Bears hold grip over market; Nifty plunges 1.30%

13 Feb 2026 Evaluate

Nifty continued its pessimistic trade for second consecutive day and ended the session below its crucial 25,500 mark on Friday. Index made a gap-down start and continued its choppy trade throughout the day amid continued sell-off in IT stocks. Sentiments were downbeat due to fresh concerns about AI disruptions to traditional business models weighing on several sectors, such as financial, transportation and logistics as well as commercial real estate companies. Meanwhile, traders overlooked India’s retail inflation data which stood at 2.75 per cent in January under the new series of All India Consumer Price Index (CPI), with 2024 as the base year. Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran said that the new CPI series will improve the quality of data used in formulating monetary and fiscal policies.

All sectorial indices ended in red. The top gainers from the F&O segment were Bajaj Finance, Piramal Pharma and Eicher Motors. On the other hand, the top losers were Muthoot Finance, Alkem Laboratories and NMDC. In the index option segment, maximum OI continues to be seen in the 25900 - 26100 calls and 25400 - 25600 puts indicating this is the trading range expectation.

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