Stock Market Close: D-St sees best week in 2-months; Sensex up 266 pts; Nifty ends at 25,694 today

Sensex Today | Stock Market Highlights, Friday: Among the broader markets, the Nifty Midcap 100 and the Smallcap 100 indices were 0.02 per cent and 0.27 per cent down, respectively

3:46 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Market expert's view

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Indian equity markets traded with a cautious, range-bound bias today as investors digested the central bank’s decision to keep interest rates unchanged, reinforcing its preference for stability amid improving global trade visibility following recent US tariff adjustments. Sentiment, however, drew support from regulatory clarity after the RBI indicated that banks would be permitted to lend to REITs, enhancing long-term funding visibility for the real estate and credit ecosystem. On the domestic front, support also came from a slight recovery in the Indian rupee, aided by moderated corporate dollar demand, which helped ease near-term currency concerns. 

View by: Ponmudi R, CEO of Enrich Money

 

3:45 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Technical view

Stock Market LIVE Updates: During the week, the market took support near the 200-day Simple Moving Average (SMA) and bounced back sharply. However, it also registered profit booking at higher levels. Technically, on weekly charts, it has formed a bullish candle and is currently trading comfortably above the 20-day SMA, which is largely positive.

 

Kotak Securities are of the view  that the market has completed one leg of correction, and for short-term traders, 25,500 and 83,000 and 25,350 and 82,500 would act as crucial support zones. If the market succeeds in trading above these levels, it could bounce back to 25,800/83,800. A successful breakout of 25,800 and 83,800 could push the market up to 26,000-26,050 and 84,500-84,700. On the flip side, a decline below 25,350 and 82,500 would make the uptrend vulnerable.

View by:  Amol Athawale, vice president, technical research, Kotak Securities

3:41 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Nifty sectoral indices at close

Stock Market LIVE Updates: The Nifty FMCG was the best performing index at close with over 2 per cent gain.

 

3:39 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Broader markets at close

Stock Market LIVE Updates: The Nifty Midcap 100 and the Nifty Smallcap 100 ended 0.02 per cent and 0.27 per cent lower, respectively.

 

3:37 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Sensex contributors and detractors

Stock Market LIVE Updates: ITC and Kotak Mahindra Bank supported gains in the Sensex.

 

3:35 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Sensex ends higher

Stock Market LIVE Updates: The Sensex ended 0.32 per cent or 266.47 points higher at 83,580.40.

 

3:33 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Nifty ends higher

Stock Market LIVE Updates: The Nifty ended 0.12 points or 31.35 points higher at 25,674.15

 

3:18 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Jubilant Pharmova shares fall over 4% after Q3 profit declines

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Jubilant Pharmova share price fell over 4 per cent in Friday's session as the company's net profit declined in the third quarter of the current financial year (Q3FY26). The scrip fell as much as 4.4 per cent to ₹931 per share on the National Stock Exchange (NSE). READ MORE

3:10 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: What's new in InCred's high-conviction list?

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Reviewing the performance of its high-conviction ideas, InCred said Tata Motors Commercial Vehicles, GE Vernova T&D and Thyrocare Technologies have been "big outperformers to Nifty". READ MORE

3:05 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: 3 PM market update

Stock Market LIVE Updates: At 03:00 PM, the Sensex was trading 235.36 points or 0.28 per cent up at 83,549.29, and the Nifty was trading at 25,677.80, up by 35 points or 0.15 per cent.

2:54 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Physicswallah falls 4% after Q3 results

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Shares of edtech major Physicswallah fell around 4 per cent to hit an intraday low of ₹116.61 on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) after the company reported its quarterly earnings for the October to December quarter of fiscal 2026 (Q3FY26). READ MORE

2:46 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Listed companies outpace unlisted ones in corporate tax contributions

Stock Market LIVE Updates: The share of unlisted companies in corporate tax collections dropped to 47 per cent in FY25, according to data from the NSE’s Market Pulse publication. It was 55.6 per cent in FY19. Unlisted companies release financial data with a lag; the data for FY25 is becoming available now. READ MORE

2:39 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: MRF Q3FY26 profit more than doubles to ₹692 cr

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Tyre maker MRF on Friday reported a 119 per cent jump in its consolidated net profit to ₹692 crore in the third quarter of the financial year 2025-26 (Q3FY26). During the same quarter last year, profit stood at ₹315.46 crore. On a sequential basis, profit increased by 31.6 per cent from ₹525.64 crore. 

