Mkts open in green, Sensex up by 43 pts

New Delhi: The markets have opened in green but flat very much in line with its Asian peers. It was quite sluggish opening on Tuesday with low volume and thin market breadth.

At 9:56 am, Sensex was up 43 points at 14127 and Nifty was up 21 points at 4165. Major gainers in the opening trade were ONGC, Reliance, Infosys, SBI, HDFC bank, ICICI Bank and ACC. However, Ranbaxy, Hero Honda, TCS and Satyam were quite weak today.

Asian Markets: Asian stocks were mixed today, Japan's Nikkei declined 0.36 per cent or 64.63 points at 17,769.85, South Korea's Seoul Composite slipped 0.12 per cent or 2.04 points at 1,714.52.

However, Hong Kong's Hang Seng advanced 0.23 per cent or 47.47 points at 20,662.96, Singapore's Straits Times rose 0.36 per cent or 12.80 points at 3,558.26 and Taiwan's Taiwan Weighted was up 0.09 per cent or 7.37 points at 8,346.25.

US Markets: The Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.57 point, or less than 0.01 per cent, to end at 13,424.96, capping a day of trading that saw stocks slip, advance, and then pull back again. Broader stock indicators were narrowly mixed.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 1.45 points, or 0.10 per cent, to 1,509.12, and the Nasdaq composite index fell 1.39 points, or 0.05 per cent, to 2,572.15.

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Market cues:

• FIIs net sell USD 222.1 mn in equity on June 8.
• MFs net buy Rs 226.7 crore (Rs 2.26 billion) in equity on June 8.
• NSE F&O Open Interest up by Rs 824 crore (Rs 8.24 billion) at Rs 62,750 crore (Rs 627.50 billion).

F&O cues:

• Futures Open Interest up Rs 356 crore (Rs 3.56 billion); Options Open Interest up by Rs 468 crore (Rs 4.68 billion).
• Nifty Futures add 6 lakh shares in Open Interest.
• Nifty Fut end at 19-pt discount after a near 30-pt discount for whole day.
• Nifty Open Interest put-call ratio down to 1.28 from 1.31.
• Nifty Calls add 4.9 lakh shares in Open Interest.
• Nifty Puts add two lakh shares in Open Interest.
• Nifty 4200 Call adds 2.5 lakh shares in Open Interest.
• Nifty 4100 Put adds 1.1 lakh shares in Open Interest.

(With moneycontrol.com inputs)