Buoyed by positive international cues, India’s equity benchmarks opened higher on Tuesday. Sensex jumped 323.83 points (0.43%) to 75,826.68, and Nifty rose 84.40 points (0.36%) to 23,493.20 at the market open.
Early trading saw metals and defense sectors taking charge, positioning Nifty Metal and Nifty Defense as leading gainers. Other green zones included commodities, energy, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, and infrastructure. However, IT, PSU banking, oil & gas, automobiles, FMCG, services, and real estate underperformed in red.
Sensex heavyweights like IndiGo, BEL, Asian Paints, Bharti Airtel, Tata Steel, Sun Pharma, Maruti Suzuki, ICICI Bank, NTPC, M&M, Power Grid, and Axis Bank posted gains. Losers featured Infosys, HCL Tech, Titan, UltraTech Cement, Trent, TCS, HUL, HDFC Bank, ITC, SBI, and Bajaj Finserv.
Midcaps and smallcaps mirrored the trend with modest advances: Nifty Midcap 100 up 0.08% at 54,663, and Nifty Smallcap 100 up 0.08% at 15,822.
BSE’s overall participation leaned positive, with over half the stocks (51.48%) in green, against 43.78% in red and a small fraction flat.
Overseas, Asian bourses were mostly upbeat except Shanghai, which slipped. Wall Street ended Monday strongly, Dow +0.83%, Nasdaq +1.22%.
FIIs persisted with net selling of Rs 9,365.52 crore, but DIIS stepped in with Rs 12,593.36 crore purchases, balancing the ledger and sustaining market resilience.