Nifty breaks 2-day rally on Friday

24 Jan 2025 Evaluate

Indian equity benchmark -- Nifty -- ended Friday's trading session in a negative territory. Index made a negative start, amid foreign fund outflows. The Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) remained net sellers on the 15th consecutive day as they sold equities worth Rs 5,462.52 crore on January 23. Sentiments were cautious as Moody's Ratings said the Indian rupee has depreciated by around 5 per cent in the last two years and has fallen by 20 per cent in the last five years making it one of the weakest performing currencies in South and South East Asia.  Going forward, index witnessed volatility during the day and finally ended in red, as sentiments got hit after the latest HSBC ‘flash’ PMI data report, compiled by S&P Global, has showed that Indian private sector companies started 2025 with a slowdown in growth, amid slower growth in new business intakes and aggregate output. A stronger expansion in the manufacturing industry was more-than-offset by a loss of growth momentum in the service economy.

Most of the sectorial indices ended in red except FMCG and IT stocks. The top gainers from the F&O segment were Laurus Labs, Mphasis and Hindustan Unilever. On the other hand, the top losers were Cyient, Prestige Estates Projects and Syngene International. In the index option segment, maximum OI continues to be seen in the 23900 - 24100 calls and 22900 - 23100 puts indicating this is the trading range expectation.

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