Author: Partha Halder
Dalal Street finished Monday with a yawn and a sigh of relief.
Indian benchmarks ended higher on Thursday, breaking a six-day losing streak, but the gap between the Sensex and Nifty told the real story of the day — expiry volatility turbocharged by SEBI’s new closing auction.
Dalal Street went into defensive mode on Tuesday. A day after a record closing-auction surge, the Nifty 50 and Sensex both ended in the red as traders trimmed risk ahead of weekly derivatives expiry and digested the impact of SEBI’s new settlement mechanism.
Indian markets finished in the green on Friday, capping July with a second straight month of gains. The rally was less about domestic euphoria and more about global reallocation — money leaving crowded AI trades and landing in India.
Regular market timers on Dalal Street bore witness to an absolute masterclass in technical momentum on August 3, 2026. Unwinding weeks of macro anxiety, the benchmark NSE Nifty 50 posted an explosive 390.70-point surge, climbing 1.60% to settle at a powerful 24,774.30.
Indian markets shrugged off early nerves from a fresh flare-up in the Middle East to close with modest gains on Thursday, as domestic earnings and steady foreign inflows helped offset global headwinds.
Indian equities surged on Wednesday with a broad-based rally, as bargain hunters returned to IT and financials ahead of the US Federal Reserve decision. Both benchmarks logged their best single-day gains in over a week, shrugging off fresh geopolitical noise from the Middle East.
India’s equity benchmarks took a breather on Tuesday, July 28, 2026. After snapping a 5-day losing streak on Monday, both indices drifted lower in a choppy session.
Dalal Street shrugged off a week of jitters on Monday, staging its sharpest single-day comeback in a month as a twin tailwind — falling crude and a pause in US-Iran hostilities — lured buyers back in droves.
Indian stocks closed deep in red on Thursday, extending losses for a fifth straight session as oil’s spike above $100/barrel and fresh geopolitical flare-ups in West Asia wiped out a mid-day recovery. Benchmarks posted their worst week in four months, with investors dumping risk ahead of quarterly earnings and a potential rate hike cycle.