Sensex Nifty Slumped, Commodity Market on Flat Note

Sensex and Nifty opened on a flat note on Friday morning. Sensex has lost 196 points at 28848 and Nifty has lost 64 points yet. Commodity market is also showing average movements today. MCX Gold has dropped 6 points to 31197 while Silver dropped 18 points to 46696. In energy sector, Crude oil dropped 21 points to 3143 and Natural gas hiked 1.20 points to 187.30. Midcap sectors are trading down today. BSE Smallcap dropped 49 points to 12873, BSE Midcap dropped 92 points to 13386 and Nifty Midcap dropped 74 points to 15671. BSE Auto sector dropped 267 points to 22919, BSE BANKEX dropped 301 points to 23184 and Bank Nifty lost 243 points to 20173. Currently, Rupee is trading lower by 13 paise at 66.55. Till yet 890 shares have advanced, 1422 shares have declined and 146 shares are unchanged.

Asian Market Updates: Japan's benchmark index Nikkei trading at 16965 with minor hike of 7 points, Hong Kong's benchmark index has a major hike of 336 points at 24255 and China's Shanghai Composite has dropped 2 points to 3093.

Precious Metals Global report by Moneymaker Research

Gold recovered from lows near $1300 per ounce, riding on excellent buying after the keenly eyed US Nonfarm payrolls data witnessed a soft performance. The metal moved up from near two and half month lows and a quick rebound post nonfarm took the commodity near $1330 per ounce. MCX Gold futures also managed to recover from lows near Rs 30500 per 10 grams and edged up towards Rs 31K. Local futures have been witnessing a corrective movement after hitting highs above Rs 32300 per 10 grams in July this year. However, a good monsoon is likely to trigger some buying in retail markets in coming festive season.

The US Nonfarm payrolls rose by 151000 in August, slowing sharply from recent figures and pushing an expected increase in US interest rates toward the end of the year. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.9% though. Average hourly wages rose 0.1% to $25.73. Hourly pay increased 2.4% from August 2015 to August 2016. Total employment gains for July and June, meanwhile, were barely changed. The government said 275,000 new jobs were created in July instead of 255,000.

Gold speculator and large futures traders added sharply to their gold bullish positions last week after trimming them for two weeks, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The non-commercial futures contracts of Comex gold futures, traded by large speculators and hedge funds, totaled a net position of +294609 contracts in the data reported through August 23th. This was a weekly change of 10758 contracts from the previous week’s total of +283851 net contracts that was registered on August 16th. The spec position is still highly bullish and within approximately 20,000 contracts of the year’s high point of +315,963 contracts. The current levels are the highest in nearly two months.

Stock And Commodity Market moving High - Updates By Money Maker Research

Equity benchmarks opened higher in today's trading session. Currently, indices are moving in the positive zone with average gains. Sensex has gained 56 points at 28479 and Nifty hiked 8 points to 8783. Maximum Indian sectors are trading with positive leads including the midcap sectors. BSE Auto sector is leading the region with 176 points hike to 22262, BSE Bankex gained 96 points to 22774 and Bank Nifty live at 19863 with 75 points up. Indian currency Rupee is stable on 66.85 with strength of 10 paise against US Dollar. 

MCX and NCDEX markets are moving higher in the positive direction. In Bullion Market Gold has hiked 9 points to 30781 while Silver stocks jumped 185 points to 44483. Rmseed lift up 36 points to 4704, Soyabean hiked 39 points to 3318 and Cocudakl is up 13 points to 2707.

Asian Market Updates: Asian Market indices are trading marginally lower in the positive zone today. Nikkei dropped 16 points to 16910, Hang Seng gained 91 points to 23254 and Shanghai Composite with minor loss of 7 points dropped to 3056.