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Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty ended little successful a volatile commercialized connected Wednesday (December 24, 2025) arsenic trading volumes remained subdued amid the year-end holiday-shortened week and mixed trends successful planetary markets.
The 30-share BSE Sensex dropped by 116.14 points, oregon 0.14%, to settee astatine 85,408.70. During the day, it deed a precocious of 85,738.18 and a debased of 85,342.19.
The 50-share NSE Nifty edged little by 35.05 points, oregon 0.13%, to 26,142.10.
From the 30-Sensex firms, InterGlobe Aviation, Sun Pharma, Asian Paints, Reliance Industries, Hindustan Unilever and Tata Steel were among the biggest laggards.
However, Trent, UltraTech Cement, Maruti and Power Grid were among the gainers.
In Asian markets, South Korea's Kospi and Japan's Nikkei 225 scale ended little portion Shanghai's SSE Composite scale and Hong Kong's Hang Seng settled successful affirmative territory.
European markets were trading marginally higher. U.S. markets ended higher connected Tuesday (December 23).
"Indian equities moved mostly sideways successful a holiday-shortened week, with trading volumes remaining subdued arsenic the twelvemonth draws to a adjacent - a inclination mirrored crossed broader Asian markets. The RBI's precocious announced liquidity initiatives, including Open Market Operations (OMOs) and a USD/INR buy-sell swap, are expected to amended systemic liquidity and assistance stabilise currency volatility," Vinod Nair, Head of Research, Geojit Investments Limited, said.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) connected Tuesday (December 23, 2025) said it volition acquisition authorities securities worthy ₹2 lakh crore and behaviour a $10 cardinal buy/sell dollar-rupee swap auction to inject liquidity successful the banking system.
The OMO acquisition and swap auctions volition beryllium conducted betwixt December 29, 2025 and January 22, 2026.
Announcing the decision, the RBI said it volition proceed to show evolving liquidity and marketplace conditions and instrumentality measures arsenic due to guarantee orderly liquidity conditions.
The latest announcement comes days aft the RBI conducted ₹1 lakh crore OMO acquisition auctions of Government of India securities and USD/INR buy/sell swap auction of $5 cardinal for a tenor of 3 years.
Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) offloaded equities worthy ₹1,794.80 crore connected Tuesday (December 23), according to speech data. Domestic organization investors, however, remained buyers arsenic they bought equities worthy ₹3,812.37 crore.
Brent crude, the planetary lipid benchmark, climbed 0.18%, up astatine $62.49 per barrel.
Snapping the two-day gaining streak, the Sensex connected Tuesday dipped 42.64 points oregon 0.05% to settee astatine 85,524.84. The Nifty ended marginally up by 4.75 points, oregon 0.02%, to 26,177.15.
