Indian equity indices ended Friday’s session in the red territory. The Sensex closed below 60,900 while the Nifty settled below 18,200. The top gainers of the BSE Sensex were Bajaj Fiserv (up 2.21%), Titan (up 1.77%), Bajaj Finance (up 1.03%), Tata Steel (up 0.81%) and Tata Motors (up 0.57%) while ICICI Bank (down 1.74%), Bharti Airtel (down 1.56%), HDFC (down 1.44%), Larsen &Toubro (down 1.15%) and Nestle India (down 1.13%) were the top laggards.
Indian stock market
The BSE Sensex fell 293.14 points or 0.48%, settling at 60,840.74 while the NSE Nifty 50 declined 85.70 points or 0.47% to 18,105.30. In the sectoral indices, Nifty IT fell 0.23% and Nifty Bank dropped 0.61%.
Asian Markets
China’s Shanghai SE composite index ended in the positive territory, up 15.56 points or 0.51% at 3,089.26 on Friday. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose by 40.27 points or 0.20% to 19,781.41. Nikkei 225 of Japan ended flat up 0.83 points or 0.00% at 26,094.50. FTSE TWSE Taiwan 50 Index rose 46.27 points or 0.43% to 10,716.37.
European Markets
England’s FTSE100 was trading at 7,496.93, down 16.02 points or 0.21% at 3:30 PM (IST). Europe’s Euronext100 was down 8.32 points or 0.67% at 1,239.21. France’s CAC was trading 44.43 points or 0.68% lower at 6,529.04. Germany’s DAX was down 97.08 points or 0.69% at 13,974.64.
US Markets
US markets ended the overnight session in the green. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) rose 345.09 points or 1.05% to 33,220.80 on Thursday while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index rose 264.80 points or 2.59% to 10,478.09 and the S&P 500 climbed 66.06 points or 1.75% to end at 3,849.28.
Rupee movement
The Indian rupee appreciated 0.09% to 82.7350 against the US dollar at 3:55 PM (IST).
Gold, Silver
Gold futures on the multi-commodity exchange for February delivery were trading at 54880.00 down 91 points or 0.17% while Silver futures for March delivery were down 398 points or 0.57% at 69369.00 at 4:05 PM (IST).
Crude oil
WTI Crude futures for January delivery were down 0.22% at $78.23 while Brent Crude futures for February delivery were trading 0.04% lower at $83.43 at 4:05 PM (IST).
Cryptocurrency
Bitcoin (BTC) at 4:07 PM (IST) was trading at $16,521.44, down by 0.42% in the last 24 hours. Its total market cap is $317,980,244,681. Ethereum (ETH) was trading at $1,192.58, down by 0.43% in the last 24 hours. It has a total market cap of $145,943,286,068.