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Market Commentary 20 September 2017
Markets to make a flat-to-positive start on mixed regional cues


Tuesday turned out to be a choppy day of trade for Indian equity benchmarks, with frontline gauges ending slightly in red, as traders remained on sidelines ahead of the US Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan's meetings later this week. After a cautious start, frontline gauges traded near neutral lines swinging between green and red for most part of the day. Investors stayed away from picking any risky assets ahead of meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and other top officials to take stock of the situation and the discussion for remedial measures to bolster growth. PM will analyse the economic situation with Jaitley and secretaries of the finance ministry and explore options to stimulate the economy. Some concern also crept in the market on report that the Centre could be forced to cut infrastructure spending, as GST glitches have hit revenue. Lower-than-expected tax collections and sluggish growth have upset the government`s budget calculations. However, losses remained capped as traders took some solace with Moody's latest report that India is likely see increased foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on the back of reforms such as introduction of the goods and services tax and the bankruptcy code. Some support also came with Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari's statement that the government has managed to save bank loans worth Rs 300,000 crore to the road sector from turning into non-performing assets (NPAs). Finally, the BSE Sensex slipped 21.39 points or 0.07% to 32,402.37, while the CNX Nifty was down by 5.55 points or 0.05% to 10147.55.

 

The US markets closed higher on Tuesday, with all three main US stock indexes ending at all-time highs, as Federal Reserve policy makers began a two-day policy meeting in which they're expected to finalize the details of their plan to begin slowly shrinking the central bank's $4.5 trillion balance sheet. President Donald Trump gave his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, and at one point stated that the US was ready, willing and able to act against North Korea militarily, and that the US would totally destroy the country if necessary. Markets were little impacted by the speech. On the economy front, the US current account deficit jumped to its highest level since 2008 in the second quarter amid a decline in both secondary and primary income. The current account deficit, which measures the flow of goods, services and investments into and out of the country, increased to $123.1 billion from a downwardly revised $113.5 billion in the first quarter. That was the highest level since the fourth quarter of 2008. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 39.45 points or 0.18 percent to 22,370.80, the Nasdaq gained 6.68 points or 0.10 percent to 6,461.32 and the S&P 500 edged higher by 2.78 points or 0.11 percent to 2,506.65.

 

Crude oil futures coming off the highs of the day ended lower on Tuesday, as investors looked ahead to weekly data from the U.S. on stockpiles of crude and refined products to weigh what the impact of recent storm activity was on supply and demand. Crude oil initially rallied on comments from an Iraq oil minister saying that OPEC members are committed to cutting supplies through 2018, but a stronger dollar weighed on commodity prices. Benchmark crude oil futures for October delivery ended lower by 43 cents or 0.9 percent at $49.48 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude for October delivery fell by 0.42 cent to $55.06 a barrel on the ICE.

 

Indian rupee extending weakness for the second day depreciated against dollar on Tuesday due to increased demand for the American currency from banks and importers. Investors remained cautious ahead of the US Federal Reserve's two-day policy meeting beginning later today. Some cautiousness also crept ahead of meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and other top officials to take stock of the situation and the discussion for remedial measures to bolster growth. PM will analyze the economic situation with Jaitley and secretaries of the finance ministry and explore options to stimulate the economy. Besides, strength in the US dollar against some other currencies overseas coupled with lackluster trade in the equity markets also weighed on the sentiment of the domestic currency. Finally, the rupee ended at 64.32, 19 paise weaker from its previous close of 64.13 on Monday.

 

The FIIs as per Tuesday's data were net sellers in equity segment, while they were net buyers in debt segment. In equity segment, the gross buying was of Rs 3389.47 crore against gross selling of Rs 3468.29 crore, while in the debt segment, the gross purchase was of Rs 631.90 crore with gross sales of Rs 598.40 crore.

 

The US markets continued their record breaking spree and all three of the major averages ended the session at record closing highs in continuation of the upward momentum seen on Wall Street over the past several sessions. Though, there was some cautiousness ahead of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy announcement on Wednesday. The Asian markets have made a mixed start and some of the indices are mildly in red, as investors girded for another round of geopolitical tensions after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to annihilate North Korea. The Indian markets after a lackluster trade ended marginally in red in the last session, as caution crept in ahead of a two-day policy meeting of the US Federal Reserve. Today, the start is likely to be in green though cautiousness will persist amid geopolitical tensions and ahead of U.S. monetary policy decision. There will be concern in the market with SBI Research stating that economy has been on a downslide since September 2016 and the slowdown is real and not technical, calling for more public spending to arrest the slide. The report advocated upping of spends by the government as a solution to the problem at hand. Meanwhile, exporters fearing that a staggering Rs 65,000 crore could get stuck in GST refunds have asked the government to fast-track the refund process and avoid further deterioration in their liquidity situation. The 22nd meeting of the GST Council, chaired by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, will be held on October 6 to deliberate on GSTN glitches and ironing out issues faced by exporters. There will be buzz in the telecom stocks, as  telecom regulator, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), more than halved the interconnect usage charge (IUC) from October 1 and said the fee will be scrapped from 2020, in a move that it said would benefit consumers. IUC has been reduced to 6 paise a minute from 14 paise a minute and to zero starting January 1, 2020. There will be buzz from the primary market too, as the SBI Life Insurance (SBI Life) Rs 8,400 crore initial public offering (IPO) set to hit the market today.

 

 

Support and Resistance: NSE (Nifty) and BSE (Sensex)

 

Index

Previous close

Support

Resistance

NSE Nifty

10147.55

10125.35

10174.35

BSE Sensex

32402.37

32332.63

32498.11

 

Nifty Top volumes

 

Stock

Volume

(in Lacs)

Previous close (Rs)

Support  (Rs)

Resistance (Rs)

ITC

338.82

267.85

264.63

270.53

Tata Motors

282.08

423.65

415.87

429.57

SBI

143.31

267.80

265.90

270.25

GAIL

89.28

420.85

412.43

426.08

ICICI Bank

75.59

294.65

291.00

296.90

 

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