ICICI Bank leads rise in Indian shares after five-session drop
Updates at 10:45 a.m. IST
By Bharath Rajeswaran
Oct 28 (Reuters) -Indian shares rose on Monday, after five consecutive sessions of losses, as ICICI Bank's better-than-expected quarterly profit led the heavyweight financials sector higher.
The NSE Nifty 50 .NSEI rose 1.01% to 24,424.7 pointsas of 10:45 a.m. IST, while the BSESensex .BSESN inched 1.13% higher to 80,303.46.
The Nifty is down about 7.5% from the recordhigh hiton Sept. 27, dragged down bysustained foreign selling over the last 20 sessions and the largelylacklustre earnings season so far. The benchmark also logged losses in the previous five sessions.
"While a bounce in the markets is overdue after the drop in the last four weeks, the outlook will turn definitively positive only after a reversal of selling pressure from foreign investors," said Deepak Jasani, Head of Retail Research at HDFC Securities.
The losing runcould come to an end with ICICIBank ICBK.NS, the third-heaviest Nifty 50 stock, rising 3.6%and leading gainsin banks .NSEBANK and financials .NIFTYFIN, which are up about 1.3%each.
Better asset quality and highest current account-savings account growth among peers have been encouraging signs from the private lender's results, three analysts said.
Bank of Baroda BOB.NS,India's second-largest state-owned lender by market capitalisation, gained 5.6%, taking publicsector banks .NIFTYPSU 3% higher.
Strong recoveries, steady loan growth and improvement in asset quality are helping the rally in Bank of Baroda, two analysts said.
The broader, more domestically focused small- .NIFSMCP100 and mid-caps .NIFMDCP100 rose about 0.75%each.
Among individual stocks, non-bank lender Shriram Finance SHMF.NS rose 7% after reporting a rise in profit and an improvementin asset quality in the September quarter.
Bandhan Bank BANH.NS climbed 8.5% on beating profit estimates.
Interglobe AviationINGL.NS, which operates IndiGo, shed 6.7% after posting a quarterly loss compared to a profit a year ago.
($1 = 84.0780 Indian rupees)
Reporting by Bharath Rajeswaran in Bengaluru; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips, Janane Venkatraman and Sumana Nandy
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