STOCK MARKET AT A GLANCE

MARKET THIS WEEK The market failed to sustain last week's performance as the benchmark index dropped by 2% WoW withvolumes slipping to merely 58.5m shares, down 34.5%. Politics, macro and news-flow on leverage productwere the main factors playing on investors' sentiments. The excitement on early introduction of Margin Trading System has started to fizzle out due to uncertainty on key issues especially additional risk measures