2:32 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Sai Life Sciences shares jump 8% as Q3 profit surges 86% YoY

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Shares of Sai Life Sciences Ltd. rose over 8 per cent on Friday after the company reported an 86 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) jump in the net profit for the December quarter of the current financial year (Q3-FY26).

Shares of the company rose for the second straight session and currently trade at 19 times the average 30-day trading volume, according to Bloomberg. READ MORE

2:23 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: India not selling US Treasury holdings despite forex fluctuations: RBI Guv

Stock Market LIVE Updates: India is not selling its US Treasury holdings, Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay Malhotra said at a post-policy press conference on Friday.

 

“Our forex reserves had come down, so as a result of that” all holdings change, said Malhotra. “Those are fluctuations on our day-to-day or a week-to-week basis that we give out but there is no reduction in our holdings of US treasuries.” READ MORE

2:10 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Hero MotoCorp, RVNL, 32 other stocks go ex-date next week

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Shares of Hero MotoCorp, Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders, Container Corporation of India, Power Grid Corporation of India, Rail Vikas Nigam (RVNL) and as many as 29 other companies are set to remain in the spotlight next week, from Monday, February 9, 2026, to Friday, February 13, 2026, as they have announced interim dividend rewards for their shareholders. READ MORE

2:02 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: 2 PM Market update

Stock Market LIVE Updates: At 02:00 PM, the Nifty 50 was trading 25 points or 0.1 per cent down at 25,617, and the Sensex was trading at 83,365, up by 51 points or 0.06 per cent.

1:49 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: AAVAS Financiers hits 52-week low, stock slips 7% post Q3 results

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Share price of AAVAS Financiers hit a 52-week low of ₹1,283, falling 7 per cent on the BSE in Friday’s intra-day trade after the housing finance company (HFC) announced its December 2025 quarter (Q3FY26) results. The company had declared Q3 results on Thursday after market hours.

 

The company's AUM growth moderated to 15 per cent YoY (vs. 16 per cent in Q2), led by muted disbursements of 8 per cent/10 per cent YoY/QoQ. READ MORE

1:36 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Bharti Hexacom share price jumps 6% as Q3 net profit rises 82% YoY

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Bharti Hexacom share price rose over 6 per cent on Friday after the company reported that its net profit increased 81.6 per cent on year to ₹473.7 crore in the third quarter (Q3FY26) from ₹260.9 crore in the same quarter a year ago (Q3FY25).

 

The revenue from operations increased 4.8 per cent Y-o-Y to ₹2,360 crore in the third quarter from ₹2,251 crore. READ MORE

1:24 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: IT index down 9% in 4 days; at 3-mth low; what's making the Street nervous?

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Shares of information technology (IT) companies continued to reel under pressure, falling by 2.6 per cent at 35,211.95, hitting three-month low, on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) in Friday’s intra-day trade.

Indian IT services stocks followed the global rout in technology/software/consulting and outsourcing stocks since February 4, 2026. The key catalyst was the Palantir earnings call, which highlighted how the company is upending pay per seat software (workday, ServiceNow, etc.) as well as third-party software with its own AI offerings. READ MORE

1:19 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: ITC jumps over 5%, may log biggest single-day in 5 years

Stock Market LIVE Updates: ITC stock surged 5.6 per cent to an intra-day high of ₹327.70 on the NSE backed by heavy volume in Friday's intra-day trade. In the process, the stock is seen attempting to register its biggest single-day gain in five years. The stock had gained 6.1 per cent on February 4, 2021 - its biggest single-day gain compared to todays, shows BSE historical data.

