Nifty snaps 3-day losing streak on Friday

18 Oct 2024 Evaluate

Indian equity benchmark -- Nifty -- ended Friday’s trading session near day’s high point. Index made negative start, as trades were cautious with the exchange data showing Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) offloaded equities worth Rs 7,421.40 crore on Thursday. Traders were concerned as a report by the State Bank of India (SBI) stated that India's imported inflation reached a 13-month high in September 2024, growing by 2 per cent. Traders overlooked World Bank president Ajay Banga’s statement that India's growth rate is the shiniest part in the global economy. He noted that a lot of this is driven by the domestic market. 

However, index recovered from earlier losses to trade in green in afternoon session, as traders took support after Direct tax collections have surged 182 per cent to over Rs 19.60 lakh crore in 2023-24 in the 10-year period of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government. The latest ‘Time Series Data’ released by the income tax department showed that the corporate tax collections more than doubled to over Rs 9.11 lakh crore in 10 years to 2023-24 fiscal. Personal income tax mop up grew close to four-fold to Rs 10.45 lakh crore during the period. In last leg of trade, index extended its gains to end near day’s high point and settled above 24850 mark.  

Most of the sectorial indices ended in red except IT, FMCG and Oil & Gas stocks. The top gainers from the F&O segment were Axis Bank, Jindal Steel and Power and Multi Commodity Exchange of India. On the other hand, the top losers Manappuram Finance, Indraprastha Gas and Mahanagar Gas. In the index option segment, maximum OI continues to be seen in the 25900 - 26100 calls and 24400 - 24600 puts indicating this is the trading range expectation.

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