Sensex, Nifty start on a cautious note ahead of RBI policy outcome

The 30-share index was trading 31.03 points, or 0.08%, lower at 40,052.51, and the broader Nifty slipped 18.20 points, or 0.15%, to 12,003.45.

June 06, 2019 10:18 am | Updated 10:19 am IST - Mumbai

Top losers in the Sensex pack include Yes Bank, SBI, IndusInd Bank, Bharti Airtel, Vedanta, ICICI Bank, RIL, M&M and HDFC, shedding up to 2.91%.

Top losers in the Sensex pack include Yes Bank, SBI, IndusInd Bank, Bharti Airtel, Vedanta, ICICI Bank, RIL, M&M and HDFC, shedding up to 2.91%.

Domestic equity benchmarks BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty opened on a cautious note on Thursday as investors await RBI’s monetary policy decision. The 30-share index was trading 31.03 points, or 0.08%, lower at 40,052.51, and the broader Nifty slipped 18.20 points, or 0.15%, to 12,003.45.

Top losers in the Sensex pack include Yes Bank, SBI, IndusInd Bank, Bharti Airtel, Vedanta, ICICI Bank, RIL, M&M and HDFC, shedding up to 2.91%. While, PowerGrid, Bajaj Auto, HUL, Coal India, Asian Paints, HDFC Bank and HCL Tech were trading in the green. Bourses were closed Wednesday on account of Eid-ul-Fitr.

In the previous session on Tuesday, the BSE gauge settled 184.08 points, or 0.46%, lower at 40,083.54. The broader NSE benchmark fell 66.90 points, or 0.55%, to settle at 12,021.65.

According to traders, investors were cautious ahead of the Reserve Bank’s policy outcome.

The Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is slated to announce its bi-monthly policy later in the day. The central bank had cut the short-term lending rate (repo rate) by 25 basis points each in its last two policy reviews.

Foreign fund outflow too weighed on market mood here, traders said.

Foreign institutional investors sold equity worth ₹416.08 crore on Tuesday, and domestic institutional investors offloaded shares to the tune of ₹355.42 crore, provisional data available with stock exchanges showed.

Elsewhere in Asia, bourses in China, Japan and Korea were trading on a mixed note in their respective early sessions.

Bourses on Wall Street too ended in the green on Wednesday.

On the currency front, the rupee depreciated 13 paise to 69.39 against the US dollar.

Brent crude futures, the global oil benchmark, were trading 0.23% higher at 60.77 per barrel.

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