After nine long years, the MACD on monthly chart for Indian Overseas Bank has crossed the zero line
The Finance Minister in Budget 2021-22 announced that the high level of provisioning by public sector banks of their stressed assets calls for measures to clean up the bank books
The government has approved a guarantee of Rs 30,600 crore to be provided for the security receipts issued by the National Asset Reconstruction Company (NARCL) to buy bad loans of lenders.
Earnings improvement over two quarters was without proportionate lending growth
In February, the bottom 33 Nifty companies in terms of P/E rose 17.3%, while top-tier P/E stocks shed 1.3%
SBI, Indian Bank, Bank of Baroda, Canara Bank, Punjab National Bank and Bank of India were rallied between 25 per cent and 50 per cent in past one week.
A decisive close above 2,000 mark on Nifty PSU index may open doors for 2,200 levels going ahead
Among individual stocks, Punjab National Bank jumped 5.2 per cent to Rs 34.6 apiece on the NSE in the intraday trade
At 9:44 am, SBI was trading 1.2 per cent lower at Rs 184 apiece on the NSE, as against a 0.5 per cent rise in the benchmark Nifty50 index.
Stating that asset quality will deteriorate, Moody's said a sharp decline in economic activity and a rise in unemployment will lead to a deterioration of household and corporate finances.
The consolidation, that will merge 10 PSBs into four, comes at a time when the country and financial system is grappling with adverse fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Thus far in the calendar year, 2020 the Nifty PSU Bank index has tanked 27 per cent, as compared to an 8 per cent fall in the benchmark index.
The benchmark indices are holding the positive sentiment
Apart from higher yields, the mood at the financial counters was dampened on the report that the government may not propose fresh capital infusion under Union Budget 2020.
Both the technical parameters - Relative Strength Index (RSI) and Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) for Nifty PSU Bank index are trading with negative crossover and indicate weakness
So far in CY2019, the Nifty PSB index has underperformed the benchmark Nifty50. The former has plunged 24 per cent YTD, as against a 0.6 per cent decline in the latter.
The Nifty PSU Bank chart depicts formation of 'symmetrical triangle', whose levels coincide with MACD breakout of 3,400-3,380. The support comes at 2,950 level
Among stocks, Allahabad Bank - up 20 per cent in a month and Punjab National Bank (PNB) that has surged 16 per cent in a month have provided strength to the index