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Indian stock markets touch new heights for the 2nd day

The Sensex of BSE touched a record high of 62,877.73 points ater opening at 62,362.08 points and touched a low of 62,362.08 points during the day

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For the second day in succession, the Indian stock markets flared up with the Sensex of BSE and Nity of NSE touching record highs on Tuesday.

The Sensex of BSE on Tuesday touched a record high of 62,877.73 points ater opening at 62,362.08 points and touched a low of 62,362.08 points during the day.

The Sensex closed at 62,681.84 points, up by 177.04 points.

On monday, the sen sex had closed at 62,504.80 points at er hit in gan all time high of 62,701.40 points.

At the NSE, the Nity opened 18,552.45 points ater previously closing at 18,562.75 points.

Then the Nity rallied up to 18,659.75 points, touched a low of 18,552.15 points and closed at 18,618.05 points.

Naveen Kulkarni, Chief Investment Officer, Axis Securities said, “Indian markets closed in positive, even ater witnessing some pullback in the second half of trade, ater reaching record highs. Sectors that did well include FMCG, where the market is now pricing in lower pressure on gross margins as packaging and agri prices are expected to cool off from highs of Q2FY23. Metals also did well ater Chinese regulators eased financing for property developers, a move expected to boost demand for metals .”“we expect Nity50 to remain range bound in the near term but expect the broad markets to outperform as we believe that small and midcaps can catch up some part of their recent underperfo­rmance to large caps. Investment­s in the current environmen­t should be stock specific, where investors should focus on good quality stocks with strong business models available at reasonable valuations ,” kulk ar ni added.

Siddhartha Khemka, Head of Retail Research, Motil al osw al financial services ltd, said ,“domestic equities have showed strong character despite global headwinds as they gained for sixth consecutiv­e day andmakenew­highs.whilegloba­lcuesweren­egative at the start of the day due to agitations in China for its regressive COVID policies. Nity opened lower but soon gained momentum to make fresh highs. The index finally closed with gains of 55 points at 18,618 levels.actionwass­eeninfmcg,metalsandp­harma Sector. Buying was seen in FMCG stocks on back of revival in rural demand and decline in oil prices.

“We expect market momentum to continue although the pace of gains may slow down given the run-up in last few days. Oil& Gas, auto, IT, & FMCG stocks have been supporting the Index with strongmove­mentinheav­yweightsli­kereliance.auto stocks would be in focus ahead of the monthly sales data for Nov would be released. Expect banking, consumer and cement stocks to remain strong over the next few days,” Khemka added.

“Indian markets opened on positive note following positive overall Asian markets on back of news China encouragin­g vaccinatio­ns for elder which is seen crucial to reopening the economy post sporadic lockdowns,” said Narendra Solanki, Head Fundamenta­l Research- Investment Services, Anand Rathi Shares & Stock Brokers.

Solanki said the sentiments remained optimistic as the data showed that foreign porfolio investors have infused funds worth Rs 32,344 crore in Indian stock markets so far in the month of November and became net buyers again.

“During the closing session almost all the major sectoral indices were trading in green except auto and realty which were trading marginally in red,” Solanki said.

Deepak Jasani, Head of Retail Research, HDFC Securities, said the metal stocks seem to be coming back in favour as nationwide unrest in China over Covid curbs eased.

Broadmarke­tshoweveru­nderperfor­medasbuyin­g action was limited to the top 100 odd scrips, Jasani said. Continued foreign porfolio investors buying in India has boosted the mainline indices which may continue to do well for the next two months with some intermiten­t correction­s.

According to Choice Broking, the Nity crossed 18,650 for the first time, and maintained an uptrend for the sixth consecutiv­e session, as well as higher highs for the fith session in a row.

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School children walk past a wall mural in Mumbai, India, on Tuesday.
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