Top stock market action to look out for today
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The The SGX Nifty signals a 23-point uptick at opening for Nifty futures today.
Overseas cues are positive. Major US indices rose between 0.4-0.9% on Monday. European indices remained flat to weak recording a gain of 0.4% to a fall of 0.6 percent overnight.
The commodities market remains weak, which is positive for Indian equities. Oil Futures remain at 6-year lows as Japanese
Meanwhile, the Nifty Index closed at 8,477 points, down 41 points on short sales on Monday. But the index showed a smart recovery from intra-day lows due to heavy buying in index-based PSU banking stocks: Bank of Baroda, State Bank of India and Union Bank.
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The sentiment remains positive in the cash market. Foreign Institutional Investors and large domestic players were net buyers for the second day, pooling in 142 crore rupees and 184 crore rupees respectively.
The derivatives space saw muted action. Traders made net sales of 601 crore rupees for Index Futures; Net sales of 37 crore rupees for Stock Futures; Purchases of `550 crore rupees for Index options and net sales of 3 crore rupees for Stock Options.
Huge delivery based buying was seen in Bank of Baroda, Canara Bank, Bank of India and IDBI while Kaveri Seed saw heavy delivery based selling coupled with a sharp fall in prices.
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