On Monday, Indian equity markets witnessed a blood bath, with bears dominating Dalal Street.

Activity in the F&O market for the weekly expiry on March 10 shows 17000 to act as resistance now. 

The rupee has tanked to its lifetime low of 77.11 against the US dollar today as escalating geopolitical risks of the Russia-Ukraine conflict pushed investors to safe-haven assets like gold. 

The mounting tensions between the two European nations kept crude oil prices at an elevated level and heightened worries about domestic inflation and wider trade deficits. Continued foreign fund outflows and a relatively less inflow of domestic investors into equities also weighed on investor sentiment.  

Swati Kulkarni is the Executive Vice President at UTI Asset Management Company (AMC). She is also an Equity Fund Manager at the AMC, a position that she has held since 2004.   

HEG, KSB and Hindalco witnessed positive action in today’s session.   

On Monday, the oil prices soared above $130 a barrel for the first time since July 2008, on the back of risk of a US and European ban on Russia’s oil export which comprises of about 10 per cent of global supply. Following the cues, domestic market along with its global peers plunged and witnessed substantial sell-off from opening hours.

 It was a disappointing day for the Indian market as they initially recovered sharply from their day’s low, only to lose most of the points later.

Ekennis Software Service Limited became the 364th Company to get listed on the BSE SME Platform on March 07, 2022. Ekennis Software Service Limited came out with an initial public offering of 4,00,000 equity shares of Rs.10 each for cash at a price of Rs. 72 per equity share, aggregating to Rs 2.88 crore. The company has successfully completed its public issue on February 24, 2022.

The Indian markets experienced carnage on Monday's early trade due to weakening in global markets as concerns over the Russian invasion of Ukraine fuels and also the crude oil reaching a multi-year high. 

A broad-based sell-off was witnessed across indices on exchanges BSE and NSE along with global markets. A spike in crude oil prices and currency depreciation has caused higher input costs for companies across sectors. Also, rising global inflation has made investors cautious. The foreign investors were seen pulling off money from the Indian market, FII outflow of 7,631.02 crore and domestic investor inflow of Rs 4738.99 crore was seen on Friday.   

Despite a weak market, shares of ONGC Ltd, PNB Housing Finance Ltd and Graphite India have rallied in today’s trading session.

While markets opened with deep cuts, as of noon, BSE Sensex has declined by 2.26 per cent.