G Chokkalingam, Founder & MD of Equinomics Research says that a pullback in ITC stock was overdue, as the stock was beaten down beyond what it deserved. READ MORE

1:05 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: 'A prolonged pause on rates may already be underway'

Stock Market LIVE Updates: The robust growth momentum and favourable near-term outlook, a slight upward revision in the inflation outlook, and the upcoming changes in the new CPI and GDP series that would lead to a reassessment of the growth-inflation trajectory, likely nudged the Committee to hold steady, says Aditi Nayar of Icra Ratings. READ MORE

12:56 PM

RBI MPC Meeting Press Conference LIVE: Tech has a bearing on growth, which is materialising

12:51 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Why did bond yields rise after RBI policy?

Stock Market LIVE Updates: The RBI's current stance gives it flexibility to respond to changing liquidity conditions. Over the past few weeks, a mix of durable and short-term measures has ensured surplus liquidity, pushing overnight rates below the Repo and SDF levels.

This has improved carry in money markets and led to a 20-30 basis point fall in money market yields. However, spreads over effective policy rates are still about 50-60 basis points higher than March levels, when liquidity was in deficit.

 

Markets had expected more clarity on liquidity measures or OMOs in the policy, and in the absence of that, bond yields moved up marginally by around 3-5 basis points.

While changes in the CPI series could lift near-term inflation slightly, base effects should soften inflation over the next year. This may open limited room for a 25-basis point rate cut, though the RBI is likely to remain cautious depending on evolving Growth-Inflation dynamics.

Current spreads between the repo rate and the 10-year benchmark remain attractive versus long-term averages. Incremental flows from long-only investor categories including provident and pension funds may gradually trickle into the SLR segment over FY 2027 as against allocations concentrated towards equity during FY 2026, thereby opening up space for yields to trend lower over time.

Views by: Basant Bafna, Head – Fixed Income, Mirae Asset Investment Managers (India)

12:49 PM

RBI MPC Meeting Press Conference LIVE: Not assessed the impact of India-US trade deal, says RBI Guv

RBI MPC Meeting Press Conference LIVE: We have not assessed the impact of the India-US trade deal, says RBI Guv

These are early days, and details are yet to emerge.

That said, we have increased our GDP estimates considering all the external factors, including the Indo-US deal.

We will share our detailed view on the India-US deal in our next policy meeting.

12:39 PM

RBI MPC Meeting Press Conference LIVE: We expect the rate to stay at current levels in the near-term

RBI MPC Meeting Press Conference: Given the current state of the economy, most of the MPC members felt that the rates can stay at current levels over the next 6-9 months, RBI Guv said.

Five out of six MPC members wanted to keep the stance 'Neutral'; one wanted to change it to 'Accomodative'

By current levels, we mean at lower levels, the governor added.

12:36 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Nifty Bank trades near day's low

Stock Market LIVE Updates: The stock markets are volatile after the presentation of the RBI Policy.

The Nifty Bank index is now near the day's low level, down 0.5 per cent.

12:32 PM

RBI MPC Meeting Press Conference LIVE: MSMEs are our economy's growth engines

RBI MPC Meeting Press Conference LIVE: The limit of collateral free loans to MSME, at ₹10 lakh, has been since 2010.

We have raised the limit to ₹20 lakh to factor-in inflation.

Allowing lending to ReITs is to boost real estate lending

12:27 PM

RBI MPC Meeting Press Conference LIVE: Banks, NBFCs maintaining LTV for gold loans at the lower end

RBI MPC Meeting Press Conference LIVE: We have LTV on gold loans at 75-85 per cent.

 

Banks, NBFCs maintaining the ratio at the lower end of the range, says RBI Governor sanjay Malhotra

 

We are comfortable on gold loans

 

We have been reviewing our overall portfolio, be it gold loans, MSME loans, or personal loans. All categories show good asset quality, and there is currently no cause for concern

 

12:20 PM

RBI MPC Meeting Press Conference LIVE: Multiple deals in pipeline for the NBFC sector

RBI MPC Meeting Press Conference LIVE: We have witnessed recurring deals in the banking and NBFC space, with FDI announcements totaling around $15 billion in the pipeline