Domestic equity indices concluded Friday’s session in the red territory with Sensex settling below 60,000 and Nifty below 17,900. The top gainers of the BSE Sensex were Mahindra & Mahindra (up 1.07%), Reliance (up 1.01%), Nestle India (up 0.57%), ITC (up 0.40%) and Larsen & Toubro (up 0.23%) while TCS (down 3.03%), Bajaj Finserv (down 2.76%), IndusInd Bank (down 2.57%), Tech Mahindra (down 2.47%) and Bajaj Finance (down 1.88%) were the top laggards.
Indian stock market
The BSE Sensex fell 452.90 points or 0.75%, settling at 59,900.37 and the NSE Nifty 50 dipped 132.70 points or 0.74% to 17,859.45. In the sectoral indices, Nifty IT fell 2% and Nifty Bank dropped 0.99%.
Asian Markets
China’s Shanghai SE composite index ended in the green, rising 2.42 points or 0.08% to 3,157.64 on Friday. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell by 60.53 points or 0.29% to 20,991.64. Nikkei 225 of Japan advanced 153.05 points or 0.59% to 25,973.85. FTSE TWSE Taiwan 50 Index climbed 57.75 points or 0.53% to 10,924.94. South Korea’s KOSPI rose 25.32 points or 1.12% to 2,289.97.
European Markets
England’s FTSE100 was trading at 7,649.62, up 16.17 points or 0.21% at 03:30 PM (IST). Europe’s Euronext100 was down 0.88 points or 0.07% at 1,276.61. France’s CAC was trading 7.59 points or 0.11% higher at 6,769.09. Germany’s DAX was down 24.33 points or 0.17% at 14,411.98.
US Markets
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell 339.69 points or 1.02% to 32,930.08 on Thursday. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 153.25 points or 1.47% to 10,305.24 and the S&P 500 declined 44.87 points or 1.16% to end at 3,808.10.
Rupee movement
The Indian rupee depreciated 0.21% to 82.72 against the US dollar at 3:40 PM (IST).
Gold, Silver
Gold futures on the multi-commodity exchange for February delivery were trading at 55325.00 up 35 points or 0.06% while Silver futures for March delivery were up 343 points or 0.50% at 68421.00 at 3:45 PM (IST).
Crude oil
WTI Crude futures for February delivery were up 0.69% at $79.15 while Brent Crude futures for March delivery were trading 0.58% higher at $79.15 at 3:45 PM (IST).
Cryptocurrency
Bitcoin (BTC) at 3:45 PM (IST) was trading at $16,786.28, down by 0.21% in the last 24 hours. Its total market cap is $323,276,770,751. Ethereum (ETH) is trading at $1,248.22, down by 0.13% in the last 24 hours. It has a total market cap of $152,745,154,577.