Stock market today: Why Bank stocks are rising ahead of US CPI data release — explained with two reasons

According to stock market experts, banking stocks are rising due to oversold conditions and soft US CPI data buzz. They said that banking stocks have received a heavy beating in the recent few sessions, but after the soft Indian inflation data for January 2024, the market is expecting soft US CPI data as well. Hence, in the wake of soft US inflation, the market believes that the US Fed would be under pressure to go for the interest rate cut.

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Why banking stocks are rising today?

On reasons that are fueling banking shares of the Indian stock market, Saurabh Jain, Vice President — Research at SMC Global Securities said, “This rise in the banking stocks today can be attributed to two major reasons — soft Indian inflation data for January 2024 and soft US CPI data that is expected today. This buzz has fueled speculations about the US Fed rate cut in the near term. Hence, bulls are putting weight behind the banking stocks during Tuesday deals.”

Connecting the soft US CPI data with the Indian stock market, Sandeep Pandey, Founder of Basav Capital said, “In the recently held RBI MPC meeting, one member had voted in favor of interest rate cut but rest members voted in favor of steady repo rate. As expected, if the US CPI data becomes soft, then in that case the US nFed would be under a lot of pressure to cut interest rates in the upcoming US Fed meeting. So, the rate cut by the US Fed is expected to get followed by a good number of central banks across the globe, which includes India’s Reserve Bank of India (RBI).”

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Stocks to buy today

On banking stocks to buy today, Sandeep Pandey of Basav Capital said that one can look at SBI, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, and Canara Bank shares for a medium to long-term time horizon.

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Published: 13 Feb 2024, 10:56 AM IST