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INDIAN EQUITY MARKET OUTLOOK - 21 Aug 2017

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Sensex rebounds, Nifty reclaims 9850 amid volatility; Infosys dips 3%

The market bounced back with moderate gains amid volatility on Monday after Friday's sell-off.

The 30-share BSE Sensex was up 7.61 points at 31,532.29 and the 50-share NSE Nifty rose 12.75 points to 9,850.15. About two shares advanced for every share falling on the BSE.

Hindalco, Vedanta, Tata Steel, ICICI Bank, Tech Mahindra, Eicher Motors, BPCL, UltraTech Cement, Aurobindo Pharma and HCL Technologies gained up to 2 percent while TCS, Bharti Infratel and HDFC Bank were losers.

Infosys lost 3 percent to Rs 896 despite announcement of buyback of up to Rs 13,000 crore.

Reliance Capital gained 2 percent while Jet Airways fell 1 percent."While investors have been willing to forgive downgrades to consensus EPS in India in the past, we highlight that the scale of the downgrades appears to be getting larger," Sakthi Siva of Credit Suisse said.

With 53 companies in India having reported, current year consensus EPS has been downgraded by 5.3 percent since June 30, she added.

Credit Suisse reiterated underweight call on India.While India is the only market in the Expensive 4 to outperform in 2017 so far, the research house reiterated underweight call as implied return on equity rises to 18.5 percent versus current return on equity of 13.1 percent, Siva said.

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