Nifty ends marginally lower on Wednesday

24 Dec 2025 Evaluate

Indian equity benchmark -- Nifty -- ended marginally lower on Wednesday. Despite making cautious start soon index gained some traction following broadly positive cues from other Asian markets. Sentiments were upbeat as Reserve Bank of India (RBI) planned to conduct Open Market Operations (OMO) purchase and dollar-rupee swap auction from December 29, 2025 to January 22, 2026, to boost liquidity in the banking system. Meanwhile, some encouragement came with Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal’s statement that India actively engaged in trade discussions with the US, and hopes to conclude the talks ‘sooner than later’ in a manner that restores deeper market access for domestic exporters. However, in afternoon session, market wiped out all their gains and entered into red terrain. Market participants opted to book profit at higher levels and avoided risky bids ahead of the Christmas holiday. In dying hour of trade, Nifty extended its losses and ended below 26,150 mark.

Most of the sectorial indices ended in red except Media, Realty and Metal stocks. The top gainers from the F&O segment were Manappuram Finance, IIFL Finance and Nuvama Wealth Management. On the other hand, the top losers were HFCL, Coforge and BSE. In the index option segment, maximum OI continues to be seen in the 26100 - 26300 calls and 25900 - 26100 puts indicating this is the trading range expectation.

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