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Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty surged successful aboriginal commercialized connected Monday (May 25, 2026) supported by a crisp correction successful crude lipid prices and a rally successful planetary markets amid improving sentiment surrounding the U.S.-Iran negotiations.
The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 908.98 points to 76,317.85 successful aboriginal trade. The 50-share NSE Nifty surged 262.65 points to 23,977.70.
From the 30-Sensex firms, Mahindra & Mahindra, HDFC Bank, Bajaj Finance, Bajaj Finserv, Larsen & Toubro, and InterGlobe Aviation were among the biggest winners.
Tata Consultancy Services and Sun Pharma were the laggards.
Brent crude, the planetary lipid benchmark, tanked 5.58% to commercialized astatine $97.76 per barrel.
"We are starting the week connected a affirmative note. Crude has dipped $5 to beneath $100 connected expectations that U.S. and Iran are adjacent to a deal. The marketplace volition hold and ticker for clarity and certainty since galore akin expectations person been belied since the commencement of the war. If this expected woody holds and crude drifts down, that tin crook retired to beryllium turning constituent for the market," V K Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist, Geojit Investments Ltd, said.
In Asian markets, Japan's Nikkei 225 scale and Shanghai's SSE Composite scale were trading higher. Markets were closed successful South Korea and Hong Kong owed to holidays.
U.S. markets ended successful affirmative territory connected Friday.
Crude lipid prices person corrected sharply, marking a important pullback from caller highs supra the USD 100-105 zone, Ponmudi R, CEO of Enrich Money, an online trading and wealth-tech firm, said.
"The diminution successful lipid prices is being viewed arsenic a meaningful affirmative for India's macroeconomic outlook, arsenic softer vigor prices assistance easiness concerns astir inflation, import costs and firm profitability," helium added.
Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) offloaded equities worthy ₹4,440.47 crore connected Friday, according to speech data.
On Friday, the Sensex climbed 231.99 points, oregon 0.31%, to settee astatine 75,415.35. The Nifty edged higher by 64.60 points, oregon 0.27%, to extremity astatine 23,719.30.
