Indian equity benchmark -- Nifty -- ended Thursday’s trading session in a negative terrain dragged by losses in PSU Bank, FMCG and Financial Services stocks. After making a positive start, soon index slipped into negative terrain, as investors were cautious with CareEdge Ratings in its latest report stating that India’s rural demand is vulnerable and could be further impacted by the ‘dual blows’ of lower income and high food inflation owing to an erratic monsoon. Further, some cautiousness also came amid foreign fund outflows. According to the provisional data available on the NSE, foreign institutional investors (FII) sold shares worth net Rs 494.68 crore on August 30.
Index continued to trade below neutral line in afternoon session, as market participants were cautious with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its latest report stating that listed private non-financial companies’ sales growth moderated during Q1FY24. As per the data, sales growth (y-o-y) of listed private non-financial companies moderated to 2.1 per cent in Q1:2023-24 from 8.0 per cent in the previous quarter and 41.0 per cent a year ago. Meanwhile, emphasizing digital capability upgradation of Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) by November 1, 2023, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that banks should map RRBs with MSME clusters and put greater thrust on increasing network of rural branches in cluster areas identified by the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. In last leg of trade, index slipped near day’s low point and ended with losses of 93.65 points.
Most of the sectorial indices ended in red except Consumer Durables, Realty and IT. The top gainers from the F&O segment were Persistent Systems, Manappuram Finance and Birlasoft. On the other hand, the top losers were Torrent Pharmaceuticals, Power Finance Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation. In the index option segment, maximum OI continues to be seen in the 19900 - 20100 calls and 18900 - 19100 puts indicating this is the trading range expectation.
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