Indian stock markets closed higher on Tuesday following the gains in the late afternoon trade with Sensex rising over 100 points and Nifty nearing the 10,250-level at the close before the commencement of RBI’s first bi-monthly policy meeting in FY19 starting tomorrow. All the sectoral indices of National Stock Exchange ended in green barring the Nifty IT index with PSU banking index surging the most.

Leading stock exchange BSE will auction investment limits for foreign investors to purchase government bonds worth over Rs 11,000 crore tomorrow.

The auction for investment limits for such securities has been receiving a good response from foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) in recent past.

The BSE Sensex slumped 206 points in see-saw trade today to close below the 33,000-mark on the last trading session of 2017-18 but finished the fiscal with a gain of 11.30 per cent.

Besides weak global cues, squaring-up of bets by investors due to end of March month expiry in the derivatives segment halted its two-session winning run, brokers said.

Snapping its two-session rising streak, the benchmark BSE Sensex fell over 150 points in early trade today as investors offloaded positions ahead of March F&O expiry and financial year ending.

A weak trend at other Asian bourses after a sharp fall on Wall Street, driven by technology stocks, also weighed on market sentiment here.

The benchmark Sensex extended yesterday’s gains by rising over 200 points in early trade, tracking firm global cues on reports of trade negotiations between the US and China, easing fears of a trade war.

Investor sentiment was buoyed after the government announced borrowing of 2.88 lakh crore in the April-September period of 2018-19, lower than 3.72 lakh crore it had borrowed in the first half of the current fiscal, and introduce bonds linked to CPI or retail inflation.

Mumbai: Benchmark indices BSE Sensex and NSE’s Nifty 50 plunged to five-month lows on Friday as jittery investors rushed to sell shares on heightened fears of a trade war after US President Donald Trump announced tariffs on up to $50 billion of Chinese imports. The sharp sell-off in Indian markets was part of the global meltdown, as global risk aversion intensified.

Benchmark indices on Friday witnessed a massive decline over global trade war fears.

The escalating tensions between Beijing and Washington sent shivers through financial markets, as investors foresaw dire consequences for the global economy if trade barriers start going up.

Key indices on Thursday gained strength after the federal reserve hiked rates as widely expected.

The 30-share BSE Sensex was up 138.34 points at 33,274.52 and the 50-share NSE Nifty rose 49.40 points to 10,204.70.

The Sensex on Monday dropped below the 200-day moving average (DMA) — a key technical support level — for the first time since November 2016. Further, 18 of the 30 scrips of the Sensex are currently trading below their 200-DMA, indicating a broad-based weakness. Volatility could also be on the rise as the VIX index has surged 25 per cent this year.

The current bout of selling in the market was started in early February. It was triggered by a global sell-off due to hardening of US bond yields.

The benchmark BSE Sensex turned choppy in early trade today amid weak global cues and a widened current account deficit, which rose to 2 % of the GDP at $ 13.5 billion in the December quarter.

The 30-share index rebounded by 99.79 points in opening deals only to turn choppy thereafter. The gauge was trading 32.96 points, or 0.10 %, lower at 33,143.04. It had lost 741.94 points in the previous four sessions.

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