Market Round Up

The benchmark indices ended the week on a strong note as huge buying was witnessed in auto, metals and reality stocks. The Sensex closed at 15,379 up 148 points or 0.97% near the day’s high and the Nifty rose 0.99% or 45 points to settle at 4568 after hitting an intra-day high of 4,578.

The BSE smallcap and CNX midcap indices ended up 1.8 % and 1.6 % respectively. The July Nifty future ended with 9 points premium. For the week the Sensex ended with over 4 % gains.

Movers & Shakers

The BSE auto index soared 5.1 %. Bharat Forge zoomed 14 % to Rs 181 and Amtek Auto jumped 10.8 % to Rs 128. Tata Motors, Hero Honda and Maruti were the other gainers up 4-8%.

The realty index on the BSE was up 4.2 %. Parsvnath, DLF, Omaxe, Orbit Corp, HDIL, Ackruti City and Unitech gained 3-8%.

The metal index rose 2.4 %. Tata Steel and Jindal Saw were up nearly 6% each. Hindalco and Sterlite were up 3% each.

The BSE IT also gained 1.9 %. HCL Tech, Mphasis, Infosys, Tech Mahindra and TCS went up 1-4%.

In the Capital goods stocks like ABB, Punj Lloyd and BHEL gained 1.6-3.4%.

In the FMCG space, Godrej Consumer, Nestle, United Spirits, HUL and Britannia were up 2-5.7%

In the Oil & gas stocks like Cairn India and ONGC went up 3% each, while Reliance Ind was down -1.6%.

In the Sensex pack Tata Motors was the biggest gainer in the group up 9.7 % to Rs 373. DLF, Maruti Suzuki and Tata Steel were the other main gainers in the group, up over 6 %.