Diwali Muhurat trading today: This is what the trading setup looks like

Indian markets showed the positive momentum, driven by better-than-expected Q2 results from major companies and festival optimism. Positive global cues further boosted investor sentiment, with US-China trade stories easing and European markets rallying, led by defense stocks. In today’s session, trading will be symbolic and short for about an hour on the occasion of Diwali.

STATE OF THE MARKETS

Tech View: The technical situation remains positive as long as the index remains above 25,700, below which it may return to consolidation.

India VIX: India VIX, a measure of fear in the markets, fell 2.3% to the level of 11.36.

The MSCI index of shares from the Asia-Pacific region outside Japan was 0.8 percent higher

Japan’s Nikkei rose 0.8% Australia’s ASX 200 gained 0.68% New Zealand’s DJ rose 0.15%

South Korea’s Kospi rose 0.51%

China’s Shanghai rose 1.20%

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose 1.69%

US stocks

Dow Jones rose 1.12%

S&P 500 rose 1.07%

Nasdaq rose 1.37%

Dollar rises 0.05%

The dollar index rose 0.14%

The euro fell to $1.16 USD

The pound fell lower to $1.33 USD

The yen gained at 151.12 per dollar

Yuan exchanged hands against the dollar on 7/11

Oil falls

Oil prices fell 0.24%

Brent crude futures fell 0.68%

Shares in F&O ban today

1) Samman capital

2) RBL bank

Securities in the ban period under the F&O segment include companies in which the security has exceeded 95% of the market-wide position limit.

FII/DII action

Foreign portfolio investors bought net shares worth Rs 790 crore on Monday. DIIs, meanwhile, were net buyers at Rs 2,485 crore.

Rupee

The rupee rose 9 paise to 87.93 against the US dollar on Monday, supported by foreign fund inflows and lower crude oil prices.