Pedestrians look up at an electronic ticker board showing a budget news report outside the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in Mumbai. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)
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May 12, 2021
The S&P BSE Sensex lost 1% to 48,690.80 while the NSE Nifty 50 Index declined 1% to 14,696.50. Except for the S&P BSE Auto Index, all other 18 sector-indices compiled by BSE Ltd. declined, led by a gauge of metal companies.
The Indian rupee is poised to decline by the most in almost a month amid lingering concerns over the deadly impact of coronavirus that threatens to weigh on the nation’s economy.
USD/INR up 0.2%, set for the biggest rise since April 19, at 73.4575
The second, deadlier wave of virus infections is likely to cause rupee weakness till Sept., according to Bloomberg Economics’ forecasting model
Latest flareup is expected to drive capital outflows, weaken growth, raise inflation and economic uncertainty
Trade patterns will also add adverse seasonal pressures on currency till Sept.
Expects rupee to drop to 77/USD by Sept.
Rupee came off day’s lows as foreign banks sold with stock inflows expected from MSCI Index rebalancing, says Amit Pabari, managing director at CR Forex
Sovereign bonds are steady ahead of a report that’s likely to show consumer-price inflation eased last month
CPI probably rose 4.10% y/y in April, compared with a 5.52% gain in March, according to a Bloomberg survey
10-year yields little changed at 6.01%; FX and bond markets are shut Thursday for a holiday
NLC India Ltd. rose gained for a fifth straight session with trading volume was 74 times the average for this time of day. The stock was the best performer among its peers.
Trading volume was 30.6 million shares, 74 times the 20-day average of 414,767 shares for this time of day.
The relative strength index on the stock was above 70, indicating it may be overbought.
The Sensex has surged about 90% from its March 2020 low, boosted by foreign inflows of $23.3 billion last year and optimism that stimulus measures will help engineer a strong economic revival.
The market “is completely ignoring the present situation,” said Samir Rachh, who oversees Rs 13,000 crore ($1.8 billion) of assets at Nippon India Mutual Fund in Mumbai. Recent gains have been “driven by a huge amount of liquidity,” he said. [Reads more on it here]