Indian equity indices ended Monday’s session in green. The Sensex closed above 61,800 and the Nifty 50 settled above 18,400. The top gainers of the BSE Sensex were Mahindra & Mahindra (up 2.97%), Power Grid (up 2.65%), Bharti Airtel (up 2.31%), Bajaj Finserv (up 2.07%) and HDFC (up 1.75%) while TCS (down 1.07%), Infosys (down 0.81%), Tata Motors (down 0.80%), Sun Pharma (down 0.63%) and IndusInd Bank (down 0.47%) were the top laggards.
Indian stock market
The BSE Sensex rose 468.38 points or 0.76%, settling at 61,806.19 while the NSE Nifty 50 climbed 151.45 points or 0.83% to 18,420.45. In the sectoral indices, Nifty IT dropped 0.51% while Bank Nifty rose 0.45%.
European Markets
England’s FTSE100 was trading at 7,371.20, up 39.54 points or 0.54% at 3:20 PM (IST). Europe’s Euronext100 was up 9.48 points or 0.76% at 1,244.02. France’s CAC was trading 47.09 points or 0.73% higher at 6,499.72. Germany’s DAX was up 69.93 points or 0.50% at 13,963.00.
US Markets
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell 281.76 points or 0.85% to 32,920.46 on Friday. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 105.11 points or 0.97% to 10,705.41 and the S&P 500 dipped 43.39 points or 1.11% to end at 3,852.36.
Rupee movement
The Indian rupee appreciated 0.21% or 0.17 to 82.6987 against the US dollar at 3:30 PM (IST).
Gold, Silver
Gold futures on the multi-commodity exchange for February delivery were trading at 54,479.00 up 179 points or 0.33% while Silver futures for March delivery were down 420 points or 0.62% at 68,070.00 at 3:30 PM (IST).
Crude oil
WTI Crude futures for January delivery were up 0.90% at $74.93 while Brent Crude futures for February delivery were trading 0.92% higher at $79.77 at 3:30 PM (IST).
Cryptocurrency
Bitcoin (BTC) at 3:30 PM (IST) was trading at $16,768.67, up by 0.34% in the last 24 hours. Its total market cap is $322,573,784,500. Ethereum (ETH) is trading at$1,185.71, up by 0.57% in the last 24 hours. It has a total market cap of $145,058,396,365.