Business News Highlights: Stock Market Closes Almost Flat, Sensex Settles Near 73,900, Nifty Marginally Lower
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The stock markets traded in an overall positive sentiment last week. Both the key equity benchmark indices, Sensex and Nifty, gained 0.20 per cent and 0.24 per cent respectively in the previous week.
However, the indices reversed the trend and broke the rally in the last trading session on Friday. The S&P BSE Sensex settled more than 700 points lower at 73,878, while the NSE Nifty50 closed the session below the 22,500 mark at 22,476, declining 173 points. During the day, the indices hit fresh intraday lows.
This week will begin with the release of macroeconomic data such as the HSBC Services and Composite PMI for April. Further, the ongoing fourth-quarter earnings season will also see some major firms reveal their results, such as JSW Steel, BPCL, State Bank of India, Voltas, Canara Bank, BSE Limited, L&T, HT Media, and Asian Paints, among others.
Sharing the outlook for the week, Siddhartha Khemka, Head - Retail Research, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd, noted, “On Monday, markets will react to the US employment data and Q4 results of companies like Dmart and Kotak Bank.”
Vinod Nair, Head of Research, Geojit Financial Services, added, “The market will also remain vigilant about the BoE (Bank of England) policy and GDP data from the euro zone. We expect a degree of consolidation in the market due to expensive valuations and any election-led jitters.”
Official data from the depositories revealed that foreign portfolio investors adopted a cautious stance towards Indian equities and infused Rs 1,156 crore in the market in the first two trading sessions of May. The investors withdrew Rs 1,726 crore from the Indian debt market in the period under review.
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