BSE Sensex crosses milestone of 66,000 points led by IT heavyweights [details]

BSE Sensex crossed the milestone of 66,000 points on Thursday morning.

BSE Sensex is up 625 points in a ferocious rally at 66,019 points powered by constructive cues from the US market.

Sensex was up 586 points at 65,980 points in Thursday morning commerce.

IT shares powered the Sensex rally with TCS, Infosys, Tech Mahindra up by greater than 2 per cent.

V.Okay. Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist at Geojit Financial Services stated the continued international rally in inventory markets will get an extra delicate increase from the most recent US client inflation for June which has come at 3 per cent, higher than market expectation of 3.1 per cent. Importantly core inflation has dipped beneath 5 per cent.

This is evident indication that the disinflation course of is on within the US and would possibly persuade the Fed to pause as soon as once more within the July 26 price resolution. This is a crucial constructive international cue, he stated.

In India, although the June CPI inflation has elevated to 4.81 per cent, this was anticipated because the costs of greens and milk had spiked. The constructive quantity is the May IIP at 5.2 per cent, which signifies that the expansion momentum within the financial system is strong.

Q1 outcomes of TCS and HCL Tech, significantly that of HCL Tech, affirm the slowdown within the IT house, he added.

Even although the cues are constructive, excessive valuations are prone to restrain the bulls from charging ferociously.

(With inputs from IANS)