Eveready Ind., Delta Corp: BSE revises circuit limit for over 600 stocks

 BSE on Thursday relaxed circuit limits for over 600 stocks with nearly three dozen counters, including Delta Corp, Centrum Capital, Eveready Industries and KPIT Technologies, moving to the 20 per cent circuit filter from the earlier 5 per cent.

"Trading Members of the Exchange are hereby informed that as a part of review of the surveillance action, the price band are revised in the various scrips. The revised price band as indicated there under will be effective from August 07, 2020. Scrips in Trade for Trade (T2T) segments will continue to attract a price band of 5 per cent or lower, as applicable," the exchange said in a notification.

Nelco Ltd, Himatsingka Seide, Hind Aluminium Industries, IFCI Ltd, Igarashi Motors India, Indian Terrain Fashions, Indian Toners & Developers, Aditya Birla Money and Asian Granito India are some of the counters where the circuit limit has been revised from the existing 10 per cent to 20 per cent now. CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE LIST

A circuit breaker is a measure to stem the steep fall or a sharp rise in the price of a security / stock or the index as a whole.

The concept was first introduced in 1987, when the market crash of October 19, 1987 sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) tumbling 508 points, or 22.6 per cent in a single day. The incident is popularly known as Black Monday, as this rout in US equities triggered a global sell-off.

In India, stock exchanges implemented index-based market-wide circuit breakers with effect from July 2, 2001. Some modifications were made in September 2013.

The system applies at three stages of the index movement, either way, at 10 per cent, 15 per cent and 20 per cent. These breakers, when triggered, bring about a coordinated trading halt in all equity and equity derivative markets.

In case of illiquid securities or as a price containment measure, the circuit filters, according to BSE, are reduced to 10 per cent or 5 per cent or 2 per cent as the case may be, based on the criteria decided by the Surveillance Department. However, No circuit filters are applicable on Securities on which derivative products are available. That said, BSE imposes 10 per cent dynamic circuit filter on these Securities to avoid punching errors, if any.

The market-wide breakers are triggered by a movement of either the S&P BSE Sensex or the Nifty50, whichever is breached earlier. The exchanges compute the Index circuit breaker limits on a daily basis, based on the previous day’s closing level of the index.