Pre Market Report, October 28, 2020 | Stocks and Commodities

 October 28, 2020

Time: 8 am

1. US markets closed mixed.
2. Due to surge in Corona virus, work from home companies are doing better.
3. That is why Nasdaq was higher while Dow was down for 3 straight days.
4. Even now, US futures are lower.
5. Clearly weakness persists in US markets and that is likely to continue until election.
6. Asian markets are also mixed.
7. SGX Nifty is down, but we have hugely out performed yesterday.
8. October series is nearing its end.
9. In first 9 trading sessions, Nifty shot up 1150 points.
10. After that, for the last three weeks, it is just consolidation.
11. But that consolidation happened with huge volatility.
12. I thought this week, markets will breakout.
13. But that has not happened, so we can expect big move only after US elections.
14. DrReddy, Hero Moto, Axis Bank, L&T, Titan are set to declare results.
15. Yesterday Harley Davidson was up by more than 25% in US due to its tie up with Hero Moto.
16. Bharti Airtel, Tata Motors came with good results.
17. So far, corporate results have been very good.
18. Microsoft came with good results after markets closed in US and that is also good.
19. But they have given cautious guidance.
20. So far, weakness is limited to Europe and US.
21. Asian markets are more or less resilient.
22. FIIs have bought for Rs 3500 crores yesterday.
23. With this FIIs have pumped in Rs 17000 crores in October alone.
24. However DIIs have sold for equivalent amount in October.
25. Reliance saw some short covering but even that was sold into.
26. Kotak bank shot up 12% due MSCI rebalancing.
27. That helped Bank Nifty to hugely out perform.
28. Markets have been volatile and that volatility is likely to continue.
29. Usually Wednesday trades are highly volatile.
30. Nifty future trading at 15 points discount.
31. Nifty future may trade between 11780 and 11920.