Small and midcap stocks rally up to 44% in one week amid existing market weakness

Shares of Prudent Corporate Advisory Services rallied 40% to close the week at Rs 3,577.65 on the BSE. The stock had gained 14.75% in the last trading session alone.

Meanwhile, the shares of other smallcap stocks like AMI Organics, Syrma SGS Technology, 63 Moons Technologies and The Anup Engineering rose between 30-40% on a weekly basis.

Coffee Day Enterprises, Force Motors, Poonawalla Fincorp, Mercury Ev-Tech and Poly Medicure were the companies whose shares witnessed gains between 25 to 30%.

The BSE smallcap index too gained 6.3% week-on-week (WoW).

Apart from this, midcap stocks also surged by 21.34% with Gillette India shares rising the highest, followed by the shares of Indian Bank, which increased by 17.2% in the same time period.Shares of Central Bank Of India, Bank Of India, JSW Infrastructure, Bank Of Maharashtra, Punjab & Sind Bank, Rail Vikas Nigam (RVNL), Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL), Emami, Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) were among other gainers in the midcap sector, that witnessed weekly gains up to 16%.Indian equity markets are currently facing pressures with Nifty50 having corrected by 8% from its peak in September.

The month of October also saw a historic highest sell-off from foreign portfolio investors (FPIs), who offloaded stakes worth Rs 1,13,858 crore.

On the global front, the markets will now also be responding to the US presidential elections, after which fundamentals like US GDP growth, inflation and rate cut by the Fed will influence the market moves.

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