Buy or sell stocks for today: After showing a sustainable upside move in the last five sessions, Indian stock market gave up its winning streak and ended lower on last trade session of 2023. Nifty 50 index remained in negative territory throughout the session and closed with minor loss of 22 points at 21,731 levels.
BSE Sensex finished 0.23 per cent lowe at 72,240 levels whereas Nifty Bank index lost 0.45 per cent and ended at 48,292 levels. However, broader market outperformed with Nifty Mid-cap 100 and Nifty Small-cap 100 up 0.8 per cent and 0.6 per cent respectively.
Vaishali Parekh, Vice President — Technical Research at Prabhudas Lilladher believes that Nifty 50 index is finding resistance at 21,900 levels. However, Prabhudas Lilladher expert maintained that overall stock market sentiment is positive.
She said that Nifty today has strong support placed at 21,550 and breaching its resistance, Nifty 50 may touch 22,200 to 22,300 levels. On stocks to buy today, Vaishali Parekh recommended three intraday stocks for today — EIH, Dabur India and McDowell-N.
On outlook for Nifty 50 today, Vaishali Parekh said, "Nifty took a breather near 21800 zone halting the ongoing rally finding resistance and remained rangebound for the entire session near 21720 zone with bias maintained positive. As mentioned earlier, the index would have levels near 21550 maintained as the near-term support while the next major targets of 22200-22300 levels are anticipated in the coming days with the strong uptrend still maintained intact." "Bank Nifty finding resistance near the 48,500 levels slipped down to some extent with near-term support maintained near 48,000 zone whereas 46,300 levels shall remain maintained as the strong support zone
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