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Market declines further
The Indian stock market continued to fall, with both the Sensex and Nifty
ending the week 2.3% lower. The week began on a weak note, with reports
of North Korea shelling South Korean troops, which sent jitters throughout
global markets, including India. During mid-week, a housing loan scam
broke out, which saw the arrest of top personnel of some public-listed banks.
This weighed heavily on investors’ minds, particularly affecting real estate
and construction players, as well as banks that were dragged into the scam.
This negative sentiment was maintained through the remaining week, with
the market further losing ground. BSE mid-cap and small-cap indices fell
even more compared to large-cap indices, with the mid-cap index falling
by 5.8% and the small-cap index falling by 7.0%. The BSE realty index was
the biggest loser yet again, crashing by 13.6%, partly due to the housingrelated
scam. It was followed by the BSE metal index, which fell by 6.4%.
The star of the week was the BSE IT sector, which gained 2.0%.
IT index resilient amidst mire
The IT index rose 2% during the week, widely outperforming the Sensex. The
top gainers were Mphasis (4.3%), HCL Tech (4.2%), TCS (2.7%), Infosys (2.5%)
and Wipro (1.2%). This sharp movement was seen due to positive global
cues such as rupee depreciating against the USD by 1.1% wow to 45.7. Also,
the European manufacturing index came in at a positive note at 54.6 for
October v/s 53.7 for September, envisaging on improving business landscape
for European clients. US GDP growth for 3QCY2010 also came in higher at
2.5% yoy v/s 1.7% yoy in 2QCY2010 due to improving consumer spending.
Further, the manufacturing activity index of the Federal Reserve Bank of
Richmond rose to 9 in November from October's reading of 5. Amongst
large caps, we like TCS and HCL Tech. Amongst mid caps, we prefer Mphasis.
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