Nifty extends previous session’s gain to close in green on Thursday

06 Mar 2025 Evaluate

Indian equity benchmark -- Nifty -- extended previous session’s gains and closed higher on Thursday, as optimism raised among market participants after U.S. exempted automakers from newly imposed tariffs on Mexico and Canada for one month, raising hopes for trade negotiations. Index made a positive start tracking gains in Asian counterparts coupled with falling oil prices. However, markets failed to hold their opening gains and slipped below neutral lines in early deals amid foreign fund outflows. The Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) extended their selling on tenth day on March 5 as they sold equities worth Rs 2895.04 crore. But soon market recovered, as some relief came among traders after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the Union Budget 2025-26 paves the way for a strong workforce and a growing economy with investments prioritized equally across infrastructure, industries, people, economy, and innovation. 

In afternoon session, index gained some strength, as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) came with more measures including the purchase of government bonds under open market operations (OMO) and foreign currency swaps, with an aim to ease the tight liquidity conditions in the banking system. In last leg of trade, index added more gains and closed the trading session above 22,500 mark.

Most of the sectorial indices ended in green except Realty stocks. The top gainers from the F&O segment were Jindal Stainless, Asian Paints, and Mahanagar Gas. On the other hand, the top losers were Kalyan Jewellers India, Coforge and Tech Mahindra. In the index option segment, maximum OI continues to be seen in the 30900 - 31100 calls and 21900 - 22100 puts indicating this is the trading range expectation.

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