Indian equity benchmark -- Nifty -- recovered from previous session fall and ended Thursday’s session in positive terrain on weekly F&O expiry. After making slightly negative start, soon index turned positive and started northward journey, as traders took some support with report stating that NITI Aayog has proposed a series of measures to boost exports from micro, small and medium enterprises, including boosting e-commerce exports, creating a comprehensive trade portal, promoting ease of merchandise exports, improving access to export finance and creation of one stop information channel for exporters. In afternoon session, index touched day’s high point and remained higher till the end as sentiments remained optimistic with data showing that inflation based on wholesale price index (WPI) eased in the month of February 2024 to 0.20% from 0.27% in January, aided by decline in prices of non-food articles, coal, basic metals, other nonmetallic mineral products, fabricated metal products (except machinery & equipment), rubber & plastic products and printing & reproduction of recorded media etc.
Most of the sectorial indices ended in green except Financial Services, Private BANK and Bank stocks. The top gainers from the F&O segment were Hindustan Copper, Vodafone Idea and Adani Enterprises. On the other hand, the top losers Axis Bank, NMDC and Indusind Bank. In the index option segment, maximum OI continues to be seen in the 22900 - 23100 calls and 20900 - 21100 puts indicating this is the trading range expectation.
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