Nifty ends on higher note on Friday

03 Nov 2023 Evaluate

Indian equity benchmark -- Nifty -- ended Friday’s trading session in a positive terrain led by gains in Realty, Consumer Durables, Oil & Gas and Auto stocks. Index made a gap-up opening, as traders took some support with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s statement that India will work closely with Sri Lanka to deepen their civilisational ties, with connectivity as a new focus area. Traders overlooked a survey showing India’s services sector activity grew at the slowest pace in the last seven months in October. The S&P Global India Services Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell to 58.4 last month from September's 61.0. Index continued to trade on a higher note till end of the day, as sentiments remained up-beat amid positive global signals on the back of growing bets that US benchmark interest rates have peaked. Traders got encouragement with United States (US) Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s statement that Washington is increasing its trade with countries like India, Vietnam and Mexico reducing its dependence on China.

All the sectorial indices ended in green. The top gainers from the F&O segment were Apollo Hospitals Enterprise, Dr. Lal PathLabs and Container Corporation of India. On the other hand, the top losers were Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company, Bajaj Finserv and MRF. 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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