Saturday, April 5, 2008

Markets closes near to low of day

Negative newsflows have spooked the markets badly today. Rising inflation and due to which rumours of likely hike in CRR by RBI worried the markets. Capital Goods, power, banks, telecom and auto stocks were worst hit. All BSE Indices ended with sharp fall. Market breadth has remained 1:4 after inflation announcement.

This whole week has been very bad for the markets, Sensex lost more than 1000 points and the Nifty down 5.2%. Capital goods, metals, realty and banking stocks were the biggest losers.

Inflation has worried the markets, it has hit a three-year high of 7% this week as against 6.68% in the previous week. Government has been trying ways to cool off the inflation because it has crossed RBI's targeted 5% level. Experts feel that monetary tightening may be there in near term from RBI by way of CRR hike. These fears has hammered banking stocks a lot.

The Sensex has touched a low of 15,303.04 (down 528 points) before closing the day at 15,343.12, down 489.43 points or 3.09% and the Nifty down 2.61% or 124.60 points at 4647.

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