03:30pm Market Closing
Profit booking continued for another session on Monday with the Sensex
losing 338.70 points or 1.19 percent to 28119.40 and the Nifty falling 100.05
points or 1.17 percent to 8438.25.
The broader markets dropped too; the BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices slipped
1.2 percent and 0.9 percent, respectively. About 1141 shares advanced and 1803
shares declined on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Infosys topped the selling list, down 4.84 percent followed by Sesa
Sterlite, M&M, BPCL, Jindal Steel, Hindalco and TCS with 2.5-4 percent
loss.
However, Coal India, ITC, Bharti Airtel, Cipla, Sun Pharma, Asian Paints,
UltraTech Cement and ONGC bucked the trend, up 0.7-2.2 percent.
SpiceJet, Arvind, Alembic, BEML, NCC, Bombay Dyeing, Ashok Leyalnd, REC,
Idea Cellular, Dish TV, JK Tyre and Crompton Greaves were top midcap losers,
down 3-5 percent. However, Jet Airways, Pipavav Defense, JBF Industries, Suzlon
and Sintex gained 3-10 percent.
03:15pm GVK in Focus
French bank Societe Generale has decided to suspend its involvement as an
adviser in raising finance for the city-headquartered GVK group's Hancock Coal
project in Australia.
According to a statement in the official twitter account of the French bank, "delay" in executing the project is the main reason for its opting out.
"In the context of the Alpha Coal project's delay, Societe Generale has
decided, in agreement with GVK-Hancock, to suspend its mandate. The bank has
therefore no involvement with the project," the Paris-based lender said.
Reacting to the announcement, GVK Hancock today said, "GVK Hancock has
been working with Societe Generale on a specific element of the financing
arrangements for our
projects, but is not currently working on that specific work package and as such does not require their services at this time.
projects, but is not currently working on that specific work package and as such does not require their services at this time.
"The key focus for our projects at this point in time is finalising our
approvals and addressing litigious challenges to our attained approvals,"
said Josh Euler, manager,
corporate affairs, GVK Hancock Coal Pty Ltd.
corporate affairs, GVK Hancock Coal Pty Ltd.
GVK had, in 2011, acquired 79 percent stake in Alpha Coal and Alpha West
Coal Project and 100 percent stake in the Kevin's Corner Project, Queensland,
from Hancock Coal Pty Ltd, reports PTI.
03:00pm ONGC in News
The Sensex fell 325.43 points or 1.14 percent to 28132.67 and the Nifty
dropped 96.35 points or 1.13 percent to 8441.95. About 1052 shares have
advanced, 1815 shares declined, and 119 shares are unchanged.
In a big boost to ONGC, the Oil Ministry is reworking the fuel subsidy
sharing formula to cut its payout by a quarter through adjustment of statutory
oil cess against its share.
According to a new subsidy sharing formula, the payout of upstream oil
producers like ONGC is to be reduced to the extent of Rs 4,500 per tonne oil
development cess they pay to the government, sources privy to the development
said.
The move to lessen the subsidy burden will give a flip to government's plan
to sell 5 percent stake in Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) to garner about Rs
17,000 crore.
The cess in current fiscal will total Rs 10,500 crore and after accounting
for Rs 31,926 crore that upstream firms ONGC and Oil India (OIL) have
already paid in fuel subsidy in first half, their payout in remainder of the
current fiscal will be no more than Rs 8,000 crore, reports PTI.
02:45pm CAD to be announced today
Current account deficit for Q2FY15 will be announced later in the day
today. According to the estimates of economists polled by CNBC-TV18, CAD could
widen to around USD 10 billion in Q2 compared to USD 7.8 billion in previous
quarter.
This is assuming widening of the trade deficit sequentially to USD 37.3
bilion in Q2FY15 from USD 33.1 billion, along with accounting for trade surplus
in services at USD 17.8 billion and assuming remittances and investment came in
unchanged Q-o-Q.
02:30pm Sesa Sterlite under pressure
Brokerage house Bank of America Merrill Lynch has cut its earnings estimates
for metal and mining major Sesa Sterlite, and also the price target, citing
falling crude and iron ore prices.
The brokerage has lowered earnings estimates for FY15-FY16 by 10-33 percent,
and price target to Rs 268 from Rs 283 earlier.
“Sesa Sterlite offers leverage to our positive zinc and aluminium view. It
should also gain from stronger zinc volume sequentially in second half (vs.
first half) and the ramp-up of unproductive power and aluminium assets,” said
the BofA note to clients.
“However, the weaker Cairn earnings outlook and coal cost pressure will
dampen group profits, in our view. if oil stays at USD70/bbl, we estimate that
there could be a further 11 percent downside to our FY16E EBITDA and 28 percent
downside to our FY16e EPS (for Cairn),” the report said.
02:00pm Market Check
The market remained under pressure with the Sensex falling 281.74 points or
0.99 percent to 28176.36 and the Nifty losing 90.45 points or 1.06 percent to
8447.85, dragged by banks, technology, auto, metals and capital goods stocks.
The BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices fell nearly 0.9 percent. The market
breadth was negative with the 1750 shares declining for 1075 shares advancing
on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Infosys slipped nearly 5 percent as 3.3 crore shares were traded in multiple
blocks this morning in the price range of Rs 1,988 to Rs 2014. Reports
indicated that the founders offloaded stake worth USD 1.1 billion in the
company for personal, philanthropic reasons.
Shares of TCS, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Larsen & Toubro, Mahindra &
Mahindra, State Bank of India, Sesa Sterlite, Dr Reddy's Labs, Wipro, Tata
Steel, Hindalco Industries and BHEL were down 1-3 percent. However, ITC, ONGC,
Sun Pharma and Coal India bucked the trend, up 1-2 percent. More information
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