BSE highlights for today

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As Bombay Stock Exchange witnessed a lackluster day today, Following are the major news from the Bombay Stock Exchange for today:
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1. Stock Prices of Mahindra Satyam are up by over 2 percent today at BSE.
2. ADAG Group has investment plans for some 125000 crore lined up moving Reliance power and RCom up today at BSE.
3. HDFC bank stocks down by over 1 percent.
4. Seimens, ABB stock prices rises.
5. Price hike news boosts mahindra and Mahindra up by 2.5 percent

HAPPY TRADING!!

BSE | NIFTY surges 17 perc and 17.5 perc resp

Trading in Indian stocks was halted Monday after shares in key benchmarks surged more than 17%  triggering market circuit breaker rules.

India's surge helped boost sentiment in other regional markets. While Japanese shares closed lower, before the start of Indian trading, exchanges open later, including Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore all ended higher.

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The Sensex closed 17.3% higher at 14,284.21, while the 50-stock S&P CNX Nifty rallied 17.7% to 4,323.15.

"The election in India is showing a clear mandate there, and probably underlines to a lot of investors there that Asia is going to be the growth area for the next six to nine months, whereas growth in Europe and U.S. could take much longer," said Andrew Sullivan, a sales trader at Main First Securities in Hong Kong.

Minutes after the opening, the 30-stock Sensitive Index, or Sensex, rose 10.7% while the National Stock Exchange Nifty rose 14.5%, triggering a two-hour trading suspension. Immediately at the resumption of trade, shares surged further, prompting a trading suspension for the rest of the day.

"A pro-reform/stable government is just what India needs, amid signs of economic expectations bottoming out, to inspire investor confidence. We have argued that the stability of the newly-elected government, rather than the coalition dynamics, would be crucial for" sentiment, said analysts at Standard Chartered.

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Some market observers were disappointed, however. Sharmila Joshi, an investment adviser in Mumbai, said "I have never seen anything like this... These kind of gap-up openings are ultimately bad for the market, as they don't give one a chance to participate. Today, it was impossible to participate."

Among the big gainers, shares of market heavyweight Reliance Industries climbed 20.6% and ICICI Bank advanced 25.4%, while property major DLF gained 25.9%.

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The local currency also surged, with the U.S. dollar recently down to 47.96 rupees from a previous close of 49.38 rupees.

Morgan Stanley raised its earnings estimate and Sensex targets after the poll outcome. Analysts there said they now expect the Sensex companies to post aggregate earnings growth of 2.5%, compared with a prior forecast of a 10% contraction, this fiscal year. Morgan Stanley raised its Sensex target for 2009 to 15,300.

Saturday, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance secured 262 seats out of the 543 up for grabs, falling just short of the 272 majority mark. The alliance is expected to make up the difference with support from smaller parties and independents. The outcome beat the most optimistic exit polls.

NSE keeps circuit limit unchanged

The National Stock Exchange (NSE) on Monday said it has kept its circuit filters unchanged and trading will come to a halt if benchmark index Nifty rises or falls by 300 points in a day.

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"The existing policy will continue to govern trading on the exchanges. Accordingly, the first level of the circuit breaker at 10 per cent will be triggered at 300 points for Nifty and 975 for Sensex over the respective closing level of the indices today," the NSE said in a statement.

The announcement by NSE came in after the market authorities had to halt the trading - initially for two hours and later for the entire day - as the rules do not permit the trade to continue if a single-day gain exceed 20 per cent in either of the two benchmark indices, Sensex and Nifty.

The 50-share Nifty today soared 531.65 points in the opening trade which led to the regulators closing the equity and equity derivatives market closed for two hours. Following opening, Nifty further went up 651.50 points to 4,323.15, which triggered a halt for the day.

This circuit breaker brings about a coordinated trading halt in all equity and equity derivative markets nationwide and
are triggered by movement of either Sensex or Nifty, whichever is breached earlier.

Also the Sensex today soared by 2,111 points to close at 14,284.21 points. It had surged 1,760 points at 13,963, hitting the upper circuit following which trading was halted for two hours. After the trading was resumed, the Sensex soared 806 points at 14,284.21 triggering a halt for the day.

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On March 31, 2008, the last trading day of the quarter, Sensex closed at 9,708.50 points. The absolute points of Sensex variation which would trigger market wide circuit breaker for any day in the quarter between April 1 and June 30 would be 975 points for first 10 per cent trigger point, 1,450 points for the second 15 per cent trigger point and 1,950 points for the final 20 per cent trigger.

Similarly for the Nifty, the three trigger points in the current quarter would be 300 points, 440 points and 600 points - based on a closing level of 3,020.95 points on March 31. In case of a 10 per cent movement of either of these indices, there would be a one hour market halt if the movement takes place before 1 pm.

In case of a 15 per cent movement of either index, there will be a two hour market halt if the movement takes place before 1 pm. If the 15 per cent trigger is reached on or after 1 pm but before 2 pm, there will be a one hour halt. If the 15 per cent trigger is reached on or after 2 pm the trading will halt for the remainder of the day.

In case of a 20 per cent movement of the index, the trading will be halted for the remainder of the day.

Sensex may fall to 11450 if 11750 is breached

One of the reputed securities firm advises investors to be a gradual investor at major support levels like 3510 and 3350 on the Nifty with a medium term view in mind. On intra-day basis, it expects the Sensex to trip to 11450 if it fails to hold on to 11750 support. Here one can take fresh long trades and make partial investments in the market.

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“The market remained in a very narrow range through out the week with a huge volatility inside the range. This suggests us that the market is at paused levels and is deciding which side the go. However, the break of range on the "lower side" will readjust the prices of many index heavy weights and may strengthen the current on going trend of the market. On failure to do so and upward break out may compel long traders to trade long with a high risk in the market.

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Here we are calling it "high risk" for long traders because, the risk reward ratio is not suitable to trade long above 3700/ 12300 levels in the near term as the confidence levels may below above those levels. If we take the reading of major oscillators then we may say that they are diverging negatively to the price. Second, the prices are at their major resistance levels without any major correction since 3300 levels. Third the final countdown to the current elections will start and that will keep the sentiment mixed at higher levels. And last but not least is that the world markets are also on the verge of completion of the current rally as they are also near to their major resistance levels and are due for temporary correction in the near term.