Key Points
TCS drives IT sector performance with strong quarterly results
Sensex and Nifty trade marginally lower at market open
Foreign institutional investors continue selling equities
Domestic investors show buying interest in market
The IT sector was trading with a gain of more than 2 per cent.
At around 9.34 am, Sensex was trading at 77,442.68 after dropping 177.53 points or 0.23 per cent, while Nifty was trading at 23,458 after declining 68.50 points or 0.29 per cent.
On the National Stock Exchange (NSE), 656 stocks were trading in green, while 1,477 stocks were in red.
Nifty Bank was down 67.95 points or 0.14 per cent at 49,435.55. Nifty Midcap 100 index was trading at 55,472.90 after dropping 273 points or 0.49 per cent. Nifty Smallcap 100 index was at 18,016.85 after declining 101.50 points or 0.56 per cent.
According to market experts, since the results season has started, the market will witness lots of stock-specific action in response to the results.
“Results of TCS indicate that the IT sector will continue to remain resilient,” they said.
Meanwhile, in the Sensex pack, TCS, Tech Mahindra, Infosys, HCL Tech, Tata Motors, Nestle India and Bajaj Finance were the top gainers. Whereas, Indusind Bank, Zomato, NTPC, SBI, Power Grid, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Tata Steel, Axis Bank, Titan and Asian Paints were the top losers.
The Dow Jones climbed 0.25 per cent to close at 42,635.20. The S&P 500 gained 0.16 per cent to 5,918.30 and the Nasdaq declined 0.06 per cent to close at 19,478.88 in the last trading session on Wednesday.
In the Asian markets, Jakarta and Seoul were trading in green. Hong Kong, China, Bangkok and Japan were trading in red.
"In the context of the looming uncertainty regarding US President-elect Donald Trump ’s likely actions, the market is unlikely to rally in the near-term," said experts.
"There appears to be no respite to the sustained foreign institutional investors (FII) selling which touched Rs 7,170 crore on Thursday. This will continue to put pressure on the market," they noted.
Domestic institutional investors (DIIs) bought equities worth Rs 7,639.63 crore on January 9.
