Nifty ends higher amid optimism over ongoing Q2 earnings

17 Oct 2025 Evaluate

Extending its gaining steak for third straight session, Indian equity benchmark -- Nifty -- ended higher with notable gains on Friday amid rebound optimum over ongoing Q2 earnings and hopes for further monetary rate cut in coming months. Index made a negative start following broadly negative cues from other Asian markets. Soon, index gained traction and offset earlier losses. Sentiments turned positive as Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said that India has implemented a number of free trade agreements with developed nations and is in active dialogue for such pacts with nations including the US, Oman, and the EU. Further, continued foreign institutional investors (FIIs) inflows kept investors sentiment upbeat. FIIs were net buyers of equity shares worth Rs 997.29 crore, as per exchange data. In late afternoon session, index saw some profit taking but eventually added some gains again and continued to trade in green till the end of the session and closed above 25700 mark.

Traders were seen piling up positions in FMCG, Consumer Durables and Pharma stocks, while selling was witnessed in IT, Media and Metal. The top gainers from the F&O segment were Delhivery, Asian Paints and Laurus Labs. On the other hand, the top losers were Wipro, Yes Bank and Mphasis. 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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