Indian equity benchmark -- Nifty -- ended Friday’s trading session on a higher note, led by buying in IT and Auto stocks. Index made a strong start, as sentiments were upbeat with S&P Global Ratings Senior Economist (Asia Pacific) Vishrut Rana’s statement that Indian economy is expected to clock an average growth rate of 6.7 per cent till 2026-27 fiscal driven by domestic consumption. Traders also took support with Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) bi-annual Financial Stability Report stating that the Indian banking system's asset quality strengthened to a decadal best, with the gross non-performing assets (GNPAs) ratio falling to 3.9 per cent as of March 2023. It said GNPAs of the scheduled commercial banks are expected to improve further to 3.6 per cent by March 2024, as per the baseline scenario.
In afternoon session, index continued its northward journey, as investors got support after Fitch Ratings said that India's resilient growth outlook will offset a slowdown in overseas markets for the country's corporates and easing input cost pressure will help widen their profit margins. Earlier this month, Fitch had raised India's economic growth forecast to 6.3 per cent for the current fiscal year 2023-24 from the 6 per cent it had predicted previously. Besides, Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI) co-founder Ajay Srivastava has said that six years after the rollout of the biggest indirect tax reform in India, Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenue of Rs 1.5 lakh crore every month has become a new normal and tax officers are focusing on dealing with fraudsters who are adopting newer modus operandi to game the system, causing loss to the exchequer. Finally, index settled at fresh record closing high, as investors went for fundamentally strong stocks.
Most of the sectorial indices ended in green except Metal. The top gainers from the F&O segment were HDFC Asset Management Company, Biocon and Indiabulls Housing Finance. On the other hand, the top losers were Multi Commodity Exchange of India, Dalmia Bharat and Torrent Pharmaceuticals. In the index option segment, maximum OI continues to be seen in the 19400 - 19600 calls and 18450 - 18600 puts indicating this is the trading range expectation.
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