Nifty extends gains for third straight session on Wednesday

19 Mar 2025 Evaluate

Indian equity benchmark -- Nifty -- extended its gains for third consecutive session to close in green terrain on Wednesday. Index made flat-to-positive start with mild volatility as investors were cautious ahead of US Federal Reserve's policy announcement and its significant impact on economy. But soon, market recovered as market participants took note of FII data that shown Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) purchased equities worth Rs 694.57 crore on a net basis on Tuesday. Sentiments remained upbeat as Reserve Bank of India announced a fresh open market operation to purchase government securities worth Rs 50000 crore on March 25 to boost liquidity in the market. Also, the India proposed 12 per cent safeguard duty on steel imports, including countries like China and Vietnam.

Market continued higher trade in late afternoon session and closed above 22,900 mark. Traders took support from Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal’s statement that India and New Zealand were working to finalizing a mutually beneficial Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The two countries had announced the launch of negotiations for an FTA earlier this week.

Most of the sectorial indices ended in green except FMCG and IT stocks. The top gainers from the F&O segment were PB Fintech, Max Healthcare Institute, and Housing & Urban Development Corporation. On the other hand, the top losers were The Phoenix Mills, Tech Mahindra and LTIMindtree. 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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