MF Weekly Update: The Market Posted Losses During the Week

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Major Equity Indices Performance

Sensex traded at a weekly loss of 0.78%, BSE 200 and BSE 100 down by 0.78% and 0.75% respectively. S&P BSE Midcap and S&P BSE Small cap lost maximum; fell 0.94% and 1.34%. Continuous falling rupee raised fear of foreign fund outflow. A week ago, foreign investors have pulled out Rs. 5,600 crore due to falling currency value and continuously increasing crude oil prices. US President Trump again initiated a new plan to impose tariff on additional $267 billion of Chinese import. Ongoing trade battle had weakened rupee to fresh record low.

On Wednesday, market logged profits due to heavy sell-offs in FMCG, metal and capital goods sector. Moreover, recovered rupee also extended market gains. On the last trading session, market registered profits because of eased Consumer Price Index-based inflation and Wholesale Price Index based inflation to 3.69% and 4.53% in August 2018 as against 4.17% and 5.09% in July 2018 mainly due to falling prices of food articles and vegetables. However, Industrial Production witnessed 6.6% growth in July as against 6.9% growth in the month of June 2018. The growth is mainly the result of solid performance by manufacturing sector (7%), consumer durables (14.4%) and capital goods (3%).

Sectoral Indices Performance

Gaining Sectors

Three sectors have traded in gains; S&P BSE Power gained 0.47% followed by S&P BSE Metal up by 0.32%. However, S&P BSE capital goods was slightly up by 0.07%.

Losing Sectors

Out of the 11, 8 sectoral indices have traded in the loss. Among all, BSE Auto has lost the maximum, going down by 1.85% followed by S&O BSE Energy which was down by 1.42%. According to the Indian Automobile Manufacturers data, in August 2018, the passenger car sales volume witnessed 1% fall to 196,847 units as against August 2017. S&P BSE Bankex fell 1.25%, FMCG fell 0.97%, Oil & gas fell 0.65%, consumer durables fell 0.63%, and IT sector down by 0.22%.

Top Performers & Losers

Conclusion

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