Stock Market Today: Top 10 Insights for the Day Ahead
- Sensex Nifty50 Today: The benchmark Sensex and Nifty indices are expected to open marginally lower, with the GIFT Nifty indicating a negative start with a loss of 16 points.
- BSE Sensex and Nifty50: On November 6, following the previous day gains, the BSE Sensex surged by 595 points to reach 64,959, and the Nifty50 saw a gain of 181 points, closing at 19,412. This resulted in the formation of a bullish candlestick pattern on daily basis crossing the 100 as well as 21 day exponential moving average.
- FIIs and DIIs: On November 6, provisional data from the National Stock Exchange indicates that foreign institutional investors divested shares valued at Rs 549.37 crore, while domestic institutional investors acquired stocks worth Rs 595.7 crore.
Commodity Prices
Oil Prices:
- Brent crude futures increased by 0.5 percent to $85.30 a barrel.
- US West Texas Intermediate crude rose by 0.7 percent to $81.05 a barrel.
- Saudi Arabia confirmed it would maintain an additional voluntary cut of 1 million barrels per day, resulting in approximately 9 million bpd production for December.
Gold Prices:
- Spot gold decreased by 0.4 percent to $1,983.49 per ounce.
- US gold futures fell by 0.4 percent to $1,990.60.
- The dip was attributed to a slight increase in US bond yields as investors awaited a speech by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell later in the week for insight into the interest rate outlook.
Dollar Index:
- The Dollar index slipped by 0.16 percent in futures, reaching 104.90.
- The value of one dollar was approximately Rs 83.22.
Global Markets
U.S. Markets:
- Stock futures showed a slight decline on Monday evening, with Dow Jones Industrial Average futures falling by 61 points (about 0.2%).
- S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures also experienced similar declines of approximately 0.2% each.
- In regular trading on Monday, stocks secured gains, with the Nasdaq Composite achieving its seventh consecutive positive session.
- Both the S&P 500 and the 30-stock Dow extended their winning streaks to the sixth consecutive session.
- This positive performance in November is in contrast to a challenging October when the S&P 500 entered correction territory.
- Investors grew optimistic after the Federal Reserve’s decision to leave interest rates unchanged during their last week’s meeting.
- The Fed’s decision led to a decline in Treasury yields and a corresponding increase in stock prices.
- Wall Street is closely monitoring whether the recent rally can be sustained after all three major indices enjoyed their most successful week in 2023 last Friday.
European Markets:
- European markets closed lower on Monday, with the Stoxx 600 index falling by 0.2 percent.
- Oil and gas stocks were the top gainers, rising by 0.8 percent.
- Regional markets had seen a week-long rally due to strong earnings and perceived central bank dovishness.
- US stocks were slightly higher on Monday, aiming to maintain last week’s strong performance.
- Asia-Pacific markets were buoyed by a soft US jobs report, reducing interest rate hike expectations.
- South Korean stocks surged as the country reinstated a short-selling ban.
Asian Markets:
- South Korean stocks, including the Kospi, fell 2 percent.
- Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 traded 0.22 percent lower ahead of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s expected rate hike to 4.35 percent.
- Japan’s Nikkei 225 dropped 0.5 percent, and the Topix shed 0.39 percent.
- Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index looked set to drop with futures at 17,867.
- China was set to release its trade data for November.