Indian equity benchmark -- Nifty -- ended near day’s high point on Monday, led by gains in PSU Bank, Metal and Auto stocks. Index made an optimistic start, as investors took encouragement with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s statement that India’s external debt of $624.7 billion at March-end 2023 with a debt-service ratio of 5.3 per cent is within the comfort zone and modest from a cross-country perspective. Some support also came in as the Reserve Bank said India’s forex reserves jumped by $4.039 billion to $598.897 billion for the week ended September 1. In the previous reporting week, the overall reserves had dropped by $30 million to $594.858 billion.
Index continued to trade on a higher note in afternoon session, as sentiments remained upbeat on private report that India is well placed to benefit from geopolitical and economic trends that are driving the diversification of Asia's manufacturing supply chain and it is also the country's manufacturing moment. Further, support also came in as India and Brazil on Sunday agreed to work together for the expansion of India-Mercosur preferential trade agreement (PTA) to further promote economic ties. In last leg of trade, index magnified its gains to end at fresh record closing high, as traders went for fundamentally strong stocks.
Most of the sectorial indices ended in green except Media stock. The top gainers from the F&O segment were Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone, Vodafone Idea and Canara Bank. On the other hand, the top losers were Bharat Heavy Electricals, PVR INOX and Birlasoft. In the index option segment, maximum OI continues to be seen in the 20400 - 20600 calls and 19400 - 19600 puts indicating this is the trading range expectation.
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