Pre-market report
Indian indices
Today’s opening is likely to be on a positive note on account of gains in the global markets. Investors may not take big bets before the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s monetary policy review tomorrow. Growing inflation continues to haunt the RBI and would force it to squeeze liquidity further. A rate hike of 25 bps is expected and has been widely discounted by the market.
There will be plenty of action in automobile and cement companies' shares as their sales and shipments figures for the month of April will be out today. Also, export and import data for the month of April will be announced. The RBI credit policy and quarterly results are the major factors to determine the market trend.
Daily trend of FII/MF investment in equities
The FIIs have sold Indian stocks worth a net of Rs270 crore on April 29, 2011 as compared to net sell of 475.70 crore on April 28, 2011. The domestic investors have purchased Indian shares worth a net of Rs295.80 crore on April 28, 2011.
Global signals
The European stocks inched higher on Friday (April 29, 2011), rallying for a seven straight session and posting their best monthly performance since December, but volumes were light due to a UK public holiday.
The US stocks rose on Friday on strength from Caterpillar and other industrials, lifting the Dow and Nasdaq to their best monthly performance since December.
Most of the major Asian markets are shut today on account of the Labour day, which include Hang Seng, Shanghai Composite, Straits Times and Taiwan. While Nikkei and Kospi indices were trading higher on Monday (May 02, 2011) encouraged by gains on Wall Street. SGX Nifty was trading 18 points higher.
Commodity cues
The crude oil climbed on Friday to close near $114 a barrel, buoyed by weakness in the US dollar as traders kept watch on developments in the Middle East and North Africa for potential supply disruptions.
5781 is the trend decider for the day