After opening unenthusiastically at 15,066.71, the stock market is trading flat in the morning trades.
On the other hand, Asian markets also opened negatively as the US subprime lender Aegis Mortgage filed for bankruptcy, activating worries of credit situations of higher risk mortgages.
Rajesh Jain of Pranav Securities believes that it’s beneficial to hold Industrial Finance Corporation of India, IFCI at the moment. IFCI is a slow mover, but it has lots of potential to go up.
Jain told, "In the best of situation, if everything goes the right way then IFCI could give you almost a 50% gain from this point. If you look at the portfolio that IFCI has to offer to an investor at this point, there are NPs for which recoveries have started you could almost raise Rs 2,000-2,500 crore out of that. The hidden real estate value put anywhere between Rs 3,000-4,000 crore."
Rahul Agarwal, VP, Institutional Sales, LKP Shares, said that today stock market was performing steadily because of the absence of aggressive selling. Volumes remained on the lower side as less of institutional buying was seen today. There was broad-based buying across all the sectors, though IT sector under-performed markets. He expects volatility with a negative bias to be seen in the Tuesday`s trading session.
Bhupendra Sharma, vice president, Hornic Investments stated that today market traded decisively all through the day, as it ended the day 149 points. It was mainly because of good worldwide cues. No major buying took place today. There was careful buying and the majority of the small cap companies did well today.
BRICS Securities has been ordered by SEBI to pay a penalty of Rs 10 Lakhs.
Nagarjuna Fertilisers and Chemicals touched a 52-week high of Rs 29.25. In afternoon trading, the share is hovering near Rs 29, up Rs 1.85, or 6.84%. 
