Stock Market Today 2022: Sensex rises 130 factors, Nifty settles at 17,698

Market Today, Sensex, Nifty: The benchmark fairness indices erased their losses and ended over 0.2 per cent greater on Friday amid constructive world cues.

The S&P BSE Sensex rose 130.18 factors (0.22 per cent) to finish at 59,462.78 whereas the Nifty 50 settled at 17,698.15, up 39.15 factors (0.22 per cent). Both the indices had opened marginally decrease earlier within the day and slipped as a lot as 0.37 per cent within the morning offers earlier than erasing their losses and turning constructive.

On the Sensex pack, NTPC, Tata Steel, Power Grid Corporation of India, ICICI Bank, Reliance Industries (RIL) and State Bank of India (SBI) had been the highest gainers on Friday. In distinction, Infosys, Maruti Suzuki India, Larsen & Toubro (L&T), Tech Mahindra, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries and HindusTan Unilever (HUL) had been the highest laggards.

Among sectoral indices on the NSE, Nifty Oil & Gas index rose 2.25 per cent and the Nifty Metal index climbed 1.64 per cent. On the opposite hand, Nifty IT and Nifty Pharma fell 1.15 per cent every.

In the broader market, the S&P BSE SmallCap index ended at 27,905.91, up 107.89 factors (0.39 per cent) and the S&P BSE MidCap settled at 24,765.05, up 37.67 factors (0.15 per cent).

“Return of FIIs and declining dollar index aided the market rally. While metals and oil & gas garnered buying interest, IT and pharma weighed on sentiments. Oil and gas stocks were in focus as the government diverted some natural gas from industries to city gas operators in an effort to moderate the prices of CNG and piped cooking gas,” mentioned Vinod Nair, Head of Research at Geojit Financial Services.

Going forward, traders will sit up for the retail inflation and manufacturing facility output information which can be launched later within the day.

Global Markets (from Reuters)

World shares headed for a fourth straight week of good points on Friday as traders scaled again views on how far US rates of interest and inflation can climb, whereas oil recouped a number of the earlier week’s losses. A slight easing of inflation readings drove world shares greater and capped a rising greenback this week, although a string of Fed audio system dampened expectations of the central financial institution going sluggish on additional coverage tightening.

MSCI’s world inventory index was up 0.1 per cent and was displaying a 1.8 per cent rise on the week. S&P futures gained 0.53 per cent after the S&P index closed down 0.07 per cent.

European shares rose 0.35 per cent and had been heading for weekly good points of greater than 1 per cent. Britain’s FTSE climbed 0.56 per cent and was eyeing a near-1 per cent rise on the week.

MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outdoors Japan gained 0.16 per cent, heading for a weekly achieve of 1 per cent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index rose 0.46 per cent, however Chinese blue-chip shares dipped 0.1 per cent. Japan’s Nikkei was the key outlier, surging 2.62 per cent to its highest degree since January as markets reopened following a nationwide vacation.