
Market breadth is in the red. Of the 1604 stocks traded today, 592 were on the uptrend, and 921 went down.
Construction company PSP Projects is under scrutiny by the media over accusations of not paying overdue wages to migrant workers.
Hawkins Cookers is sharply lower today after double digit declines in revenues and net profits.
Godrej Industries, Supreme Industries announce results; share prices for both stocks are up, with share price of Supreme rising sharply on high volumes.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says that the government is set to give more clarity on rescue loans for businesses soon.
Two steps announced by the RBI, the extension of moratorium by an additional three months on term loans, and conversion of interest into term loans is helpful for customers and industries, negative for banks since it increases the payback and recovery cycle. NiftyBank is lower and all bank stocks are down.
Goodyear India's Managing Director has resigned.
RBI's comments on the economy drove markets lower. The RBI governor says that the central bank expects GDP growth in FY21 to be negative.
Markets are lower in trading after opening flat Nifty 50 was trading at 9103.10 (-3.2, -0.0%) , BSE Sensex was trading at 30939.73 (6.8, 0.0%) while the broader Nifty 500 was trading at 7478.35 (7.8, 0.1%).Market breadth is in the green. Of the 1413 stocks traded today, 778 were on the uptick, and 524 were down.
Riding High:
Largecap and midcap gainers today include Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (164.80, 7.05%), Supreme Industries Ltd. (973.00, 6.65%) and Quess Corp Ltd. (192.35, 4.99%).
Downers:
Largecap and midcap losers today include Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd. (128.40, -5.80%), Shriram Transport Finance Company Ltd. (543.00, -5.57%) and Power Finance Corporation Ltd. (74.95, -5.25%).
Crowd Puller Stocks
27 stocks in BSE 500 are trading on high volumes today.
Top high volume gainers on BSE included TVS Srichakra Ltd. (1299.10, 20.00%), Supreme Industries Ltd. (973.00, 6.65%) and Vaibhav Global Ltd. (1063.00, 6.32%).
Top high volume losers on BSE were Hawkins Cookers Ltd. (4218.00, -7.18%), TCI Express Ltd. (541.00, -4.93%) and Bajaj Finserv Ltd. (4330.00, -4.61%).
Uflex Ltd. (182.30, 2.76%) was trading at 11.7 times of weekly average. Phillips Carbon Black Ltd. (74.55, 3.40%) and BASF India Ltd. (1046.00, 3.25%) were trading with volumes 9.0 and 7.0 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.
BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages
6 stocks made 52 week highs, while 20 stocks hit their 52 week lows.
Stocks touching their year highs included - Aurobindo Pharma Ltd. (727.95, 0.50%), Cipla Ltd. (637.00, 3.31%) and Coromandel International Ltd. (644.10, 4.73%).
Stocks making new 52 weeks lows included - Bajaj Finance Ltd. (1899.70, -4.55%) and Bajaj Finserv Ltd. (4330.00, -4.61%).
8 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including NIIT Technologies Ltd. (1497.40, 3.82%) and BASF India Ltd. (1046.00, 3.25%). 5 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Advanced Enzyme Technologies Ltd. (152.95, -2.86%) and Pidilite Industries Ltd. (1394.00, -1.79%).

