Stock Market Rises More Than 1 Percent - Updates By Money Maker Research

Indian stock market rose over 1 percent on Friday in the noon session, heading for their third straight session of gains, in line with Asian markets as lackluster U.S. retail sales data reduced already low chances of an interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve next week. Sensex has hiked 295 points yet and Nifty has rise 79 points to 8822. Currently Rupee is trading higher by 13 paise at 66.89 against US Dollar. Till yet 1571 shares have advanced, 996 shares declined and 184 shares remained unchanged. Midcap sectors are showing average movements. BSE Small Cap has hiked 53 points to 12799, while BSE Midcap drifted up 30 points to 13122.

Commodity Market is slipping down in today's session. In Bullion Market, MCX Gold dropped 52 points to 30858 and Silver dropped 141 points to 45497. Crude Oil fell 40 points down ahead weak global cues.

Asian Market Update: Nikkei has hiked 114 points to 16519, Hang Seng hiked 144 points to 23335 and China's index Shanghai Composite dropped 20 points to 3002.

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.