Indian equity benchmark -- Nifty -- ended Friday’s trading session near day’s low point dragged by losses in PSU Bank, Metal and Realty stocks. Index made a negative start, as traders were cautious after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its ‘minutes of the recent monetary policy committee (MPC) meeting’ said that the headline inflation is likely to witness a spike in the near months on account of supply disruptions due to adverse weather conditions. It said there are risks from the impact of the skewed south-west monsoon so far, a possible El Nino event and upward pressures on global food prices due to geopolitical hostilities.
Traders overlooked Finance Secretary T V Somanathan’s statement that India will continue to clock the highest growth rate among the top five economies in the world in the foreseeable future and asked Indian diaspora to act as a catalyst and supplement government efforts in making India the biggest opportunity. Index continued to trade in deep red in afternoon session, as sentiments remained downbeat with a new report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) showing that the increased cost-of-living crisis sparked by surging inflation last year, combined with the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, is continuing to push people in Asia and the Pacific into extreme poverty. In last leg of trade, index slipped near day’s low point and settled below 19300 level.
All the sectorial indices ended in red. The top gainers from the F&O segment were Indiabulls Housing Finance, Vodafone Idea and Sun Tv Network. On the other hand, the top losers were GMR Airports Infrastructure, Syngene International and IndiaMART InterMESH. In the index option segment, maximum OI continues to be seen in the 19400 - 19600 calls and 18900 - 19100 puts indicating this is the trading range expectation.
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