Nifty ends below 5800 on settlement day; RIL, TCS, SBI dip
28 Apr 2011
Equity benchmarks witnessed selling pressure in the late trade on Thursday - a settlement day for the month of April. Technology, capital goods, power, steel, auto and Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group companies' shares took beating today, which dragged the Sensex down by 157 points.
The 50-share NSE Nifty closed below the 5800 mark, which was quite below experts' expectations. Hemant Thukral of SBI Capital Securities was expecting Nifty to expire around 5870-5900.
VK Sharma of HDFC Securities too said the index was going to close sub-5850.
He believes people in the market do expect some kind of weakness. The Nifty May futures closed at 25 points premium.
"We could see weakness coming in the next one week. If I have long positions, I would not carry long positions where I am losing money but will roll over only 50% of those where I am making money because I expect weakness to set in the next settlement in the first week. We will return on the May 9 to have a relook at the markets and build fresh ones," Sharma said.
The 30-share BSE Sensex fell 157 points, to close at 19,292.
