Nifty ends lower amid H-1B visa concerns

22 Sep 2025 Evaluate

Indian equity benchmark -- Nifty -- extended previous session’s losses and ended lower on Monday. Index made a gap-down start and continued to trade in red amid weak global cues and selling in IT stocks. The IT stocks came under pressure after U.S. President Donald Trump to imposed a $100000 fee on H-1B visas to protect American jobs. Further, sentiments remained pessimistic in afternoon session as India’s labour ministry in its latest data stated that retail inflation for farm and rural workers increased to 1.07 per cent and 1.26 per cent in August 2025 from 0.77 per cent and 1.01 per cent, respectively, in July. In last leg of the trade, index intensified its losses to touch day’s low levels and closed below 25,250 mark. 

Most of the sectorial indices ended in red except Media and Metal stocks. The top gainers from the F&O segment were Adani Green Energy, Adani Energy Solutions and Housing & Urban Development Corporation. On the other hand, the top losers were Kfin Technologies, Mphasis and LTIMindtree. In the index option segment, maximum OI continues to be seen in the 25900 - 26100 calls and 24900 - 25100 puts indicating this is the trading range expectation.

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