Rahul Agarwal, VP, Institutional Sales, LKP Shares stated that today the stock market saw a big improvement of 4.5%. It reflected the worldwide movement and it depressed on the back of a firmer Yen and global disentangling.
Mr. Agarwal anticipates the securities market to rectify further and touch 14,000 level. On Friday (August 17), markets may remain pessimistic due to sharp fall in valuations. He suggests that buying in the some fundamentally strong stocks is the best bet at this downfall. The stocks include Reliance Industries, Reliance Communications, Reliance Energy, Tata Power and Bharti Airtel.

Today, Grasim Industries is quoting at Rs 2,776, down Rs 102.7, or 3.57%, and touched an intraday high of Rs 2,845 and an intraday low of Rs 2,740.

The trading volume of the scrip is 19,597 shares. Yesterday the share ended weak at Rs 2,878.70 after losing 57.85 points.

With weak worldwide markets activating a substantial sales event, the Sensex plunged over 650 p

In a bid, Japan`s central bank pumped-up 400 billion yen into money markets to control an advancement in short-term interest rates accompanying immense withdrawals in the last two days.

This is the bank’s third activity in the last 7 days amongst international concerns about US mortgages crisis.

Portfolio Manager, PN Vijay suggests investors to purchase Bharti Airtel, State Bank of India, SBI, Reliance Industries with a 6-12 month outlook.

In early trading, State Bank of India (SBI) is quoting at Rs 1,542.90, depressed Rs 72, or 4.46%. It also touched an intraday high of Rs 1,585 and an intraday low of Rs 1,518.60.