Nifty zooms on Monday amid ease in geopolitical tensions

12 May 2025 Evaluate

Indian equity benchmark -- Nifty -- closed the trading session at near day’s high on Monday amid ease in geopolitical tensions. Index made a gap-up opening after India-Pakistan agreed for ceasefire on Saturday, after days of attacks and retaliatory strikes. Also, positive cues from other Asian counterparts boosted investors’ sentiments. Index continued gaining traction as investors took some support of global sovereign credit rating agency, Morningstar DBRS, report that they upgraded India’s Long-Term Foreign and Local Currency - Issuer Ratings from BBB (low) to BBB with a Stable trend. India’s Short-Term Foreign and Local Currency Issuer Ratings were also upgraded to R-2 (high) from R-2 (middle) with a Stable trend.

In afternoon session, index magnified its gains amid positive US-China trade talks. US decided to cut tariffs on Chinese goods from 145 per cent to 30 per cent for 90 days, while China reduced tariffs on US goods from 125 per cent to 10 percent. In last leg of the trade, index add more gains and closed above 24,900 mark.

All sectorial indices ended in green. The top gainers from the F&O segment were HFCL, Hindustan Copper and Escorts Kubota. On the other hand, the top losers were IndusInd Bank, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries and Solar Industries India. In the index option segment, maximum OI continues to be seen in the 24400 - 24600 calls and 23900 - 24100 puts indicating this is the trading range expectation.

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