Overview
- The Sensex rose 545.52 points to 85,220.60 and the Nifty added 190.75 points to 26,129.60, a near 1% daily gain.
- Domestic institutional investors were net buyers of Rs 6,159.81 crore as foreign investors sold Rs 3,844.02 crore, exchange data showed.
- Value buying and short covering concentrated gains in oil and gas, energy, metals, consumer durables, utilities and PSU banks, with IT and telecom lagging.
- Volatility cooled with India VIX slipping below 9.5, with traders also pointing to a mild crude pullback as a support for sentiment.
- For 2025 the Sensex rose 9% and the Nifty gained 10.5% as BSE market capitalisation swelled by about Rs 33.84 lakh crore, even as the rupee closed near 89.88 per dollar after a 5% annual slide.