Nifty slips below 17900, Sensex below 60000 in opening trade on Wednesday, Jan 11; Tata Motors shares rise 1% Domestic equity indices extended Tuesday’s losses and opened in red on Wednesday. BSE Sensex fell 138.75 points or 0.23% to 59,976.73 and NSE Nifty dipped 30.15 pts or 0.17% to 17,884.00 in the opening session. Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Tech Mahindra, Infosys and TCS were among the major gainers on Sensex, while Bharti Airtel, Hindustan Unilever, Mahindra & Mahindra, Reliance Industries Ltd, and Axis Bank were the losers. In the broader market, the BSE MidCap and SmallCap indices were trading flat with negative bias.NSE Sectoral Indices In the sectoral indices, Nifty Bank was down 0.53%, Nifty Pharma was down 0.43%, Nifty PSU Bank was down 1.15% and Nifty Auto was down 0.60% while Nifty IT rose 0.53%, Nifty Metal advanced 0.42%. The volatility index India VIX was up 3.75% at 16.09. Asian markets were trading higher today with Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index rising 1.29%, Shanghai Composite in mainland China climbing 0.27%, Japan’s Nikkei225 advanced 1.05% and Soth Korea’s KOSPI increased by 0.20%. Overnight, the US stock market ended the session in green. The S&P 500 rose 27.16 points or 0.70% to 3,919.25, the Nasdaq advanced 106.98 pts or 1.01% to 10,742.63 and the Dow closed 186.45 pts or 0.56% higher at 33,704.10. Foreign institutional investors (FII) sold shares worth a net Rs 2109.34 crore while domestic institutional investors (DII) bought shares worth a net Rs 1806.62 crore on Tuesday, January 10, 2023, according to the data available on NSE. The National Stock Exchange (NSE) banned the trading in futures and options (F&O) of up to two stocks/securities on Wednesday, January 11, 2023. Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited (GNFC) and Indiabulls Housing Finance are the stocks/securities placed on the National Stock Exchange’s futures and options (F&O) ban for trade on Wednesday.
However, he believes that the impact on the Indian market is going to be temporary since there could be some short-term impact on flows into Indian equity markets. But since the Indian economy is on a strong wicket and will continue to remain resilient.
“Improved fiscal situation, controlled current deficit, stable interest scenario combined with good corporate earnings should lead to limited impact on the Indian bond market and equity market too,” he added.
The midcap and smallcap indices took a bigger knock with the BSE MidCap fell 2.51%, while BSE SmallCap index dived 4.18%. According to Amnish Aggarwal, head, research, Prabhudas Lilladher, the valuations were already high and some correction was expected. “If the situation sustains as it is then further correction can’t be ruled out,” Aggarwal said.
Telecommunication and industrials indices were the top laggards with BSE Telecommunication declining 3.82%, followed by BSE Industrials falling 3.26%. JSW Steel (-2.99%), Tata Steel (-2.52%) and Tata Consultancy Services (-2.44%) were the top losers of Sensex.
Surprisingly, both foreign portfolio investors and domestic institutional investors were net buyers today. While, FPIs net bought shares worth Rs 252.25 crore, DIIs have purchased shares worth Rs 1,111.84 crore, as per provisional data from exchanges.
Calling this a “normal phenomena” Pankaj Pandey, head, research, ICICI Direct said, “I will not really give too much weight to a single day buying figure. Amid concerns of elevated interest rate and geopolitical tensions, in a typical market cycle, 8-10% correction is possible at any point in time.”
The brunt of geopolitical conflict, elevated interest rates and rising crude oil prices was also felt by other Asian- Pacific markets. Jakarta Composite Index lost 1.57% followed by Shanghai Composite Index and PSEi, which fell 1.47% and 0.89%, respectively. Nikkei and KOSPI declined 0.83% and 0.76%.