The Nifty ended the week -2.14% (-3.54% in USD terms.)
Equities
Commodities
Energy |
Brent Crude Oil |
-2.84% |
Ethanol |
-2.66% |
Heating Oil |
-1.56% |
Natural Gas |
+0.37% |
RBOB Gasoline |
-4.16% |
WTI Crude Oil |
-3.86% |
Metals |
Copper |
-0.62% |
Gold 100oz |
-0.13% |
Palladium |
-1.51% |
Platinum |
-0.85% |
Silver 5000oz |
-1.46% |
Agricultural |
Cattle |
-0.95% |
Cocoa |
+1.51% |
Coffee (Arabica) |
+6.81% |
Coffee (Robusta) |
+3.20% |
Corn |
-3.23% |
Cotton |
-3.52% |
Feeder Cattle |
+1.02% |
Lean Hogs |
-4.68% |
Lumber |
-0.40% |
Orange Juice |
-5.47% |
Soybean Meal |
-2.24% |
Soybeans |
+0.21% |
Sugar #11 |
-4.90% |
Wheat |
-0.65% |
White Sugar |
-2.59% |
Index Returns
Sector Performance
Advance Decline
Market Cap Decile Performance
Decile |
Mkt. Cap. |
Advance/Decline |
1 (micro-cap) |
-9.60% |
68/68 |
2 |
-3.10% |
65/70 |
3 |
-1.94% |
64/72 |
4 |
-2.75% |
67/68 |
5 |
-1.07% |
65/71 |
6 |
-0.65% |
64/71 |
7 |
-1.76% |
58/78 |
8 |
-2.03% |
65/70 |
9 |
-1.99% |
66/70 |
10 (mega-cap) |
-1.93% |
69/67 |
A winner for every loser…
Top winners and losers
Apparently people expected a lot from L&T’s first quarter but were left wondering about “acche dins”
ETFs
No love for infrastructure, banks barely held on…
Investment Theme Performance
It was a brutal week for any strategy that wasn’t short…
Yield Curve
Total return bond indices
Sub Index |
Change in YTM |
Total Return(%) |
GSEC TB |
-0.04 |
+0.17% |
GSEC SUB 1-3 |
+0.13 |
+0.04% |
GSEC SUB 3-8 |
+0.19 |
-0.53% |
GSEC SUB 8 |
+0.23 |
-1.46% |
Long bonds fell…
August Nifty OI
August BankNifty OI
Thought for the weekend
Here’s the tl;dr, but read the entire article at your leisure this weekend.
Panopticon: a way for a (prison) guard to see others without being seen himself. Follows a principle that power should be visible and unverifiable.
Visible: the inmate will constantly have before his eyes the tall outline of the central tower from which he is spied upon.
Unverifiable: the inmate must never know whether he is being looked at at any one moment; but he must be sure that he may always be so.
Eventually guards discovered that, after a period of consistent monitoring and prompt punishment against perpetrators, inmates began to regulate their own behaviour.
Applicable to how regulators, like SEBI and the RBI, can get market participants to regulate their own behavior.
Source: Michel Foucault on the Panopticon Effect