Stock market today
:
BSE Sensex
and Nifty50, the Indian equity benchmark indices, surged in trade on Friday led by IT sector stocks. While BSE Sensex crossed the 80,500 mark,
Nifty50
was above 24,500. At 11:46 AM, BSE Sensex was trading at 80,526.19, up 629 points or 0.79%. Nifty50 was at 24,503.35, up 187 points or 0.77%.
The top BSE Sensex gainers at this hour were TCS, Tech Mahindra, HCLTech, Infosys, Axis Bank, and Bajaj Finance.
The top losers were Titan, Tata Steel, ITC, Sun Pharmaceutical, and Asian Paints.
Siddhartha Khemka, Head of Retail Research at Motilal Oswal, is of the view, “Overall strength is seen in the market as every dip is being bought, supported by strong domestic flows aided by FIIs buying in the last few days.”
Nagaraj Shetti of HDFC Securities believes that the underlying trend of Nifty remains choppy with a positive bias, and a sustainable move above 24,500 levels could open up the next upside targets of 24,900 levels in the near term. The immediate support for Nifty is at 24,150.
Global markets
showed mixed trends, with S&P 500 futures remaining little changed, Hang Seng futures rising 0.7%, Japan’s Topix falling 0.8%, Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 rising 0.7%, and Euro Stoxx 50 futures rising 0.4%. In the forex market, the euro, Japanese yen, and offshore yuan were little changed against the US dollar.
Oil prices increased early in Asian trading on Friday, with Brent crude futures climbing 37 cents to $85.77 per barrel and U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures rising 50 cents to $83.12 per barrel. The rise in oil prices was attributed to strong summer demand and reduced inflationary pressures in the United States.
Ten stocks are currently in the F&O ban period, including India Cements, IEX, ABFRL, Bandhan Bank, PEL, GNFC, Chambal Fertilisers, Indus Tower, Balrampur Chini Mills, and RBL Bank.
Foreign portfolio investors turned net sellers, offloading shares worth Rs 1,137 crore, while domestic institutional investors bought shares worth Rs 1,676 crore.
