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# Bullish traders unnerved as Nifty falls with a thud. Bank Nifty underperforms. Massive Profit booking blamed.

The long and short of Nifty’s drubbing indicates Nifty bulls are non-committed and waiting some big positive trigger.

NIFTY (-214, 24870)
Sensex (-694, 81307)
Bank Nifty (-606, 55149)

# Bullish sentiments collapse like a thud as Nifty snaps its 6-day winning streak. The 3-negative catalyst:

1) Fed minutes which point to a rising near-term inflation in the US.

2) Investors take a cautious stance ahead of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's Friday speech at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium.

3) Can Nifty climb the ‘Wall of Worry’ of 50% Trump’s tariff to come into effect this August 27th?

# Technically speaking, Nifty’s immediate support seen at its 100 DMA at 24633 mark and then the biggest interweek/intermonth support still seen at 24336 mark (Last week’s low).

Hurdles at Nifty 25150 and then at 25670 mark.

# Long Story Short: The return of risk?

# Adv-Dec 07—42
# INDIA VIX 11.72 (+3.08%)
# NIFTY PCR (28th AUG) 0.62
# USD/INR Futures (Aug) (+0.32%, 87.54)

# SECTOR GAINERS:
NIFTY MEDIA (+0.95%)
NIFTY PHARMA (+0.39%)
NIFTY HEALTHCARE (+0.11%)

# SECTORS LOSERS
NIFTY PSUBANKS (-1.12%)
NIFTY PVTBANKS (-1.06%)
NIFTY FMCG (-1.00%)

# TODAY’S MARKET RE-CAP:

1) Nifty (-0.85%) gives away most of its this week’s hard-fought gains, as concerns of Trump’s tariff hikes on India emerge. Nifty continues to trade way below its 50 DMA (25013) and well below the psychological 25000 mark.

2) Bank Nifty (-1.09%) too joins the conga-line of falling sectoral indices and most importantly was seen underperforming. Bank Nifty’s new all-time-high continues to be at 57628.40 mark

3) The market breadth (7:42) was in favor of bears.

4) The Nifty Mid-cap (+0.22%) and Nifty Small-cap (-0.29%) indices witnessed an uninspiring session.

5) Amongst sectoral indices ending in red were NIFY METAL (-1.28%), BANK NIFTY (-1.08%), NIFTY FMCG (-1.08%) while sectors ending in green were Nifty MEDIA (+0.82%), NIFTY DEFENCE (+0.35%) and NIFTY PHARMA (+0.32%).

# Bottom-line: Nifty will look for fresh positive catalysts to move, Confirmation of strength only above 25150 mark.

# STOCKS IN SPOTLIGHT:

1) Vodafone Idea (+9%) jumps out of the gate on back of media reports, that the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has received a proposal to steady Vi. In an informal note to the PMO, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has proposed “multiple relief options", including a further two-year pause on paying the statutory dues under moratorium currently. The PMO will take the final decision on whether any relief measures need to be extended.

2) Texmaco Rail & Engineering (+1.4%) gained after the company announced that it has secured a supply order worth Rs 103.16 crore from Leap Grain Rail Logistics.

2) Titagarh Rail Systems (+0.4%) was seen consolidating after the company said that it has secured a letter of intent (LOI) from Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers for ship construction of two vessels.

# BULLS OF THE DAY:
M&M (+0.74%)
MARUTI (+0.63%)
BEL (+0.25%)
BHARTIARTL (+0.16%)
TITAN (+0.07%)

# BEARS OF THE DAY:
GRASIM (-2.55%)
ASIANPAINTS (-2.40%)
ADANIENT (-2.28%)
ULTRACEMCO (-2.06%)
HEROMOTOCO (-2.06%)

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