Monday 12 February 2018

Nifty slumped on terrible global cues & worries about health of Indian banks

Market Wrap: 09/02/2018 (17:00)

NSE-NF (Feb):10485 (-87; -0.83%)

(NS: 10455; Q2FY18 EPS: 391; Q2FY18 PE: 26.74; Abv 2-SD of 25; Avg FWD PE: 20; Proj FY-18 EPS: 418; Proj Fair Value: 8360)

NSE-BNF (Jan):25530 (-412; -1.59%)

(BNS: 25921; Q2FY18 EPS: 867; Q2FY18 PE: 29.90; Abv 3-SD of 30; Avg FWD PE: 20; Proj FY-18 EPS: 961; Proj Fair Value: 19220)

For 12/02/2018: Feb-Fut (Key Technical Levels)

Updated: 07:40 (SGX-NF: 10480); -5 points

(Flat on mixed global cues/last hour recovery in US market)

Expected BNF opening: 25530 (almost flat)

Support for NF: 10430/10370-10290/10240

Resistance for NF: 10515/10575-10625/10700

Support for BNF: 25400/25250-25000/24800

Resistance for BNF: 25700/25950-26050/26250

Trading Idea (Positional):

Technically, Nifty Fut-Jan (NF) has to sustain over 10515 area for further rally towards 10575-10625 & 10700-10755 zone in the short term (under bullish case scenario). 

On the flip side, sustaining below 10495, NF may fall towards 10430-10370 & 10290-10240 zone in the short term (under bear case scenario).

Technically, Bank Nifty-Fut (BNF) has to sustain over 25700 area for further rally towards 25950-26050 & 26250-26550 zone in the near term (under bullish case scenario).

On the flip side, sustaining below 25650 area, BNF may fall towards 25400-25250 & 25000-24800 area in the near term (under bear case scenario).

Indian market (Nifty Fut-Feb/India-50) today (9th Feb) closed around 10485, slumped by almost 87 points (-0.83%) on negative global cues; it made an opening minutes low of 10375 and closing session high of 10495 amid concern of higher & attractive global/US bond yields, which may induce fund outflows from Asian EM (emerging markets) like India.

Asia-Pacific market slumped by 1.67% on Friday (9th Feb) in MSCI-Asia Pacific Index (APC) to 170.54 on overnight bloodbath on US market coupled with rising global bond yields and concern of China Yuan devaluation & PBOC tightening. Overall, for the week, MSCI-APC tumbled by almost 6.5% on terrible US cues on rising borrowing costs and renewed China jitters. It seems that narrative of global goldilocks euphoria has suddenly changed into dysphoria.

The sudden surge in long term US bond yields (10/30Y) may push up overall global funding costs, which in turn could cause significant outflow from the APC market, if 10YUSDTSY yields jumps above 3%. USD is also becoming weak day by day, which is negative for export heavy Asian markets. But at the same time strong Asian currencies may be also a reason for the FPIS to stick with their APC holdings.

US cues were terrible on renewed surge in bond yields after another spate of soft auction in 30YUSTSY yesterday coupled with surge in VIX. As a result, US stocks plunged in last hour of trade on concern that higher borrowing costs will drag the economic growth. USD also fell on risk-aversion moves. Overall sentiment may have also affected after Fed’s Dudley seemed unfazed about market turmoil and compared it to “small potatoes”.

Apart from negative global cues, worries about RBI divergence in banking NPA, new accounting norms, RBI insistence to link bank’s base rate with MCLR (marginal cost of funds based lending rate), hawkish hold stance by RBI may have also affected the overall Indian market sentiment on Friday.

But market sentiment was also being supported by the perception that despite quite hawkish on inflation, RBI will not raise rates in the immediate future and coupled with that some fall in oil allayed some concern on fiscal deficit front and subsequently Indian benchmark 10YGSEC bond yield dropped below 7.50% from recent high of 7.66%, which has also helped the market.

After market hours, Indian market regulator SEBI virtually banned SGX-Nifty (Singapore exchange) primarily on concern of huge open interest (OI) build up in the Nifty Future. The move may be seen as anti-globalization and against ease of doing business with India & may not amuse FIIs as overall taxation & regulatory burden with Indian capital market is significant, especially after imposition of LTCGT (long term capital gain tax).

Market may be also worried about health of Indian banks:

Indian market may be also worried about impact of higher bond yields (i.e. lower bond prices & MTM loss) & RBI divergence (i.e. higher provisioning) on bottom-line of the banks, especially PSBS and also some blue chips private banks. Friday’s report card from SBI and few day ago by GDFC bank is indicating that more “deep surgeries” may be required by RBI to unearth the hidden bad loans (NPA/NPL) from the banking system, the ratio of which is now amongst the highest in the world (NPA/total loans).

Nifty was helped mostly by Tata Steel, HCL Tech, VEDL, Cipla, Asian Paints, HUL, Lupin, DRL, Gail & Coal India by almost 16 points altogether.

Nifty was dragged mostly by HDFC Bank, HDFC, Infy, ICICI Bank, IOC, ITC, RIL, L&T, Yes Bank & Axis Bank by around 81 points cumulatively.


Overall, Indian market was helped by metals, reality, power, consumer durables to some extent, while dragged by banks & financials, mixed FMCG & techs, media, pharma, consumption, infra, energies, auto makers, capital goods.






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