among other data in the US, the ISM manufacturing index's final reading for January came in at 56.6%, above the initial reading of 54.1%. The IHS Markit final US manufacturing purchasing managers index reading came in at 54.9 in January, up from 53.8 in December.
The University of Michigan raised its reading of consumer sentiment for January from an initial print of 90.7 to 91.2. That compares to a 98.3 reading for December and was the worst final reading since Donald Trump was elected president.
Construction spending rose in November, up 0.8% from October to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.2 trillion, the Commerce Department said Friday morning in a release that was delayed due to the government shutdown.
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