Markets slip marginally - Banking stocks shed gains
August 12th, 2008
The Indian stock markets opened a bit week today with selling seen in some counters. Nifty is back to sub-4600 levels and is currently at 4587 down 0.70% while Sensex lost 166-odd points and is currently at 15337 levels.
Amongst the BSE Sectoral indices, the Bankex lost 2.15% followed by over 1% down in sectors like IT, Consumer Durables, Auto, Metal and Realty.
Leading gainers in the Nifty so far include BPCL, Siemens, ITC, HUL, Zee Limited (all up over 1%), Satyam, NTPC, GAIL, CAIRN and Reliance (all marginally in the green). Top losers on the Nifty include Maruti, Punjab National Bank, HDFC, Infosys, Sterlite, ICICI Bank, Tata Power, Tata Motors, Cipla and SBI.
Maruti is once again in sub-700 levels. The script is at Rs. 683.45 with a trade quantity of 562951 shares so far.
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