Indian equity benchmark -- Nifty -- ended Thursday’s trading session at all-time closing high, as traders react to a key US inflation report that showed a bigger than expected increase in core inflation, raising expectations for a quarter-point rate cut at the US Fed's monetary policy meeting next week. Index made an optimistic start, as traders took some support with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s statement the Union government is implementing various schemes to encourage the growth and development of MSME (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) sector across the country. She said these schemes include areas of credit support, formalization, technological assistance, infrastructure development, skill development and training and market assistance for the MSMEs.
Index continued to trade higher in noon deals, as sentiments were upbeat with the Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Hardeep Singh Puri’s statement that India has a natural advantage in producing Green Hydrogen due to the low cost and abundance of solar energy and investments in the power grid. He added India is poised to lead the global green energy demand and the rising domestic demand across diverse sectors. Traders took note of report that India and China discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in the civil aviation sector, including the resumption of direct flights between the two countries. In last leg of trades, index magnified its gains to end at life-time high point as investors preferred to buy fundamentally strong stocks.
All the sectorial indices ended in green. The top gainers from the F&O segment were Can Fin Homes, L&T Finance and National Aluminium Company. On the other hand, the top losers Granules India, Biocon and Apollo Tyres. In the index option segment, maximum OI continues to be seen in the 25900 - 26100 calls and 24900 - 25100 puts indicating this is the trading range expectation.
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