Monday, April 18, 2022

NEW WEEK SEES HORROR IN THE MARKET

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After a long weekend, the indian stock market ended the session lower today after weak global signals. At the close, the sensex was down 1172 points to 57,166 & the nifty was down 302 points, to 17173. Approximately 1454 stocks are up, 1990 stocks are down and 135 stocks are flat. The IT stocks fell over 4%, trailed by infosys, which lost 7%, followed by mphasis, tech mahindra, mindtree and tcs. Bank nifty shed over 1% while auto, metals, fmcg and power names were bought.
Lower than expected results caused the market to worry about headwinds the IT sector is facing such as churn, wage inflation, lower utilization and IT spending cuts by industries due to geopolitical and macroeconomic issues. The magnitude of the fall is high as the sector has traded at high valuations and the risk of an outlook downgrade has increased.
IT INDEX FALLS OVER 4 %
The IT index plunged over 4%, with top IT names falling as much as 7 % lowered Infosys' margin estimates on weaker-than-expected earnings for the March quarter. At 9%, Infosys recorded the market's biggest drop since March 23, 2020. Jefferies India cut its margin estimates by 100 to 170 basis points to account for the miss and expected a 21.9% margin in FY22.
OIL PRICES HIGHER
Oil prices rose on Monday as concerns mounted over tighter global supply, with the deepening crisis in Ukraine raising the prospect of tougher Western sanctions against its biggest exporter Russia. Brent futures were up 1.3%, to $113.20 a barrel by 0030 GMT, and US West Texas Intermediate futures were up 0.9% to $107.93 a barrel. The International Energy Agency had warned that from May about 3 million barrels per day of Russian oil could be trapped due to sanctions or buyers voluntarily avoiding Russian cargoes.

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