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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.
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Indian equities began the first trading day of June with a stumble, surrendering early morning…
Indian equities kicked off the first trading session of June on a thoroughly fractured note on Monday, June 1, 2026, as a sudden bout of aggressive, late-afternoon profit booking wiped out a spectacular morning rally. The BSE Sensex plunged 508.40 points from its intraday highs to settle at 74,267.34, while the NSE Nifty 50 surrendered the psychological 23,700 mount, sliding 165.15 points to close at 23,382.60. The index collapse stood in stark contrast to early-morning optimism fueled by the commencement of critical four-day India-U.S. trade negotiations and a robust 2% surge in IT bellwethers like Infosys and TCS. The market architecture buckled post-noon as heavyweight financial and FMCG anchors faced steep liquidations, complicated by lingering regional anxieties over stalled U.S.-Iran peace talks and a fresh 2% spike in global crude oil prices. In corporate news, InterGlobe Aviation (IndiGo) managed an isolated counter-rally of 3.87% despite reporting a staggering ₹2,536.3 crore net loss for Q4 FY26 due to severe operational bottlenecks, as domestic institutional investors aggressively built defensive positions around broader mid-cap and small-cap segments.
Dalal Street concluded a tumultuous month on a thoroughly bruised note on Friday, May 29, 2026, as a violent, vertical selloff in the final hour of trade wiped out more than ₹3.5 lakh crore of investor wealth. The BSE Sensex disintegrated post-2:30 p.m., plummeting 1,092.05 points to settle at 74,775.74, while the NSE Nifty 50 crashed 359.40 points to close at 23,547.75—sealing deep monthly losses of 2.8% and 1.9% respectively. The multi-pronged afternoon panic was triggered by a dual macro blow: the execution of MSCI’s scheduled May index rebalancing, which aggressively trimmed India’s weight in the Emerging Markets index to 11.2% to spark severe foreign institutional capital flight, coupled with a cautious warning from U.S. Vice President JD Vance that a permanent West Asia ceasefire and nuclear memorandum are “not there yet.” Heavyweight financial and technology anchors led the bloodbath, completely clouding an isolated 22% monthly counter-rally in Adani Enterprises after U.S. legal entities systematically quashed all corporate fraud allegations against the group.
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