Nifty February futures trade at discount; India VIX spurts 23%
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Reliance Industries (RIL) and Tata Steel most active in futures segment.
The Nifty February 2022 futures were at 16,809, a discount of 33.80 points as compared with the Nifty's closing of 16,842.80 in the cash market.
Turnover on the National Stock Exchange's futures & options (F&O) segment was Rs 68.51 lakh crore compared with Rs 54.38 lakh crore reported in the previous session.
In the cash market, the Nifty 50 index dropped 531.95 points or 3.06% to settle at 16,842.80.
The NSE's India VIX, a gauge of market's expectation of volatility over the near term, soared 23% at 22.9775.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Reliance Industries (RIL) and Tata Steel were the top traded individual stock futures contracts in F&O segment of NSE.
The February 2022 F&O contracts expires on 24 February 2022.
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