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Buy Biocon, Wockhardt in pharma space: Sandeep Wagle, APTART Technical Advisory Services

Sandeep Wagle, Founder & MD, APTART Technical Advisory Services, (Technical Check) in a chat with ET Now talks about pharma space. 

If you could just tell us your thoughts on the pharma space, any outperformers that you come away with from there? 

I would take a very stock specific view as far as pharma is concerned. I am liking Biocon. I am liking Wockhardt. Wockhardt obviously at lower levels I was liking, I would wait for a correction to 250 but I am seeing a big move in both of these stocks. I am not seeing that clarity in Dr Reddy’s or a Cipla, so you cannot talk of the pharma space as a whole. I would rather take a stock specific view and these are the two stocks I would talk of. Over the next two or three months, they can give you a 20-30% upside.

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Sensex tracks world market fall; oil & gas hit

MUMBAI: Indian stocks were trading lower on Tuesday, as world markets fell after US government data showed personal incomes declined 0.2 per cent while consumer spending rose 0.4 per cent in July. 

Oil & gas stocks were the worst hit, with the BSE index for the sector down 1.41 per cent. The other losers were realty, metals, banking, capital goods. The only sectors that were in the positive were FMCG and healthcare. 

At 9:46 am, Nifty was at 5388.40, weaker by 27.05 points or 0.50 per cent. The National Stock Exchange benchmark opened the day at 5413.55 versus the previous close of 5415.45. The 50-share index moved between 5413.70 and 5378.65. 

Sensex was down 97.01 points or 0.54 per cent at 17,935.10. The Bombay Stock Exchange sensitive index opened at 18,015.66 against Monday’s close of 18,032.11. The 30-share index saw a high of 18,015.66 versus a low of 17,907.41. 

Sensex losers included Jindal Steel (-2.14%), Reliance Industries (-2.03%), Sterlite Industries (-1.80%), DLF (-1.55%), Tata Consultancy Services (-1.33%), Wipro (-1.04%), State Bank of India (-1%), Larsen & Toubro (-0.94%), Tata Steel (-0.94%), Hindalco (-0.93%), Jaiprakash Associates (-0.93%), Hero Honda (-0.87%). 

Gainers were ITC (0.85%), Bharti Airtel (0.77%), Cipla (0.71%), Tata Motors (0.67%), Mahindra & Mahindra (0.66%), Reliance Infra (0.57%), Hindustan Unilever (0.25%), HDFC (0.16%) and Infosys Technologies (0.10%).

“Today, we expect the Indian markets to open in the red following weak global cues and could drift lower during the day. Among the indices, FMCG, IT and capital goods look weak,” said HDFC Securities in its morning note. 

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