Nifty snaps 2-day losing streak on Monday

16 Feb 2026 Evaluate

Indian equity benchmark -- Nifty settled with strong gains of nearly a percent on Monday, as bulls opted to buy fundamentally strong stocks at lower level. Index made a cautious start and turned volatile during early deals amid concerns over AI disruptions. Soon, index wiped out all losses and gained some traction as traders took encouragement with UK’s Trade Commissioner for South Asia Harjinder Kang’s statement that the India and UK share a dynamic and forward-looking partnership built on trust, collaboration, and shared ambition. He said 2025 year can be noted as a milestone year in UK India relations, marked by the signing of a Free Trade Agreement, a shared India-UK Vision 2035, and reciprocal visits by Prime Ministers Keir Starmer and Narendra Modi to each other’s countries. Meanwhile, market participants took note of Union Minister Piyush Goyal’s statement that the interim trade agreement reached between the Centre and the US will cover India’s energy requirements and enable the country to obtain crude oil at more competitive rates. In second half of the session, market started climbing higher to touched its intraday high point and ended below 25,700 mark.

Most of the sectorial indices ended in green except Auto and Media stocks. The top gainers from the F&O segment were GMR Airports, Power Grid Corporation of India and Torrent Pharmaceuticals. On the other hand, the top losers were BSE, Inox Wind and Angel One. 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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