Archive for February 6th, 2008
US Economic numbers, particular the labor figures have cheered the market sentiments today as the American stock markets remained in the green territory. NASDAQ is up 0.87%, DJIA is up 0.63%, S&P 500 is up 0.72%
Key advancers in the first few hours of trade include Empire Resorts, Inc., Multi-Fineline Electronix, Inc. , JDS Uniphase Corporation, Intevac, Inc. and Penson Worldwide, Inc. amongst others. Most decliners include IDM Pharma, Inc. , CommVault Systems, Inc., Double-Take Software, Inc., Travelzoo Inc and RadiSys Corporation.
Empire Resorts, Inc.(NYNY) opened the day at $1.51, touched an intra day high of $2.65 and intraday low of $1.47 and is currently trading at $2.12. Empire Resort, Inc. is a holding company for various subsidiaries engaged in the hospitality and gaming industries. Through the Company’s subsidiaries, it owns and operates Monticello Raceway, a harness horseracing facility located in Monticello, New York. 12:07 AM ET
February 6th, 2008
Unlike the Asian markets which took a bad day, the European stock markets are trading mixed. FTSE 100, Swiss Market and the Stockholm General are marginally in the red while the remaining European stock exchanges are marginally in the green.
The FTSE 100 is down 8.5 points, FTSE 250 down 63.7 points while FTSE All is down 7.90. The FTSE 100 opened in the red, recovered well before reversing its course back to the negative territory. Top gainers so far on the FTSE 100 include Xstrata, Reckitt Benckiser Group, Anglo American while BHP Billiton, Johnson Matthey, Vedanta Resources, AstraZeneca and Standard Chartered amongst others.
A leading business portal recently said that Vedanta Resources Plc is planning an initial public offer (IPO) for Sterlite Energy, its Indian unit, in the next few months.
1 U.S. dollar = 0.674854906 Euros
1 U.S. dollar = 0.506945149 British pounds
February 6th, 2008
The Exchange has successfully completed its 1997th Normal Settlement (Rolling T+2 following SEBI directive) since inception i.e., Settlement Number N – 2008025 on February 06, 2008. The settlement statistics is as follows:
Particulars Values
N – 2008025
Total traded quantity (lakhs) 4970.51
Total traded value (Rs. In Crores) 14770.60
Total value of the settlement (Securities) (Rs. In Crores) 3796.67
Total value of the settlement (Funds) (Rs. In Crores) 1176.14
Shortages for the settlement 0.14%
% of Delivery ( No. of shares deliverable / No. of shares traded ) 23.28%
Retail Debt Market have completed its 1271st settlements details of which is as follows:
Settlement No. Traded Value Settlement Value
Securities Funds
D- 2008025 NIL NIL NIL
February 6th, 2008
The media had reports that Patel Engineering Limited has obtained an assignment to build a dam in the US for $ 300 million.
The Exchange, in order to verify the accuracy or otherwise of the information reported in the media and to inform the market place so that the interest of the investors is safeguarded, had written to the officials of the company.
Patel Engineering Limited has vide its letter inter-alia stated, “The company has not yet obtained any assignment to build dams as referred to in the media.”
February 6th, 2008
Value of deals reported on ICDM on 6th February , 08 , through ICDM System is = Rs. 36.39 Crs.
Number of deals reported : 14
Please find herein below data on F&O turnover (one sided) for the trade date 06th Feb 2008.
1.) Sensex Futures = Rs 1101.66 crores.
2.) Sensex Mini Futures = Rs 4.21 crores.
3) Total F&O Turnover = Rs 1106.10 crores.
All the above values represent one sided turnover.
Kalyan S. Bose
Corporate Affairs
Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd
February 6th, 2008
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