Market watch: Weak HBL, Mari bonds drag marketplace down
KARACHI: External factors took their fee on a batch marketplace on Monday as news over a weekend about a US supervision penalising Habib Bank and Mari Petroleum’s delegate open charity caused a marketplace to open opening down and contributed to skinny financier participation.
The disastrous view combined by this information valid foul as many bonds followed fit and declined significantly, wiping out gains done in Friday’s trade session.
At close, a benchmark KSE 100-share Index available a diminution of 667.53 points or 1.57% during 41,974.22 points.
According to Elixir Securities, Pakistan equities started a new week on a disastrous note with a benchmark index disappearing 1.6% and settling next 42,000 points with skinny turnover.
“The marketplace non-stop opening down in a morning due to a large penalisation of Habib Bank (HBL) announced before a start of a session. The news spooked investors and dented sentiments, ensuing in a batch trade during 5% extent down while scarcely 700,000 shares crossed off a marketplace during an normal cost of Rs180/share ie 18% next Friday’s close.”
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Mari Petroleum (-5%) too started a day extent down due to news over a weekend of a supervision determining to offload a interest around a delegate open offering.
The wider marketplace during a day skidded down and traded lifeless as clear from only 103 million shares exchanging hands on a KSE All-share Index, down 43% from final week’s average.
“(We) design marketplace to sojourn underneath vigour and trade volatile, quite during a stream week, due to default of certain triggers in sight,” a news added.
JS Global researcher Maaz Mulla pronounced a marketplace non-stop on a disastrous note and continued to decrease via a day to eventually tighten during 41,974, down 668 points compared to Friday.
“The day started with news about HBL (-5%) after a US State Department of Financial Services sent a notice to a bank seeking deception of a chastisement of adult to $630 million, most aloft than travel expectations.”
The bank also motionless to tighten a New York operations. This movement had been taken due to poignant relapse of a risk government and correspondence identified in a bank’s New York bend in 2015.
Mari (-5%) too non-stop during a reduce circuit as news of a delegate charity widespread in a market. The negativity in these index heavyweights caused disastrous sentiments in a marketplace and other bonds also followed a decline, Mulla said.
Pakistan Petroleum (-1.87%), Pakistan Oilfields (-0.02%) and Oil and Gas Development Company (-0.22%) from a scrutiny and prolongation section all sealed in a red section on a behind of a decrease in US wanton futures as refinery shutdowns caused by a whirly Harvey dampened direct for American crude.
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Key laggards – HBL, Mari, Millat Tractors (-4.9%) and Cherat Cement (-5%) – dragged down a KSE-100 index by adult to 235 points.
“The bearish spell competence continue as diseased formula of banks, concrete and fertilizer companies have left investors disappointed. We suggest investors to make use of each event to sell on strength in this descending market,” he added.
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Overall, trade volumes fell to 103 million shares compared with Friday’s total of 177 million.
Shares of 377 companies were traded. At a finish of a day, 86 bonds sealed higher, 266 declined while 25 remained unchanged. The value of shares traded during a day was Rs5.7 billion.
Azgard Nine was a volume personality with 12.7 million shares, losing Rs1 to tighten during Rs14.89. It was followed by TRG Pakistan with 11.4 million shares, losing Rs1.9 to tighten during Rs36.17 and Sui Southern Gas Company with 7.8 million shares, losing Rs0.05 to tighten during Rs37.58.
Foreign institutional investors were net sellers of Rs65 million during a trade session, according to information gathered by a National Clearing Company of Pakistan Limited.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1493321/market-watch-weak-hbl-mari-stocks-drag-market/