A sharp selling in last leg of trade forced Nifty to end Monday’s trade in red. India VIX was up by 6.25%. Market made a positive start amid foreign fund inflows. Besides, traders got support as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said India’s forex reserves increased $591 million to $616.733 billion for the week ended January 26. Market maintained its gains in afternoon session, as sentiments were positive after report that India's services activity rose at the sharpest rate of expansion in January 2024. The HSBC India Services PMI came in at 61.8 in January, up from 59 in December. It is the highest since July 2023 when the PMI was 62.3. A reading above 50 shows that the sector is expanding. Traders took note of a report stating that there is no adverse impact on India's exports and imports so far due to the Red Sea crisis. Meanwhile, Revenue Secretary Sanjay Malhotra said that the government sees the average monthly Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections rising to Rs 1.8 lakh crore-1.85 lakh crore in 2024-25. However, in late afternoon session, market fell sharply and touched day’s low level as traders were cautious ahead of RBI interest rate decision on February 08.
Most of the sectorial indices ended in red except Metal, Pharma and Realty. The top gainers from the F&O segment were Mphasis, Indigo and NMDC. On the other hand, the top losers were Hindustan Copper, DLF and Metropolis Healthcare. In the index option segment, maximum OI continues to be seen in the 22950 - 23050 calls and 21300 - 21550 puts indicating this is the trading range expectation.
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