Markets may see continued selling by Foreign Investors today

27 Jul 2022 , 08:56 AM

Indian markets are likely to remain the Red territory today. Foreign Portfolio Investors are likely to remain net sellers today. This is because of some anxiety coming out from Federal Reserve’s decision on interest rate hike that will come later in the evening today. Stocks of companies such as Maruti Suzuki will see movement. Their June quarter results will come today.

US markets saw pullback yesterday ahead of big earnings and Federal Reserve meet today.  Dow Jones lost 220 points. Nasdaq closed lower for 3rd straight day, losing over 216 points. Bond yields closed near 2.75%, the lowest in over 2 months. Oil prices saw mild uptick.

Asian markets  have opened muted. With the Federal Reserve meet tonight, all investors will await the direction of its action & talk to chart the course going ahead. The Japanese ‘Nikkei’ is trading down 50 points with most other Asian indices trading flat to slightly negative even though US futures were higher after good results from Amazon, Texas Instruments and Microsoft.

The Nifty saw a day of losses for the 2nd day running as profit booking was seen across the board, led mainly by IT & banking stocks. This happened ahead of the monthly expiry  of derivative contracts on Thursday and the Federal Reserve meet this evening. Nifty lost over 145 points. Bank Nifty was down 317 points. Mid caps also saw losing trend. Nifty Small cap index lost over 1.45%.

Technical View: Nifty likely to find support at around 16200 while 16850 is likely to act as resistance on the upside. Bank Nifty likely to find support at around 36000 while 37000 is likely to act as resistance.

TRADING call (1-2 days): BUY Mphasis August futures at 2180-2190. Stop loss: 2139. Target :2230

Derivative call- time period(1 month) : BUY Bharat Electronics August future at 266.5-267.5. Stop loss: 261.55. Target: 272.5