Indian equity benchmark -- Nifty -- ended Monday’s trading session in a positive terrain, led by heavyweight stocks. Index made an optimistic start, as some support came after the Income-Tax (I-T) Department’s latest data showed that India’s net direct tax collection, after adjusting for refunds, grew 18.35 per cent to Rs 11.3 trillion between April 1 and October 10 of FY25. In the same period last year, tax collection stood at Rs 9.51 trillion. Traders largely overlooked the government data showing that India’s industrial production turned negative as it contracted by 0.1 per cent in August, mainly due to a decline in the mining and power generation sectors’ output, in addition to an almost flat expansion in the manufacturing sector.
In afternoon session, index extended its gains and remained higher till end of the session, as traders took support with Secretary of the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Amardeep Singh Bhatia, stating that the government is targeting to provide access to the PM GatiShakti national master plan (NMP) portal to the private sector this year, and discussions are underway for details. He said there are some layers of data, which are sensitive in nature on the NMP and those should not be exposed. Index participants ignored report that India’s wholesale inflation based on wholesale price index (WPI) increased to 1.84% in September 2024 from a four-month low of 1.31% it had hit in the previous month due to increase in prices of food articles, food products, other manufacturing, manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers & semi-trailers, manufacture of machinery & equipment, etc.
Most of the sectorial indices ended in green except Media, Metal and Oil & Gas stocks. The top gainers from the F&O segment were Federal Bank, Wipro and Oberoi Realty. On the other hand, the top Tata Chemicals, Colgate-Palmolive (India) and Bandhan Bank. 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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