For Quick Alerts
ALLOW NOTIFICATIONS  
For Daily Alerts

Diesel hike, Big Ben fuel rally on bourses

|

Diesel hike, Big Ben fuel rally on bourses
The impending diesel hike which finally came through and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's announcement of a quantitative easing in the US, fuelled a rally across global markets. The Sensex jumped more than 332 points at 18,353 points at 9.20 am and the Nifty gained 102 points.

Banking stocks surged following the announcement of a quantitative easing programme in the US. ICICI Bank led the rally with a surge in its stock price by more than 4%. Other banking stocks that gained were SBI (3.63%), Axis Bank (3.5%) and Bank of Baroda (3.165).

 

Metal stocks were in the limelight with Tata Steel gaining 5%, Hindalco gaining 5.5%, Jindal Steel rising 5% and Sterlite jumping 2.55%.

 

Shares of Reliance Industries gained 1.61% in early trade. Interestingly, there was not a single loser amongst the Nifty stocks.

Today's rally was largely driven by a diesel price hike, which according to marketmen would go a long way in fiscal consolidation and in signalling the government's intent to take the reform process forward.

A third round of quantitative easing programme in the US announced by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was one of the prime drivers of the market today, as the new measures would unleash a wave of liquidity across global markets.

Markets are expected to take cues from the inflation data which is slated later today. A reading of higher than 7% in all probability would prevent the Reserve Bank of India in cutting rates when it meets for the Monetary Policy Review on September 16, 2012.

Meanwhile, Asian markets all rallied gaining between 1-2%.

GoodReturns.in

Read more about: sensex nifty
Company Search
Get Instant News Updates
Enable
x
Notification Settings X
Time Settings
Done
Clear Notification X
Do you want to clear all the notifications from your inbox?
Settings X